AVOCACY FOR CHILDREN AND THE RELATIVES WHO RAISE THEM

Released on = January 10, 2007, 9:51 am

Press Release Author = RELATIVE CARE GIVER FOUNDATION GILCREST COUNTY

Industry = Non Profit

Press Release Summary = RELATIVES HAVE NO RIGHTS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA BUT THEIR
ARE STATUES PUT TO PLAY FROM WASHINGTON THAT ARE THERE TO PROTECT YOU .YOU JUST NEED
TO KNOW ABOUT THEM.

Press Release Body = RELATIVES ALL ACROSS FLORIDA HAVE STEPED IN TO RAISE ANOTHER
GENERATION OF CHILDREN ,KIN .SERCOMSTANCES SUCH AS
ABUSE,ABANDONMENT,AIDS,DEATH,DIVORCE,INCARCERATION,NEGLECT,MENTAL ILLNESS,PHYSICAL
INCAPABILITY,SUBSTANCE ABUSE ,TEEN PARENTING,SOME FROM FAMILIES MURDERED.THE FAMILY
IS ALREADY IN EMOTIONAL STRESS COPING WITH A NEW GENERATION TOTALLY TRANSFORMED EVEN
WHEN OUR CHILDREN GREW UP.BIG CITIES YOU CAN NOT SEE THE HIGH AMOUNT RELATIVES
RAISING CHILDREN.RURAL COMMUNITIES IT IS VERY VISABLE.ACCORDING TO THE 2004 CENSOR
THERE ARE 16,024 POPULATION GILCREST 50 % THEN WERE RELATIVES RAISING CHILDREN .THAT
NUMBER BEING MUCH HIGHER YET DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS RIGHT AWAY DCF INVOLMENT.RELATIVES
HEADING UP HOUSEHOLDS ARE ILL INFORMED OF THE RESOURSES AVAILABLE TO THEM.IN THE 8TH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MANY CHILDREN IN RELATIVE PLACEMENT LACK A GAURDIAN ATLITUM. THIS
IS DO TO IT IS NOT MADE LAW IN LEGISLATION THAT EVERY CHILD HAS A RIGHT TO A
GAURDIAN ATLITUM.THIS IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT A CHILD IS CONSIDERED SAFE IN RELATIVE
PLACEMENT.THE CHILDREN AND THE RELATIVES ARE THE ONES WHO SUFFER FROM LACK OF
REPRESENTATION IN THE COURT SYSTEM.RELATIVES HAVE NO HELP TO NEGOTIATE THE CONFUSING
LEGAL SYSTEM AND ARE OFTEN UNAWARE OF COURT DATES PERTAINING TO THEIR CHILD\'S
CASE.THE CHILD ALSO HAS NO VIOCE AT THE VARIOUS COURT DATES SO THEIR BEST INTEREST
IS NOT SEVED OR REPRESENTED.THERE IS A TREMENDOUS LACK IN FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR
RELATIVES RAISING CHILDREN;OFTEN THEY DO NOT RECEIVE ANY BACK CHILD SUPPORT,EVEN
MONIES THAT WERE OWED TO THEM BEFORE ANY PUBLIC ASSIS