Child Protective Services, CPS, has devastated and destroyed hundreds of thousands of families in America during the last thirty years leaving a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, and shattered childhoods.
Rather than helping families, government agents have used unconstitutional laws in Juvenile Court to rip children away from their loving parents, break asunder God-given, natural, parent-child bonds, and adopt the children of the grieving out to others who profit financially with large monthly adoption subsidy payments.
Child Protective Services must be stopped! The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed. We must work tirelessly to inform the public of this very dangerous travesty of justice. We must keep faith knowing that if there is a God, there is an answer and a way to end this heartache.
Child Protective Services Agents - please come to your senses! Family destruction on false or trivial grounds is wrong, reprehensible, and inhumane.
Fosterers - be aware that for the money you get you are holding much-loved children away from their grieving families while the parents are forced to perform a service plan that is anything but a service to them. I call this hostage holding for the government. This is not kindness - to help misguided government agents destroy family relationships and break loving bonds.
CPS workers and fosterers - I ask that you now give up these unworthy professions and find something more dignified to do with your lives. Let the children of the innocent return to their homes where they are truly valued, adored, and loved by the parents God gave them.
Family rights are God-given rights. And they should not be ignored or postponed. Every moment these loving parents and children spend separated from one another is a torment beyond what anyone should ever have to bear.
It is unworthy of human dignity to allow this terrorism and torture of families to go on without saying something, speaking out, and trying to make a change.
Site mission: To provide information and support for families attacked by Child Protective Services and child welfare agents, especially those families facing false or trivial accusations of child abuse or neglect; and for researchers working to protect natural family rights.
Jonathan Wilson, 37, a 15-year Indianapolis Police Department veteran, was charged with nine felonies, including theft, money laundering and filing a false tax return. Investigators say he was a middleman in a scheme that stole more than $3.5 million meant for charity from 1997 to 2001...."I will say on Jon Wilson's behalf that he was a very, very good child abuse investigator," Barker said.
Just what we need... "good" child abuse investigators with NO RESPECT FOR THE LAW. I wonder how many families he lied about......??????
Stroeder moved Jan. 18 to Seabeck and is under the care of a therapeutic foster mother in a home on Cantu Lane....Neighbors have been protesting the placement, citing concerns about the safety of local children....he will be educated at home....Stroeder has a history of sexual aggressive behavior toward children and female adults, along with a conviction for assault, according to the sheriff's office....Seattle Children's Home, an 118-year-old institution for troubled youth atop Queen Anne Hill, offered to take Stroeder in the weeks after Christmas when his case was highly publicized. Williams said DSHS turned down the home's offer because officials there planned to keep Stroeder in a locked facility....Legally, Williams said, "We couldn't lock him up because he served his time."....Stroeder was released Dec. 31 from Echo Glen Children's Home after serving nearly six months. He was jailed there for attacking a pregnant woman in a bathroom at a Lynnwood mall.
On the Newsgroup - alt.support.child-protective-services - a victim of Washington State CPS complains:
I was not molested but it is still not a good situation for me to have been put in. I was stronger (mentally) than most of the kids there. Some of the girls were quite ill and I am certain they were abused. I remember an incident where a sexual offender had sex with one of the girls there, they (the kids who had sex) said it was mutual. But I have to wonder about the dynamics.
One time the sexual offender whose room was across the hall from me grabbed my rear. The staff saw it and said it was my fault. My fault because we were play fighting (we were kids) but play fighting involved absolutely NO PYSICAL CONTACT maybe the word for this was shadow boxing? Not until he grabbed my rear then I stopped and complained.
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What upsets me is that they still take in sexual offenders. I want that to stop. I don't want damages for having to live with sexual offenders during the 13 months I was there, I just want them to stop doing this!
It's the kid in this article.. it also blows me away that legally they can not lock him up but they can lock up anyone with a diagnosis (valid or not) from a psychiatrist. Clearly kids in the juvenile justice systems have more rights that the kids in the mental health system.
HEY, CHILD-SAVERS, HAVE YOU THOUGHT LATELY ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO THE KIDS!!?? ...or do you not care, so long as you keep getting your God-forsaken paycheck??
