Foster Children may get "bill of rights"

Texas drafts bill of rights for foster children
Similar list of rights failed in 2007 legislative session.
By Corrie MacLaggan
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/01/26/0126foster.html


This article speaks about how last year the Texas Senate passed a bill about a "list of rights" that foster children are entitled to, such as the right to a safe place, and freedom from corporal punishment, but that failed in the State House. The bill failed after some criticized that kids would abuse the bill and say that they had a right to luxuries such as designer jeans. Although the bill failed its ideas were still taken in when the Department of Family and Protective Services decided they would make up such a list to insure that this idea would go through. The Department plans to start informing foster children of their decision in the next couple months and start implementing the decision. The article goes on to say that the reasoning for all of this action is to let the kids know of the rights that they already had just in a simple format. I believe that the article is worth reading because it demonstrates the resourcefulness and the ability of the Texas government to get action on an issue even if there are many who oppose it.