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A Recipe For Disaster

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 31, 2008

How to fill our prisons in 12 easy steps:

1. Abuse a child.

2. Leave him/her in the home to suffer further abuse; provide minimal services to the family. Let the abuse continue or take that child into foster care. Offer minimal/no services to family of origin.

3. Return the child to the home - where No. 1 is repeated.

4. Take the child back into foster care.

5. Repeat Nos. 3 and 4 a minimum of three or four times.

6. Don't make decisions for permanency - give parents one more chance to overcome the drug addiction, the propensity for violence, etc.

7. Repeat No. 6 over and over and over again.

8. Allow the child to age in the foster care system until he/she reaches beyond the preferred adoptable age of 5 or younger.

9. Discourage "regular" families from adopting by cutting off monthly subsidies.

10. Allow a child to "age out of foster care" with no further assistance - and, especially, no family support.

11. Let that child find love and support wherever he/she can - on the streets.

12. Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not ... Well, you get the picture.

(SISTER) CLAIRE LeBOEUF, CSC

Thonotosassa

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