On Wednesday, Sacramento County supervisors will hold a public hearing to consider whether to abandon the policy, which made parental drug abuse a significant factor in deciding whether to remove children from their homes, because the high caseloads have nearly crippled the system.
When the new policy took effect, its emphasis on child safety over preserving families drove hundreds of children into the foster system. The flood began to recede in late 2000, but not before Sacramento County had taken custody of 6,284 children in July of that year and won the dubious honor of having the highest rate of children in foster care of any California county.
Over the past 18 months, the number of foster children has dropped -- currently there are about 5,400 Sacramento County children in foster care -- but the system continues to show signs of stress:
* Though caseloads have dropped over the past two years in the Family Reunification bureau -- from a maximum of 60 cases per social worker to a maximum of just under 30 -- the pressure remains immense. The state-recommended maximum caseload for a reunification worker is 15.5. The state considers 12 the optimum caseload.
* Last summer, more than 130 social workers signed petitions saying they no longer could guarantee the safety of children in their custody because caseloads are so high and the paperwork required for each case so complex.
* Last fall, juvenile court officials began fining the department in some cases if social workers didn't follow court orders. Officials at both the juvenile court and CPS say when court orders are not followed it is because social workers either don't have time to do an adequate job or the case has been transferred to a new social worker who still is catching up.
* Turnover in key bureaus, including Family Reunification, continues to approach 50 percent annually because the job is considered so stressful. The turnover is driven by dozens of new hires, many of whom leave for less taxing jobs within CPS as soon as they have put in the required one year in the reunification bureau.
"They hire these 25-year-olds who get out of college and they're trying to save the world, and then they come here and they're told they're incompetent," said Lucy Tosti, a 16-year veteran of the Family Reunification bureau. "(Managers) give them more cases than they could possibly ever do, and then (managers) start writing them up because they're not doing the job. And they're still trying to learn how to do the damned job."
Wednesday's hearing was arranged at the request of Jim Hunt, who oversees the county's Child Protective Services as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. It was prompted by a Sacramento County grand jury report last summer that questioned whether the "fragmented and inadequate foster home situation is really an improvement."
I hope they all are overtaxed and have to cut back on the number of children they rip out of their natural homes. Kids are 8 to 10 times MORE likely to be abused in state custody. When will these meddlers realize they are causing more problems for the kids by taking them away from their real parents?
One week before Christmas, Bailey's attorney received a letter from the Department of Health and Human Services in which the department asked a lower court judge to end overnight visits for Destiny.
Every other week, the child spends the weekend with her great-grandmother. It's something Dorothy Bailey looks forward to. "I've lost my husband, I've lost my daughter, and now they're taking Destiny from me. I'm sorry," Bailey said.
The recommendation is based on a letter from a counselor whom Bailey said she has never met. "I don't know how she can pass judgment on me without seeing me and knowing the truth," Bailey said.
Bailey said the counselor had conversations with Destiny and a cousin who is trying to adopt the child. She said the counselor suggests some of her behavior toward her great-granddaughter is controlling, and that Bailey is trying to meet some of her own dependency needs at the child's expense.
Even the Nebraska Foster Care Review Board strongly favors Destiny's adoption with her great-grandmother. However, in January, the state temporarily placed the child with a cousin whom, Bailey claims, Destiny barely knew...."Why are they not thinking of what is really best for Destiny? I just don't understand it because this is just another form of child abuse that she has to go through," Bailey said.
Unbelievable. The state doesn't want to give relatives the right to take care of children in state custody, giving this excuse:
The Dodge County attorney, who is arguing for the state, said giving great-grandparents "standing" would throw adoptions all over Nebraska into upheaval. He argued that would give any number of extended family members the right to intervene in adoption proceedings.
Feds: Fetus Called 'Unborn Child'
Thu Jan 31, 2:11 PM ET
By LAURA MECKLER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - States may classify a developing fetus as an "unborn child" eligible for government health care, the Bush administration said Thursday, giving low-income women access to prenatal care and bolstering the arguments of abortion opponents.
The plan will make a fetus eligible for health care under the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Because CHIP is aimed at kids, it does not typically cover parents or pregnant women.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson cited well-established data on the importance of prenatal care in explaining the proposal.
