Children being taken from their homes, based on tips from anonymous telephone callers alleging abuse or neglect, and there’s growing evidence that many of the children placed in foster care annually don’t belong there.
Georgia state Sen. Nancy Schaefer assessment of the bureaucrats entrusted to protect children there: “I believe Child Protective Services (CPS) nationwide has become corrupt and that the entire system is broken almost beyond repair. I am convinced parents and families should be warned of the dangers.”
Dr. Steven Krason, professor of political science and legal studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville: "CPS itself now poses “a grave threat” because it is almost impossible to fully insulate one’s family from...a system that on very little pretense can simply reach into the home and take away one’s offspring.”
Dr. Shirley Moore, national director of legislative affairs for the American Family Rights Association (AFRA): "Many Los Angeles judges who rule on family court cases also sit on the boards of phony non-profit organizations created to generate state adoption/foster care grants via federal funding."
California’s 2003 Little Hoover Commission Report: "Up to 70 percent of children in foster care should never have been removed from their homes."
A 2006 series in the Belleville News Democrat: "53 children in foster care died between 1998 and 2005 after state child welfare workers committed serious errors and ignored their own rules."
Free the Children Coalition is planning a national rally in D.C. to expose what they say is "judicial fraud in the Family Court system and the violation of families’ rights by child protective agencies nationwide."
Source: Articles by Barbara F. Hollingsworth, The Examiner’s local opinion editor:
Bureaucrats running down the clock against parents
Victims claim CPS officials guilty of ‘ruthless behavior’
Lawmaker says CPS officials guilty of ‘ruthless behavior’
Is it child protection or legal kidnapping?
Georgia state Sen. Nancy Schaefer assessment of the bureaucrats entrusted to protect children there: “I believe Child Protective Services (CPS) nationwide has become corrupt and that the entire system is broken almost beyond repair. I am convinced parents and families should be warned of the dangers.”
Dr. Steven Krason, professor of political science and legal studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville: "CPS itself now poses “a grave threat” because it is almost impossible to fully insulate one’s family from...a system that on very little pretense can simply reach into the home and take away one’s offspring.”
Dr. Shirley Moore, national director of legislative affairs for the American Family Rights Association (AFRA): "Many Los Angeles judges who rule on family court cases also sit on the boards of phony non-profit organizations created to generate state adoption/foster care grants via federal funding."
California’s 2003 Little Hoover Commission Report: "Up to 70 percent of children in foster care should never have been removed from their homes."
A 2006 series in the Belleville News Democrat: "53 children in foster care died between 1998 and 2005 after state child welfare workers committed serious errors and ignored their own rules."
Free the Children Coalition is planning a national rally in D.C. to expose what they say is "judicial fraud in the Family Court system and the violation of families’ rights by child protective agencies nationwide."
Source: Articles by Barbara F. Hollingsworth, The Examiner’s local opinion editor:
Bureaucrats running down the clock against parents
Victims claim CPS officials guilty of ‘ruthless behavior’
Lawmaker says CPS officials guilty of ‘ruthless behavior’
Is it child protection or legal kidnapping?
4 comments:
Unlawful guardianship is eldernapping (shanghaiing) - taking control of someone's life, without following the legal safeguards.
Family courts, probate courts, etc are corrupt and ineffective almost everywhere. In my state, Colorado, the family courts and CPS is being closely examined due to deaths of children.
Elders are even more at risk in long term cares and at the abuse of guardians. The public is slow to respond because it is human nature to think, "It can't happen to us,we live the right life".
It can happen unless we change the system!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qAlyqs2YE
The above link is to a utube video of a county board meeting of comments of two women fighting in family court in Illinois. The second comment by a woman named Deb Durbin is shocking.
Going through divorce and custody in court generated court fees which the court looked to her for payment. Listen to the testimony: Although Debtor's Prison ended over a century ago, she was jailed for contempt and put in leg irons for the nonpayment of fees. This is 2008 in the USA.
Unbelievable? For those of us trapped in probate or family courts, it can happen. Sanctions for contempt of court are common to discourage the fight for "right".
All of this is by design to guarantee income for those in the system. Isn't it enlightening that no one but the guardians and lawyers come out ahead in probate court?
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