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Strengthening Families, Protecting Life and Promoting Health > Protecting Our Children > Foster Care
We support eliminating bureaucratic prohibitions on corporal discipline and home schooling in foster homes to help alleviate the shortage of foster parents.
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Foster homes are temporary arrangements. Their practices must be consistent with societal norms to minimize disruption for the children.

The following logical syllogism is a guess by this site's author, but here goes:

  1. The vast majority of parents do not home school their children.
  2. The vast majority of home schooling households are healthy and caring.
  3. Therefore: virtually no children in the foster system are accustomed to healthy home school environments.

If minimizing disruption is a goal, home schooling is inappropriate for the vast majority of foster children.

Allowing foster parents to corporally punish others' children is highly problematic and should not be promoted in the platform.

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