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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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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 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.
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Fighting Child Protective Services False Accusations
July 11, 2007
The featured topic of the July 23, 2007 issue of The New American magazine is “Families Separated By The State.” Attorney Greg Hession has a feature article in this magazine, titled, “This Is Child Protection?”
The magazine is available for sale for only $2.95 - 2007 New American Back Issues - though you can read Hession’s article online: This Is Child Protection?.
Hession writes about the terror of a government child-snatching home invasion, the snitch network, the court process, statistical evidence, and what can be done about it. He concludes, “Change will likely come only when its cruelties have been exposed, and the public reaffirms that raising children is the responsibility of families, not the state.”
I have been working to expose CPS cruelty for eighteen years now. With the advent of the internet, the word is getting out much better than before. Every one of you who builds a website, or starts a new MySpace or Squidoo Lens, or other similar type of page explaining what CPS does to families, or who goes onto a parenting message board and tells people the truth about CPS, is helping to get the word out. Please keep up the good effort. Write letters to the editors of newspapers. Write to your state and federal legislators. Keep the heat on CPS and the cruel system of family abuse. That’s one of the best ways of seeking change.
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I agree. These kind of sites is what helped me understand what these people are about. I never knew. I felt so alone. I get my courage from all of you like fightcps, and goodmomsfightdys, kidjacked ,bellasbeenkidnapped,afra, there is so many sites that i cant name them all but i have an admin who is going through her own nightmare and has spread the word out here and nj and she is making great progress. Thank God. She has very big news that cant be shared yet but it is amazing how she will win and get her beautiful girls back!!!!
Comment by kwanie — July 11, 2007 @ 8:23 am
We couldnt of done it if it were not for you and your sight ..
My son Robbie tells me this is the year that he and I and my son Sean are to be free.. I feel it is for us all..
God BLess~!
Comment by Angela Hawk — July 11, 2007 @ 8:45 am
The job of CPS is to protect the child. Yes, raising children is the responsibility of the families, but when they fail their children, someone must protect those who cannot defend and protect themselves. Every complaint must be investigated. Saying that CPS workers and fosterers are unworthy and have no dignity shows how unresearched and invalid your position is. Using that sort of rhetoric will not win over the more educated citizens of this country.
Comment by Hanna Brooks — July 11, 2007 @ 6:00 pm
Hanna, it isn’t the foster parents and CPS caseworkers who are unworthy - it is the profession of child stealing that is unworthy, even if that child stealing is done under color of law. Taking children from their parents using false accusations against them is evil child stealing. Helping them by warehousing the children while the parents are forced to jump through hoops called a “service plan” is just as evil as warehousers are aiding the child stealing industry. Please understand where we’re coming from. If a child is truly physically abused and in mortal danger, then yes, child protection is necessary. But most of the children ripped from their parents have non-abusive parents and extended family members willing to take them in, and shouldn’t be in foster homes at all.
Comment by Linda — July 11, 2007 @ 9:02 pm
Until Someone can clearly and definitively define what is Child abuse and what is discipline I will continue to fight CPS and any persons or organizations related to them. Parental rights and constitutional rights cannot be usurped by persons under any guise or intention that violates basic laws set down in 1776 and on which this country is founded. Enforcing a “law” by breaking it makes you just as guilty as those you pursue. Ask the officers at the center of the Rodney King video… where is the outcry against these legal kidnapings? When CPS uses threats, intimidation, and secrecy to carry out their twisted agenda for the almighty dollar (and if this was not true then why the secrecy behind closed doors and sealed records) then we as members of a free society have a duty to stand for injustice IN ALL FORMS. I have posted this article on my myspace page and invite all to read my blog. Remember 1 voice whispers, thousands will scream. the time for change is at hand!
Comment by Robert Podlaski — July 11, 2007 @ 9:34 pm
Dear Hanna:
Unfortunately, “the more educated citizens” rarely run afoul of CPS, though no one is immune. CPS deals with 3% of the populace. Hardly anything to make a fuss over unless you’re one of the 3%.
I once held the same benign views, Hanna. CPS was a lumbering, harmless animal bent on helping children escape the horrors of abuse.
