"It is a fact we acknowledge too rarely: Most of the people who neglect or abuse children are not sociopathic monsters. They’re parents who are exhausted, addicted, unemployed, evicted or simply overwhelmed....
"It is a fact we acknowledge too rarely: Most of the people who neglect or abuse children are not sociopathic monsters. They’re parents who are exhausted, addicted, unemployed, evicted or simply overwhelmed....
"Ten years ago, a Chicago Christian social-service agency decided there was a better, cheaper, kinder and more effective way to deal with these families. LYDIA Home Association partnered with a group of local churches to identify families willing to take children into their homes temporarily while their parents dealt with crises or difficulties – having surgery, being evicted, completing a drug treatment program, dealing with an out-of-town emergency.
"The point was, the children wouldn't be “taken.” They would be given – voluntarily, to another family that had been vetted and trained and could keep them safe while their parents regrouped.
"Thus Safe Families was born.
"Now the movement has come to Greater Cincinnati, and tremendous good can come from it...."
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