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Why does the Government give "financial" assistance to families that adopt disabled children?

Why does the Government give "financial assistance" to families that adopt disabled children, but they don't want to HELP families that have one????

Public Comments

1. thats not true. there is financial assistance available for these people too
2. you are mistaken, there is financial assistance and health insurance for families with biological children.
3. I'm not sure if that's the case or not as I do not live in Germany and have no knowledge of their adoption system. However, if it is true, I would suggest that it may be to encourage prospective adopters to consider taking on a disabled child... Not as a financial incentive as such, but rather to pay for some of the extra care and equipment that a disabled child is likely to require.
4. because all disabled people are entitled to the tax free disability living allownace adopted disabled children and disabled children living with their maternal parents are given help via MENCAP etc as my son goes to a saturday club every other saturday from 10.00am to 3.30pm, we also get dom care payments from social service for 10 hours per month and respite care in the school holidays paid for by social services the rest is up to us and i have no extended family it is just me and my aupairs
5. I can only speak to what happens in the US as an adoptive parent. Children with disabilities as anyone knows are expensive to raise. Children without a family are even more expensive to raise. When I adopted my 24 year old son as an infant he lived full-time in an institution. It was estimated that it cost the state of New York 17,000 a month to keep him there. When I adopted him I got approximately 1,000 a month. A savings of 158,000 a year. I also became a full-time stay at home single mom to be his caregiver. Without the financial "incentive" I could not have been a stay at home mom and he would not now be the independent person he is now. Institutionalized children do not grow up to take care of themselves or live on their own Because I got an adoption subsidy, we were not eligible for some of the benefits parents are often entitled to. We did not additionally get SSI or food stamps. We struggled (and still struggle) financially as do most families who have kids with disabilities. BUT, I do understand that there are rare circumstances where parents are almost forced to give their children up for adoption so that they can get the medical care they need. That needs to change. NO ONE, not a parent or an individual should ever go bankrupt getting the care they need. That is why we desperately need a national health insurance plan in this country. That is why I am voting for Hillary. Angel - if you have a disabled child who has costly medical or therapeutic needs she should be eligible for SSI and medicaid. As a toddler she should be eligible for WIC. My adopting my son saved the US Govt. MINIMALLY 5,000,000.00 for the cost of his care to date. If he lives to the age of 50 which is a minimal expectation - it would have saved them no less than 80,000,000.00 If the adoption subsidy is the difference between people being able to afford to care for and raise a disabled child to adulthood or not - it is money well spent.
6. It is unfair. I as a single mom to a disabled toddler now the struggles. I can not get help from my goverment. The treat me like im an bad person for being a single mom. I live in the us. Its horriable. OUr gov does not care for us.