That is until an anonymous phone call alleging false allegations of sexual abuse set off a chain reaction of the most blatant criminality, the most callous contempt for the family unit, and only later, when the anonymous caller ‘fessed up, did I REALLY get a good look at the dark underbelly of this beast called CPS.
What this person was asked to participate in, the level of merit his “word” was given despite the denial of my adolescent child, how his words were changed on the record to reflect something almost the opposite of what he really said, is PRECISELY the point Linda is making.
They operate with more secrecy than the CIA, more “authority” than the FBI, and with absolute immunity, as if granted executive clemency or being in the witness protection program.
Hanna, no one wants to see a kid hurt. But more often than not, a struggling family in need of assistance is forever deconstructed by CPS.
There is a false positive ratio of over 67%. This means that 2 out of 3 allegations of “abuse” are investigated, screened out, or found otherwise to be unsubstantiated.
If 67% of all persons who appeared in court on criminal charges were found “not guilty” after being arrested and charged, what do you think would happen to the legal system in this country?
Hanna, I forgive your naive comments. But take it from THIS “educated citizen”. CPS taught ME more about Civil Rights, conspiracy, perjury, fraud and REAL abuse than any classroom I could have attended.
Yes, we ALL know it is a tough job. If CPS gets it wrong, a child could possibly die. However, just as conversely, if they get it wrong, the bonds of a weak and hurting family can and do suffer what our Supreme Court calls “irreparable damage.”
Comment by Ken Ashworth — July 12, 2007 @ 5:07 pm
I watch Nancy Grace now and again and tonight when I went to her show she was saying,” that without preponderance of evidence” the police could not arrest the particular party she was speaking about. I did not pay too much attention to it after that comment because I became angry all over again about how cps operates. This show was about a murder case and yet they could not arrest him.
How sick is that???
This suspect has more rights than the parents who are being unjustly accused of child abuse. They do not need a preponderance of evidence before they invade your home and take your children.
The suspect will receive a jury trial but, not the parent victims of cps
Mr. Ashworth is correct when he said they have more authority than the FBI.
Comment by Ruth — July 12, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
http://web.mac.com/jlnatalie1/iWeb/FreeChrisWhite/The%20Deception.html
ANother story you can not believe. I am just trying to get someone to understand it happen to my brother it can happen to you.
Comment by Natalie — July 15, 2007 @ 7:18 am
To Hanna,
Most of the folks who have commented on the above are educated, thoughtful folk who have seen atrocities happen to children and teens who are unfairly kidnapped by CPS and their *service providers*
Worse yet, it has happened within their own families. This is not a textbook situation. It is a REALITY.
I have personally witnessed the destruction of teens by CPS. Whether these kids were placed into FC, or even more disturbingly into a GROUP HOME, the outcomes for these children has not been favorable.
BTW, a research psychologist wrote the bestseller “Whores of the Court” because her own brother was accused of CSA. Child sexual abuse.
CPS serves a purpose. They are needed, but it now OFTEN functions as a FULL employment agency.
Comment by fern — July 16, 2007 @ 6:27 am
Obviously “Hanna” has not ever had to deal with CPS. If she had she would have a different view of the system. I had no idea what was going on until I had to deal with them and several years ago probably would have made the same statement. For what I knew was CPS was there to protect abused kids and on paper that is what they are there for. In reality that is not what is going on. CPS often are the ones abusing kids and thier families. They drop the ball so often that if that happened in any other part of the government or in a company that person would be fired! They return kids to abusive parents and tourment the kids of non abusive parents because hey they are easier targets. Something is screwed up here and needs to be changed. I don’t think anyone on here is for the abuse of children most are here to protect our children from danger … that danger being CPS. With the aid of this site and others bringing to light the abuses in the system eventually things (at leat I hope) will be fixed.
Comment by Debbie — July 16, 2007 @ 7:40 am
I definetely agree with all the comments to Hanna. I always could of bet my money that these people had reason to remove children and the reality set in. There are caseworkers(far to many) that are starting to make this a kidnapping agency. please please believe it is the worst thing. I wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy. They can take your children with no evidence that you did anything. Please Believe it because I didnt.
