Foster Care Nightmare, Sex Abuse and Trafficking – Part 3, PizzaGate series w/Foster Shock, Mari Frankel

Part 3 of our series: PizzaGate, child sex abuse and trafficking, Foster Shock

This episode focuses on the very real issues within our foster care system. Mari Frankel, documentary film maker of “Foster Shock“, joins the program to share the horrifying environment children have to endure in the “system”. Her film focuses on the welfare system in Florida, which, according to many in the system, is a realistic look into the problems found across the country.  

FosterShock is intended to educate the public about how Florida’s ‘privatized’ child welfare was created and how this has left to massive amounts of taxpayer dollars being spent with little oversight and no accountability.

What is Often Lost in the Argument Against Privatization – A Massive Misunderstanding of Free Markets and How They Work

As an avid free market supporter, privatization itself is not the issue, it’s when privatization is void of competition and free market principles. In the case of the child welfare system, there are few competitors, buyers (i.e. children/children advocates) are not able to choose, and there are no consequences for poor service. In a privatized system with little/no competition, little/no buyer choice, and little/no oversight, the only motivational factors that exist is for business owners to make as much money as possible. Making money is not bad, it’s a good motivator when balanced out by customers demanding a high quality of service, as found in a functioning free market system. Without the buyer’s ability to demand quality, it ultimately leads to corrosion in quality. The level of corrosion is directly proportion to the ability for customers to demand quality. In this case, children have no ability to demand quality. Therefore, the quality is as low as the state will allow (never as high as customers will demand in a functioning system). Note: 1. There are obviously great people in every system who have strong moral convictions who will operate with the utmost of integrity regardless of any system they are part of. 2. A fully functioning free market system may not be possible in this situation. But to privatize alone without putting functioning and realistic controls in place, aiming for reduced cost and better quality, is grossly misunderstanding the situation.

Mari Frankel – Producer of the Documentary Film Foster Shock:

Frankel has been trained and served as a community advocate for the State of Florida Guardian ad Litem Program for the last six years. These volunteers speak out on behalf of vulnerable youth in the courts.

For the last 15 years Mari has been on the board of Adopt-A-Family, a nonprofit that helps formerly homeless and income-challenged working families. She assists with their after-school program, Project Grow, which helps children build their social, emotional and educational skills.

What “Miss Mari” (as the children call her) has seen young people endure in the foster care system has horrified her, and compelled her to tell their stories in her first documentary film, Foster Shock.

You can see more about Mari Frankel and her film at www.fostershock.com

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