Different people are motivated differently, so I can only speak for my family.
We originally wanted to adopt children because we can't have our own.
While researching adoption, we learned about fostering.
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I just saw a thread about foster care, which did not paint an accurate picture of why children are removed, foster parent "salary", etc.
As a foster parent I have a few words about the experience.
Content and trigger warning, there will be talk of severe child abuse.
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Different people are motivated differently, so I can only speak for my family.
We originally wanted to adopt children because we can't have our own.
While researching adoption, we learned about fostering.
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Since then we have had several children come and go. Each situation was different, and I will get to that.
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We do receive money to cover some of the costs we incur, like paying for medical care, buying them clothes, etc.
It is not anywhere near the quoted $39K.
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We take kids under 3, and as any parent can tell you, diapers, clothes, food, formula, various medical costs... It all adds up really fast.
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I repeat, kids are expensive, especially the ones who come to us.
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So, why do kids come to us? Frankly, because they are in danger of dying.
A case came in where one of the kids in the house was beaten so badly they suffered permanent brain damage.
The parents were convicted of attempted murder.
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Another case, a toddler was left alone in a hotel room without food or water, and was discovered alone, dirty, hungry, and dehydrated.
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The most common reason kids come to us is because they are born addicted to drugs. They require hospitalization, and then months of treatment with methadone.
It's common that they are born, and abandoned at the hospital.
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Some kids don't return. The parents disappear, and the extended family doesn't have more room.
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Now, regarding the system, nobody that is part of the foster system comes out unscathed.
Kids suffer the most. Some return again and again. Even the ones who don't return suffer trauma that will follow them forever.
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Last week Hizbollah's finance institution Al Qard el Hasan was hacked by Spiderz. A group of people took that Data and tried to make sense out of it. Below are the findings
https://t.co/eGLqvb28o5
Loans are provided to borrowers for gold deposits or other guarantees, to the association's members and to unsecured applicants.
AQAH had a carried forward loan balance of $450 million as of December 31, 2019. This balance has been increasing at a yearly rate of 13.4%.
AQAH laundered around $475 million in 2019 in the form of disbursed loans paid to more than 20,000 borrower accounts; mostly to borrowers with gold deposits.
Deposits accounts have been offered to 307,000 members of the association, 83,000 contributors as well as to 600 companies. AQAH closed 2019 with an overall depositors accounts balance of around $500 million.
https://t.co/eGLqvb28o5
Loans are provided to borrowers for gold deposits or other guarantees, to the association's members and to unsecured applicants.
AQAH had a carried forward loan balance of $450 million as of December 31, 2019. This balance has been increasing at a yearly rate of 13.4%.
AQAH laundered around $475 million in 2019 in the form of disbursed loans paid to more than 20,000 borrower accounts; mostly to borrowers with gold deposits.
Deposits accounts have been offered to 307,000 members of the association, 83,000 contributors as well as to 600 companies. AQAH closed 2019 with an overall depositors accounts balance of around $500 million.
