Parents smoke pot while child is asleep. Daughter taken away. Dies in foster care

[Curmudgeoness]

77. There are still foster parents like that today.

They just do not seem to be the rule, but are the exception. And it may have been that way years ago too, and we just didn't hear about it. I have no experience.

In my niece's case, the foster parents who were her neighbors did nothing. They did not work, but lived off of the payments for fostering kids. They were lazy in keeping the house decent, they never paid one bit of attention to the kids, and she ended up even feeding them since there was rarely a mealtime at the foster house. The husband was an alcoholic who was drunk by 10 AM and the wife slept all day. It was a situation that no one would want to see their kids raised in. These were no role models, to be sure. I always wondered how they were able to pass any sort of rudimentary inspections, and I assume that they never had any.