The state of Minnesota Department of Human Services, in coordination with the Minnesota governor’s “Children’s Cabinet” has sent notices to child care providers informing them that parents who contract Covid might have their children removed and placed into “foster care.”
“If parents are hospitalized and have not made arrangements, children might have a short stay in foster care while social workers try to find family or friends who can help, or until parents recover enough to resume care…It is likely in these situations that children will have been exposed to the coronavirus, though they might not be ill,” the form reads.
The form also makes clear that the children may be placed in another foster care home if the initial foster care provider becomes ill as well.
“If it is a foster care placement, they would contact their foster care licensor to arrange for a new placement,” the form states.
“We went from 15 days to slow the spread to a mask mandate to now this. When does it end?” Minnesota state Rep. Mary Franson told National File.
“What illness has prompted government to have parents provide a backup plan and who determines level of sickness? Democrats claim Republicans rip children away from parents but under such a proposal being floated by Minnesota, children could be ripped away.”