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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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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
August 30, 2007
I found this press release online today and decided to share it with you. I live in a town dominated by and divided by a tribe. I’ve had people who had to deal with the tribal child welfare agents complain to me about the way they were treated. It used to be that we believed the Indian Child Welfare Act could help some families, but now it seems to be just another way for tribes to make money. I can tell you, the tribe here has been applying for grant money for years; recently receiving over 2 million dollars in grants. It is a huge money-grab, and child welfare money is certainly part of it.
I checked out the site mentioned at the end of the following article and read some heart-breaking stories. One story mentioned that a certain tribe had only 5,000 members, but they held over 1,000 children in foster homes. – LJM
Children’s Lives Destroyed by ICWA, Says CAICW
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Across America, children that have never been near a reservation nor involved in tribal customs are routinely being removed from homes they love and placed with strangers chosen by tribes.
Though proponents of the ICWA argue that the act has safeguards to prevent misuse, scores of multi-racial children are being negativelyaffected by application of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
Over decades, numerous tribal members have married non-members and moved off the reservations. Many chose to leave because they didn’t want their children raised amid the dangers rampant in Indian Country.
However, ICWA authorizes tribal jurisdiction over any child who is a member of a tribe, or eligible for membership and the biological child of a member. Tribal governments determine their own membership and most require only 1/4 blood quantum, The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma goes further and claims jurisdiction over any child with ancestry tracing back to the Dawes Rolls no matter how minute the blood quantum. Making matters worse, some states have recently passed laws barring courts from considering whether a child or his family have any real connection to the tribe. As a result, the following occurs:
“… it was discovered she (the birthmother) is 1/128th Cherokee. That makes my son 1/256 or .0039% Native American and 99.9961% not…. His mother…was very adamant about the Cherokee Nation NOT raising her child and the court records show this. In April of 2006, we were notified of the Cherokee Nation’s intent to take us to court and remove our son from our home…. Since then, we have been in a constant state of panic….”
Any emotionally healthy child, no matter their heritage, is devastated when taken from home and forced to live with strangers. Even children of 100% tribal heritage are devastated if they’re taken from non-tribal families they love and placed with strangers they know nothing about.
The Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare (CAICW) is the only national organization advocating for families who have lost or are at risk of losing children due to misapplied and sometimes illegal application of the ICWA. The CAICW will be at the National Press Club at 12 noon, Tuesday, September 4, 2007, with affected families sharing about this growing problem.
Letters from birth parents, grandparents, foster families, pre-adoptive families, and tribal members themselves can be read at http://www.caicw.org/familystories.html.
Filed under: CPS — Linda Martin @ 2:09 am
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There are times where it is to heartrendering to comment!!
Lately it has been this way for me. I just wish I had the right sling shot to do away with the giant.
Comment by Ruth — September 1, 2007 @ 7:06 am
Get a great attorney! If the child was not on the reservation at the time of birth the tribe can not retain jurisdiction. The only way to know this is to hire an attorney that has knowledge of icwa. I am going through the same thing right now. I hired an icwa attorney in flagstaff named Jay. I live on the east coast.
The judges and attorneys don’t know the law, so they get confused and think that they have to comply with the tribe. Also, the birth parent can give you guardianship without the tribes approval.
Comment by Kim — September 3, 2007 @ 5:09 pm
I am a mother who is currently going through the pain of missing her children and feel that ICWA was and still is not done anything from preventing my daughters to be placed in a non Native American home where they are being abused and no one can do nothing because they gave custody to these people and I wish I could find a way to reverse what they did in court but I am still searching as long as it takes me I will fight for my girls!
Comment by Barb — May 8, 2008 @ 10:03 am
I am a white father fighting for custody of my half native child. I need advice on what to do and how to fight the grandparents who have contacted their tribe. My son was not born in a village, he was born in a city. Please help.
Comment by Eric — March 18, 2010 @ 3:22 pm
I have a 1 year old foster baby who is Native American. She came into my home when she was 6 wks. old. She is freed for adoption and I want to adopt her but the Nation is saying no. She was not born on a reservation, bio father is unknown, and mom relinquished rights. I want to fight for her and I don’t know where to begin. Unfortunately, I do not have the money to hire a lawyer nor do I know if that would work. She is part of our family and so very loved. Can anyone give me advice?
Comment by Jill — June 23, 2010 @ 12:17 pm
Icwa is one of the worst laws that was ever passed, i have sat and worked closely with icwa, once you really see it up close, not good at at all, icwa and tribes have no consideration for the child, its always about reunification with the parents, Please pray for my grandson, he was given back to his mother, he has had black eyes, broken fingers, and the last one was a hit on his head from his mother who is a meth addict, icwa is in total denial….
Comment by Indian Grandmother — July 1, 2010 @ 7:09 am