Comment by kwanie — July 18, 2007 @ 4:18 pm
I think that instead of simply complaining about CPS, it would be more helpful if somebody cared enough to create a system that is “child protective” and yet does not infringe upon the rights of so called, good parents. Sorry, but I’ve been a foster parent for five years now. Yes, I’ve seen “false accusations,” but exponentially more often I’ve seen some pretty messed up people get their children back and then immediately repeat the actions that got their children removed in the first place. (Meth???, Alcoholism???, Prostitution??? Neglect??? Ambivalence??? Too low functioning to even care for themselves???)
This system isn’t broken. (Hang in there.) It was never good to begin with. Unfortunately, it is the only one we’ve got. (I agree, not a good enough answer!)
People need to stop talking on blogs (moanin’ and groanin’ never got anything accomplished) and start working towards a good system… one that protects the kids that really do need protecting (the vast majority of children involved with CPS DO need protection.) Do something really worthwhile, be a part of the solution.
I think that if you started looking logically at the total problems; not just your own; you would quickly throw up your arms and admit that it’s a much harder system to be a part of than you ever imagined. Especially if you are truly trying to protect children.
I really think that unless you’ve walked a mile in the shoes of a foster parent or a CPS worker, you cannot know the devastation some people do to their own children. They claim to love their children too. The biggest difference is that you, as the general public, are not allowed to hear most of the gory details from D.S.H.S. or foster parents, because of confidentiality laws that protect the very “loving parents” that damage their own children.
I am sorry that any of you were falsely accused. I truly am. But I’ve seen too many children, that are severely damaged emotionally and physically by their “loving” parents. I haven’t met a parent yet that hasn’t claimed to love the child they damaged through their addiction to meth or crack cocaine. Their child will never see, will never hear; that is the gift their “loving” parents gave them while pregnant and on illegal drugs. Then their “loving” parents abandon them to go back to their drug use. These children have one of those “horrible†foster families you all disparage, who willingly take them in, love them in an appropriate manner, and adopt them. Oh, by the way, I have never made one cent from a foster child in the entire five years. My husband and I have lost money every month. Why, because we give our foster children a life that is better than the 70% of poverty reimbursement that the state gives us. Better food, better clothing; safe, stable, loving, nurturing home environment. Surely that makes us monsters.
I know how much money is spent by D.S.H.S. helping parents get their children back. And I know of hundreds of parents that are on their ninth child removed at birth, because of drug abuse. They’re mind-frame is that they’ll keep having children until CPS let’s them keep one. They are given the same consideration as if it were the first time. They are offered drug programs that have proven records. Joe Blow public can’t get in because of the back-log. They are given quality parenting classes ($110,000 per month for one program alone, folks. That’s each and every month, and in my town there are at least 20 programs that are filled to capacity.)
I am NOT saying that this is you. I’m saying it absolutely exists. I’m saying that you’re only addressing a part of the problem. Make a better system, one that truly is child protective, for the sake of the child (rather than one that is parent protective despite the child) and you’ll truly get my attention, and my admiration. Right now, I’m not convinced this blog site is worth re-visiting, just to hear a small minority moan and groan.
Comment by Carla — July 18, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
Here we go again. Carla, don’t try to tell me what I should be doing with my time. I maintain this site as a legal information resource for people who need the help. This is all I can do. I don’t have time to start new systems. Good grief - get real girl! I’ve got a huge life out there that has nothing to do with this site. I don’t have time to do more. If YOU think a new system should be created, then great. YOU put in the time and effort to create it. But don’t tell me I’m not doing enough, or not doing the right thing. I’m doing a lot more to help falsely accused parents than 99.9% of the rest of the citizens of this country, by giving them a little bit of legal information, and providing a place for them to connect with one another.
Comment by Linda — July 18, 2007 @ 8:55 pm
Yes, here you go again Linda… just another website blaming others (like foster families), for not doing enough for you. Very mediocre.
I saw some of the pictures represented on your site. They are just as “falsely accusing” of foster parents as the false accusations you are claiming happened to you. One of them looks as if the child were outside playing and banged up their knees. Hardly abuse from a foster parent. Good grief - get real??? I live in the real word. I think it’s you that is myopic in vision.
I don’t need you to tell me what to do either. I AM actively working on a solution to the admittedly bad system. Right now.
