Catholic Charities Not Giving Up

For my personal blog post this week, I went looking for a current news story that I could passionately talk about. I went on illinoishomepage.net to look for a news story, and came across this one: Catholic Charities Not Giving Up.Catholic Charities provides professional, compassionate services to all persons touched by adoption, including birth parents, adoptive parents, adopted persons, as well as other extended members of these families. In 2008, Catholic Charities helped build families by bringing 23 children together with loving families through their adoption programs. (Source: http://www.cc.dio.org/programs.htm) Catholic Charities' contracts have said to be cancelled by the state. They have recently appealed the states decision but were unsuccessful. They said they plan to appeal again. The agency as a whole, works with more than 2,200 children, all of which would have to be moved to other adoption agencies. Many foster parents, disagree with this move and think it would be nothing but bad news. Loss of the contracts not only affects the children, but foster parents, family of those foster children, and the people that work with those foster children. The state of Illinois is not looking out for the children's best interest, but yet the best interest of the state politicians and officials. The politicians and state officials will cut the budget anywhere and everywhere, and at the cost of anybody except themselves. It's sad that they are cutting the budget in places like education, children services, public health, domestic violence prevention, etc. The states budget could be cut in more appropriate places, in order to help save programs such as Catholic Charities.