I think it's great that these foster parents adopt these children, however they have to know there are potential problems when they do this. I understand they want help from the state, but my problem with this is that if a biological parent has problems with his/her own child, what help is there for them? In our society all these people with "problems" seem to think they are entitled to assistance, but for the regular "working man" there is no help until he is so far down the toilet that his life is ruined.

Thank you for your response to our story. You are right, if a biological parent has a child with these same problems there are no resources to help them either.
The difference here is that there is a state law that is in place so that special needs children will be adopted out of the foster care system. This law was put in place as an "incentive" if you will so that these children would grow up in families and not age out of the foster care system with no one to help care for them throughout their lives.
This allows people to come forward and adopt these children without having the additional worry about going financially bankrupt trying to pay for services these kids need. In the best of circumstances, these are very difficult children to take care of because of what happened to them before they joined our families.
The State decided that in the interest of helping to find families for had to place children, we would not also be put into financial peril. The State has not lived up to it's part of the agreement.
It is unfair that every family with a special needs child does not have access to the services to help their child. All children deserve the very best start in life that we can give them.
I am pleased that Susannah ended the story with my statement about hoping that the citizens of our state join together to fight for children. Our children are the most vulnerable citizens of this state. Why are they being treated this way?

I wonder when society (and our governor) will finally realize that if we don't take care of these kids when they are growing up, that we will end up paying for it in a different way later: crime, prison costs, therapy, and the worst scenario: the lives of innocent victims of these disturbed children's violent crimes.

I too watched the newscast and as a parent of one of these kinds of kids that we have been trying to help for over 7 years - (now 10) State help is not that great and its true that you have to be a ward of the state before space opens up for out of home placement. I currently know of 5 other families in a situation where they have had to place their adopted child out of the home. My son is in Kentucky with 3 other boys from this state. The total numbers of kids where my child is is 15 and 4 are from Washington. Does that tell you anything? This state doesn't help at all and these kids are destined for disaster. If the state would of recognized that critical care is so important at the early stage, there wouldn't be these problems. I am not even sure if my child will ever come home. Its getting far to dangerous for the entire family.