I started a non-profit organization to ensure that foster children have quality clothing. I work at the state level to improve the current laws to make it harder to falsely accuse parents. I vote pro-child. And I vote at every opportunity.
I send out emails to more then 500 people on a regular basis, to notify them of child abusive laws. I gathered those emails myself over the past five years. They are mostly foster parents, and they care that there are parents out there that are being falsely accused.
And, at the same time, I’m working within the “bad” current system advocating for children in the best way I am able. I am also a parent of both biological and adopted children. I did not “steal” my adopted children. Their birthparent’s relenquished their parental right’s to their children. No family member’s wanted to come forward. Who did you want to raise them?
None of us are doing enough. But blaming and falsely accusing foster parent’s is just a cheap shot. And desperate to boot. They are not the people you should be angry at. They have no legal standing within the courts on any case, and they DON’T steal children. 99% of us are very caring, and safe, people. That other 1% that are child-abusive, we would fight right alongside of you to get rid of. I respectfully submit that it is falsely accusatory of you to lump us all together.
Comment by Carla — July 18, 2007 @ 9:59 pm
Carla, I’m glad for you that you’re doing what you feel is right to change the system. But I’m not writing on your site to tell you what I find wrong with the work you do. You’re here, insulting me and the people I’m helping with this site. You should get busy with your advocacy work and stop worrying about what the rest of us are doing to help other segments of the world population.
Comment by Linda — July 18, 2007 @ 10:21 pm
“They are mostly foster parents, and they care that there are parents out there that are being falsely accused.” You somehow find this insulting?
I just spent some time looking at statistics of Abuse and Neglect From Foster Parents:
Abuse and Neglect by Foster Parents
As reported in Child Maltreatment 2003, 0.5 percent of the perpetrators of abuse or neglect were foster parents (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2005b).
This is of the estimated 523,000 children in foster care as of September 30, 2003
That’s 0.5 percent, not 5.0 percent. NOT ACCEPTABLE, but hopefully it helps put things into perspective.
Sorry, this is the most recent statistics available and the page was updated March of 2007.
Also this is NOT written by D.S.H.S., it was written by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and is available in a .pdf form at http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/foster.cfm there are a number of other interesting facts on this publication, as well.
So let me re-state with corrections: “99.5% of us are very caring, and safe, people. That other 0.05% that are child-abusive, we would fight right alongside of you to get rid of.”
Comment by Carla — July 19, 2007 @ 9:08 am
Still got it wrong: “99.95% of us are very caring, and safe, people. That other 0.05% that are child-abusive, we would fight right alongside of you to get rid of.â€
Comment by Carla — July 19, 2007 @ 9:29 am
Now feeling stupid.
99.5%
Comment by Carla — July 19, 2007 @ 9:32 am
This was an excellent article.Greg Hession really does a good job of putting things in perspective.Thank you for posting.
The horrors of cps and fostercare are starting to make it to the surface because of the efforts of people like linda and greg Hession and just the increasing number of parents who’s fear has turned into anger and are speaking out.It seems the media is begaining to notice.
I spent time in fosterhell and I got to tell ya, you really have to have some blinders on to think your helping children and families in the least.Abuse is rampant in the system and the only ones who down play it are the ones making money off it.
Comment by Daniel — July 19, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
To Hanna and Carla,
Your commentary is an insult to falsely accused parents such as myself! My husband and I NEVER abused or neglected our children. OUr case is based on a flimsy neglect charge, and fed on by my mother and her ‘partner’. I hope people like you can live with yourselves. I have lost custody of my 3 children now! They even stole my unborn baby who there was never a case against. How cruel is that? This system sucks and needs to be reformed. Child abuse is a crime and needs to be treated as such. If you do have any integrity, read my myspace, social services suck, and then you can learn all about the injustice my husband and I have suffered and are still suffering!
Comment by Susan — July 20, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
If you read what both foster parents and birth parents have to say, you start realizing that there is something VERY wrong with the whole system.
Too many kids are yanked out of their homes for trivial reasons, and too many end up slipping through the cracks and being severely abused or murdered.
I think there needs to be some sort of independent investigation of CPS, some kind of review board that does not stand to benefit either way.