"Prenatal care for women and their babies is a crucial part of the medical care every person should have through the course of their life cycle," Thompson said in a statement. "Prenatal services can be a vital, lifelong determinant of health, and we should do everything we can to make this care available for all pregnant women."
States, which administer CHIP, would have the option of including fetuses in their programs. Doing so would make the mother eligible for prenatal and delivery care.
Abortion rights supporters complain that there are other ways to include coverage for pregnant women in CHIP. They see Thursday's action as a backdoor attempt to establish the fetus as a person with legal standing, which could make it easier to criminalize abortion.
"If they're interested in covering pregnant women, why don't they talk about pregnant women?" asked Laurie Rubiner of the National Partnership for Women and Families. "I just have to believe their hidden agenda is to extend personhood to a fetus."
This plan, she said, "sets legal precedent on its head."
States may already cover pregnant women under the health program, though they have to get specific permission from HHS since CHIP was designed for children, not adults.
Thompson promotes these waivers as an excellent way of expanding health coverage to people without insurance. He regularly brags about speeding the time it takes for them to be approved by federal officials. But in his statement Thursday, he said automatically including the fetus is the quickest way to get prenatal services to the most women.
The waiver process "would take longer than extending it this way," said HHS spokesman Campbell Gardett.
Thompson said he also supports legislation pending in the Senate that would allow states to automatically add pregnant women to CHIP, much as poor pregnant women are eligible for Medicaid.
Administration officials said last summer that they were considering this policy change. At the time, the National Governors Association cautioned HHS that while some states would embrace the new option and some would immediately reject it, other states would face divisive battles over whether to go along.
The new policy will not take effect until after it is published in the Federal Register and the department considers public comments.
This is a MAJOR story... I believe they are trying to get legal control of children before they are born - it has nothing to do with providing prenatal care - that's BS - a cover-up for their real intentions... to legally snatch children like Ruth Christine's BEFORE they are born will give them an extra edge in the child kidnapping industry. Probably thousands of pregnant women have been able to hide their infants from CPS ... giving them to legal guardians and relatives at birth to protect them from CPS... they want to close the gap by getting legal custody before the births.
Pregnant mothers are already able to get prenatal care through existing medical programs, based on income eligiblity.
October is Child Abuse Prevention Month. It was created by the International Order of Forresters (IOF is a world-wide humanitarian organization with offices in Toronto) in the early 1990's to bring attention to child abuse and the community's role in preventing abuse.
Also I just heard on the History Channel's "History's Mysteries" that Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's, was a Mason.
I wonder how much these secret societies contributed to the establishment of the child abuse and neglect industry.
Parents would be told the outcome of abuse or neglect investigations involving their children, under a bill passed by the Senate today....Currently, such notice is provided to a person who reports the alleged abuse, but not to parents.
I wonder how many other states notify the reporting party but not the parents. That's something to look into!
Suzanne Shell's book, Profane Justice costs $27.95 - but I've heard it is well worth the money to those who need the information. (I haven't read it but if someone wants to loan me a copy I will... this cost is too much for me.) This page at Sage Wisdom Press also offers a book for parents to read to children about their rights.
"What adoptees walk around with, whether they're aware of it or not, is the truth that, whatever the story, on some level, your mother didn't want you. If that's not addressed, the pain has to come out one way or another ... I'm never surprised when adoptees act out in a hostile way, hurting themselves or someone else."-- therapist Marlou Russell, author of "Adoption Wisdom: A Guide to the Issues and Feelings of Adoption" (Broken Branch Productions).... quoted in an LA Times column today.
Would anyone like to write to the paper and explain that not all adopted children are unwanted? I'm sure very few of them are.
"...unconstitutional under the landmark case of Troxel v. Granville (a case out of Washington State) in which the U.S. Supreme Court reiterated that parents' rights are fundamental. Troxel struck down a Washington law allowing grandparents to sue for visitation over the parents' objection.
Amazing... they want a state law that violates a recent US Supreme Court case. Don't these lawmakers have more important matters to take care of?
I just added this website to the Nebraska page. It is an interactive website where Nebraskans can tell their legislators what they want, for changing the laws.
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