That's why I said this is going to turn out to be more of a bonus savings for the government. If I had said it like you did someone on here would have countered me with "I am sure you think that's a bad thing". Well technically yeah but not in the same sense that they think of it as a good thing. They think this will limit the available foster homes. It won't, it only serves as a cap from increasing because of the opioid epidemic, if they can rehabilitate parents off drugs through programs it will cost them a lot less money, for those who can't be rehabbed it will serve to move children through the process to adoption faster, which just means less time in foster care which means more open beds in foster homes faster to process kids, once processed into adopted homes they will save because adoptive parents only get title money but do not receive all the other entitlements available to foster children, like medical, dental, psychiatric care, etc., clothing allowances etc., etc.

None of it instills fear in me, it should though to parents to wake up and work on the issues that brought them to attention of the authorities in the
first place. There's a extremely small chance that CPS is (in the US at least) in the wrong when they removed kid(s), if CPS is knocking on someone's door there's a good chance that knock was warranted to at the least serve as a wake up call whether they remove or not.