Family hoping to foster children runs into problem with the state.
Susann and her husband Dan?s hopes of fostering children and then adopting them were recently dashed because their daughter?s aren?t fully vaccinated for philisophical reasons, not religious.
According to a spokesperson with the state?s Department of Economic Security, or DES, the state requires that each child residing in the foster home have all childhood immunizations appropriate to the child?s age and health.
The family selected what they believe to be the most important vaccinations for their children and had them given to them.
Susann questions why her children?s vaccinations matter if the state?s kids are already vaccinated.
?If they?re fully vaccinated I don?t quite understand what their fear is,? said Susann.?I think that when you?re looking at what?s in the best interest of children that don?t have families, it would be much better to put them in a family that really wants them,? said Dan.
Tip: Fark.com
This is tricky. On one hand, she has a point that the children she is taking are vaccinated. It does not seem to put them at risk of harm. But the rule of having the other children in the home vaccinated is a good one. And, it?s sound health policy to do so. The rule makes most sense when younger children are being adopted into the home. This may be a case where the laws seem to not match up to real-life situations very well but the intent was well-founded.
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