They probably have huge volume, and are happy to unload these kids wherever they can.
The company was probably Depelchin. They handle all Texas adoptions and maybe all 50 states.
Orphanages were shut down because of discipline issues. They need to be brought back.
There are so many abused kids the states don’t know what to do with them. And many of the kids become abusers.
When I was a child abuse case worker, we were loaded down with files. Far too many to keep up with and the state kept piling on more and more forms to be filled out. Then they’d insist you go to this workshop and that workshop when you didn’t have time. I blew up at two different workshops - one because they had the nerve to ask the purpose of Form # whatever and I told them where they could put the redundant form and it was 4 pm and I still had a 3 hour drive ahead. I’d have 30 cases, across three counties, was on call 24/7 including weekends and was all by myself. That was before cell phones and the beeper wouldn’t work in my counties. Frankly, I could have been killed in the middle of the night and dumped on some dirt road and no one would have known anything about it for days. No one can handle those hours or the bs. This summer, the legislature restricted the number of files per caseworker. Why it took legislative action is beyond me.
The foster care system wasn’t nearly as bad but the quality of the workers was pitiful. I was also given a few foster kids to check on. The foster workers never could get the kids’ papers right or get the foster parents paid and medical was a nightmare. Why did I have foster kids? Who knows since that wasn’t my dept. But since they’d come from my counties, I would have to travel to Austin and to Abilene to see them on top of traveling my three assigned counties. Those were all day trips. Travel time eats into your day and the supervisor (officed in a fourth county - yeah, more travel for me) didn’t understand or care because his other caseworkers only traveled in town.
Big surprise, I quit.
It’s the same with state juvenile delinquents. It’s hard to get the kids in an appropriate facility that meets their needs. Say you have 20 kids to place that week and only 10 slots across the entire state - 1 group home slot, 6 state school slots and 3 wilderness camp slots. What are you supposed to do with the kid who needs a drug abuse facility and hasn’t been for six months? And people wonder why the little punks turn 18 and upon release screw up again.
Yeah, it’s all the lazy caseworker’s fault, right?