Comment by Eleanor — July 21, 2007 @ 5:47 pm
I am not the parent of a chins child I am a grandmother fighting to try to retrieve my grandson from the prision system called foster care. I have never done anything wrong but I can only have supervised visits with my grandson for 1 hour a month. My grandson, my deceased sons’s only child, whose mother is currently incarcerated until at least 2008 for drug related charges, is not allowed to call me -it is an inconvenience to his foster mother, who is warehousing 10 other children in her 3 bedroom ranch style ( double-wide) home. Foster parenting in the state of indiana is a cottage industry, this foster mother, her mother and sister, as well as her aunt all have foster children for whom they receive a subsidy as well as medical expenses. My little grandson eats his breakfast at school every day , as a foster/chin he qualifies for free meals, his foster mother can’t even feed him before she sends him off to school. I’m sorry but i can’t find the logical, reasonable reason for this to happen. The dcs’s reason for keeping him is that he has 3 half-sibs (different dads) also in foster care with him and they can’t split them up– this is a new twist. If anyone would check I would be willing to bet that 75-80% of foster children have loving , suitable, willing relatives who would care for these children at NO expense to the state. Oh and by the way the federal gov’t gives a subsidy to the states for each child placed in licensed foster care ( most kinship placements aren’t licensed–is it becoming clearer yet)
Comment by rita — July 28, 2007 @ 6:36 pm
I have to agree with exposing the tuth of cruel intentions of cps. I know that cps workers realy hate the truth then they need to change there ways if thats possible knowing cps. Ive been wondering if cps workers are actually human are programmed machines to destroy innocent lives of happy children and there families ill have to say yes given the circulmstances to what they have done in the last decade or so. Like my sons case it was like that old saying ill wash your back if you wash mine kinda case Im very suprised that cps hasnt provoked a civil war here in the us like that Rodney King incodent.
Comment by Johnny — July 29, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
jonhnny it’s hard to understand why people do’nt just do away with the cps worker at the door. but we are the ones with compasion. cps workers have no compassion thats why they keep doing this to families, it’s like they get a high from destroying families.
Comment by Christy — August 4, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
My wife and I are in the middle of a cps case right now. they have removed my children, delayed the 14 day hearing, allowed my children to be assaulted at thier safe facility, only had 1, 1 hr. visit with our 4 children within the last 4 weeks, denied us even a phone visit with them, lied on thier report, never informed us of our rights, have requested that we just concede to thier every wish because this will ” go a long way in helping us to get our children back” when they shouldn’t have been kidnapped in the first place.
What amazes me is that the ones who are abusing the children and hiding from the system are not the ones who get railroaded but the parents who are trying to follow the rules and be cooperative are the ones that are.
If you ever have the displeasure of having to deal with this Corrupt Proffit System, make sure you involve the police, never talk to them without a lawyer present, and record everything.
Comment by sean — August 9, 2007 @ 2:48 pm
Until you are one of the unlucky parents, who is rendered to feel helpless and truly know how it feels to have your child removed, you should not even comment. No one who hasn’t dealt with DCFS has the facts necessary to understand how truly evil these people can be. They are all alike as if this cult like mentality has leaked from one brain to another and created an army of anti-family anti children networks. Someone somewhere is making big money. Yes they lie, Yes they pretend they are there to help but don’t fall for it. Say nothing, they build their case by twisting statements made be parents who are trying to cooperate. Shut up shut up shut up say nothing. Opt to refuse any interview and if need be file a declaration of facts with the court clerk to avoid them twisting your statements. Never let them leave with your child and do not let them interview your kids alone. Never consent to anything. Have proof you are a “good” parent recent check ups e.t.c do not let them in your home! Do not consent to a drug test make them get a court order for anything they demand you do. Sign nothing. If you can afford it get an attorney who knows dependency cases. Face it they make money to remove your kids that is how they secure the federal funds. They are required by federal law to exhaust all avenues before removing a child which they need a court order to do by the way. Never trust or obey a single word they say. They are liars and that’s that! If you can site a violation of policy that jeopardizes Federal funding they will drop the petition. An “at risk” household will all of a sudden become safe! Acsert your constitutional rights!!! If you don’t they will trick you into losing your kids forever. Do nothing to suggest “implied consent”!
Comment by G — August 11, 2009 @ 10:21 pm