Indiana Cuts Funds for Special Needs Foster Children

Indiana is proposing to move kids with behavioral, emotional, and medical problems into cheaper care. Where it used to be that families fostering children with special needs got up to $100 dollars a day (for therapy, clothes, food, etc), now they will only get $25 a day. This will undoubtedly cause fewer families to want to take in special needs kids, and the state will end up with more children in need of homes. This cut would save the state $56 million, but I predict that it will cause more problems than solutions. It is unfortunate, that California also, has cut funding to child services. These are the kids that need the most attention. The long term repercussions are not evident at the moment, but I don't think that any good can come out of a situation like this one.