There are not enough homes for every foster child, yet under the Biden administration, children were put in the system because of their parents’ beliefs about gender, said Assistant Secretary of Health Alex Adams.
Adams, who oversees the Administration for Children and Families opens in a new tabat the Department of Health and Human Services, is working to stop Child Protective Services from taking kids away from their families because of the child’s gender identity.
“When a child is removed from a family, you are inflicting permanent, irreversible harm on both the child as well as the parents,” Adams told The Daily Signal.opens in a new tab “That’s not a decision that should be made lightly, and it should be reserved to the most significant cases of abuse or neglect as judged by a court.”
For instance, Abby Martinez opens in a new tablost custody of her daughter to the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services after the girl, Yaeli, started identifying as a boy. Three years later, Yaeli committed suicide.
President Donald Trump at the State of the Union highlighted Sage Blair, who reportedly became a human trafficking victim after her school hid her transgender identity from her mother.
“One case is too many,” Adams said of family separation cases.
Adams sent letters to all 50 states telling them that under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, they cannot separate children from their parents due to the child’s gender identity.
“A state child welfare agency should respect the sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of the family,” Adams said. “No child should enter foster care because of differences in values like that.”
Adams is also making sure families aren’t prevented from fostering due to gender policies.
“Too many states have put in place requirements that foster families need to commit to affirming certain pronouns of children in their custody, that foster parents might have to commit to certain medical procedures,” Adams said. “And that’s deterring families of faith from stepping forward, from fostering as well.”
Statistically, families of faith are most likely to foster, Adams said.
“If every house of worship in the country had just one family who committed to fostering, our ratio of homes to kids would be four to one,” he said. “If we did that, we would have homes waiting on kids, not kids waiting on homes. So, we have to be very deliberate about authentically engaging with the faith-based community.”
Since Adams’ letters went out, two states have already committed to changing their policies.
Vermont sent a letter saying that they were looking at their policies and committed to changing them, while Massachusetts enacted an emergency rule.
“We’re continuing to have dialogue and continue to have a discussion internally with other units within HHS about what the most appropriate next steps would be,” he said.
If states violate sincerely held religious beliefs, the administration will look at funding and regulation changes, he said.
Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is the White House correspondent for the Daily Signal.
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal – By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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That states and schools support the LBGQIDSBKOF+++ freak show (gender identity, pronouns, surgical mutilation to name a few), and pass laws that support separating children from their parents who oppose this CRAP, is a clear “writing on the wall” that our society is morally bankrupt, and that Satan has a stronghold on our country. PRAY FOR REVIVAL AND GOD’S FORGIVENESS!!!
School s have overstepped their boundaries. They were never intended to replace Parenting. They have stepped Between parents & their children & assumed responsibilities they have no business handling. This needs to be stopped immediately! Most of Our Grandchildren are being home schooled because of the evil propaganda that is dished out in schools. They’re doing very well, enjoying the extra time with parents, and testing in the upper levels on all tests. Hopefully more parents will recognize their responsibilities to their children & remove them from public schooling.
Pray for the children…
President Trump should protect parents from losing their children because of gender identity! Biden and the Democratic Party were doing this in an effort to destroy our country as well as what our country was built on religion! President Trump needs to put an end to our domestic enemies which is the Democratic Party and their allies, this is our biggest enemy! You need to understand that the allies is a large list, the Marxist, Socialist, CCP, Muslims(Hamas) Elitists, Communist, the Media they are all hiding and waiting to attack and destroy America and the American people! We need to stand together against these domestic enemies and save our country and protect our people and our President!
State will allow a grown man, a criminal who is not interested in education, is not proficient in English enough to be in school to attend classes with the teen age girls, have them in danger to be raped and assaulted , but will remove the child from the family, because they do not want their child mutilated at the state insistence. Something is very wrong here.
I’ve heard almost my entire life that, according to Democrats, Republicans 1] hate science and 2] are obsessed with sex. Yet today’s DIMMwits propose that someone with male genitalia can suddenly “become” a girl just by “feelings.” And everything they push hardest has something to do with sex! Talk about PROJECTION!
I think this is an appropriate way to protect our children and the parents of these children.
Another harmful and disgusting thing done by the Biden Cabal. I had no idea that children were being taken away from their parents simply because there was sexual identity issue. When kids are in crisis is the worst time to remove them from a loving family!! If the radical liberal loons would stop trying to push gender identity onto our kids, things like this would not even be happening. How much more evil can these radicals become? The officials who approved this need to be prosecuted.
Blah, blah, blah. We hear stuff like this everyday, usually accompanied with the admonition from ‘teachers’ and school ‘staff’, “Don’t tell your parents that we are “helping”.
Pink Floyd had it right DECADES ago. “Hey! Teacher! Leave our kids alone!!!”
This is excellent, it’s pst due and no state or institution should be be able to remove children from there parents custody simply because We love them and don’t want irreversible harm to come to them when children have little idea what they really need or what is best for them!
That is precisely what the Democrat party does to everything they touch, permit irreversible harm. A group of psychotic pathological liars that serve only Satan
We have the Frankenstein policy from these satanic government agencies and socialists who decided to play god.
God created us and made us male and female. These ghouls have taken this madness upon themselves to alter God’s design with this transgender paganism. You cannot alter this divine design with operations and drugs that destroy the child. This is short of murder.
Where are the so-called ministers of God, conspicuous by their silence? We have resorted to following old pagan societies in their madness and will wind up like them. God’s judgment is upon this sad nation.
Thanks AMAC, for this article, I cannot imagine the hurt of separating a child from its parents, for this reason. Fostering has been the saving of children, but its complicated, now those who wish to foster/adopt will not have this needless worry, hampering their efforts. So thankful for the sanity of this decision.
I am a sub here in Texas. I got kicked out of one of the schools here because a kid said he identified as a girl and I said a boy cannot he one. These are some crazy times. Probably the Last Days. Pray for our kids and our country to return to the Lord before it is too late…
Where Biden lost countless numbers of children to child traffickers, Trump saves them. Doesn’t sound like the NAZI thing to do to me!