[HPforGrownups] Potter family wealth (WAS Re: A journey "into...)

[Lana]

No: HPFGUIDX 161698

 
Ceridwen writes:

<snip> All of their meanness and pettiness aside, since I'm not even going 
to go into their many and varied faults, *any* family who takes in a 
parentless child usually gets something. Why not them?

Lana writes:

This is not always true.  I adopted my cousins daughter thru the state after her rights were removed and we got kinship care ($236.00 a month) for the first year.  Then it was gone.

My mother willingly took the same  cousins newest baby to take care of and she gets nothing.  And will get nothing.  When you willingly take a child, you are agreeing to treat the child like your own as well as financially supporting that child as your own.  Most states just feel you are doing your duty by family.  Family looks after family no matter the burden.

The only time money really comes into play is when there is a special needs issue the state needs to deal with.  Or if there is a need for it financially.  If you are poor or just getting by, then you may be entitled to some goverment help, but if you are well off or at least reasonable comfortable, the state figures you can deal with the extra cost.

Lana__

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