The Future of the FightCPS Website
I’m grateful that I’ve spent twenty years as an activist exposing America’s sick child welfare system to the light of day.
I’m grateful for the emails and comments I received telling me how much this site has helped. Those testimonials mean a lot to me and always will.
Twenty years ago this month, my fourth child was born in Central California. Before I could leave the hospital a social worker visited my room to talk to me about my history of being battered by my child’s father. Later I learned that while I was there I nearly died, and during that time my child’s father threatened the doctor, so he decided to report us to CPS. I had to leave my baby in the hospital because she was premature, and on the day she was released a social worker picked her up and left a slip of paper on my front porch.
Only a few days later I learned what it was like to go into Juvenile Court to be given a social worker’s report filled with lies. That was the day I realized that our justice system was broken, that social workers could lie and nobody cared - and that they could get away with perjury. That was the day I started learning that our Constitution doesn’t apply in Juvenile Court and that I couldn’t have a jury trial. That was the day I started realizing how ineffective public defenders are for child welfare victims.
Okay - it has been twenty years. I am one of the very lucky ones who fought back, found an activist to help me, and who succeeded in getting my child home again (after eight months of separation.) Lucky me. But I was traumatized to an extreme - not only by my shock at the injustice of the child welfare system, but also by my family’s non-support, my need to cope with being a battered woman, and the end of my relationship with the man who battered me.
Trauma takes a long time to wear off, and twenty years later — honestly, I’m still dealing with it!
When this happened to me I was working as a welfare worker in the same Department of Social Services that contained the CPS agency that attacked and lied about me. I was sickened to learn that my employer allowed these vile social workers in the CPS unit to perjure themselves, violate regulations, and be rude to young, traumatized, suffering parents. My thought was that if they were doing this to me (another DSS employee) WHAT WERE THEY DOING TO ALL THE YOUNG PARENTS WITH LESS EDUCATION AND MONEY THAN ME? I was appalled. Shocked. Disgusted. I wanted to do something to help other parents going through this wretched system of injustice, and from the time my case closed in 1990 until now, I’ve been doing what I could when I could.
My main goal at first was to expose, expose, expose. I wanted the public to know what was going on in the social services department. I was fortunately led to a local weekly paper with a similar goal - to expose local government corruption. I wrote some articles. I contacted some child welfare victims and helped a few of them to file for State Administrative Hearings. I burnt out - and needed to turn my attention to raising my two youngest children - both preschoolers at that time.
Next I started a computer bulletin board service (BBS) via the FidoNet network. Anyone here know about FidoNet? I did that for five years and during that time contacted a few child welfare victims including the woman who wrote Don’ts and Do’s When Falsely Accused… she lived nearby and we got together quite a few times. When her case closed she moved out of state.
The internet got my attention next. I was handicapped by my finances - I was unable to afford a worthy computer for quite a few years. I learned to do some webdesign, and in 2000 started the Child Protection Reform Yahoo Group (which I’ve since given away) and next I created Fight CPS And Win - now simply called FightCPS. I’ve been developing this site since October 2000 - almost nine years.
Here’s the bad news (or maybe it is good news) . . . I’m ready to do something else with my life. I feel my most important goal here has been fulfilled. That goal was to expose the system to the American public. I feel that has been done, and that we’ve reached CRITICAL MASS in that now many people are speaking out about the injustice including wonderful state legislators in Georgia and Washington. Also the news media, especially television news, is speaking out to expose the system. That didn’t happen back when I started my activism, twenty years ago. Back then even child murders in the foster system were not carried in the news media, so I’m excited when I see television news commentators exposing CPS injustice. There are also multiple developing websites to cover this issue on the internet now, many more than when I started, and I see the seeds of greatness in some of them. Very exciting stuff! So I know that when I leave, there will be others to take my place and fill in the gaps. My mission here is complete.
I will always feel as I do about the crazy, unjust, and cruel child welfare system. I have not changed but I have other things to do now. I have no more children under age eighteen. I need to focus on other things in my life now.
I don’t know what will become of FightCPS.Com — and am considering all the options at this point. I won’t leave this month or next, but I’m sure by the end of 2009 I’ll no longer be doing this. Therefore I’m ready to hear from other activists or advocates who feel able to own and maintain this website. This will require someone to move the entire site to another server, so I’m looking for someone with confidence and competency in the web skills arena. It also requires someone with outstanding writing skills.
This site has thousands of links pointing to it. It ranks well in the search engines. For that reason, I don’t want to just dump it. I worked hard to make it rank well so that people in need of help could easily find us. I think it is a valuable site for that reason, and that it would be a shame to just close it down. I really want someone else to take it over, love it, develop it, and leave it on the web as a beacon of hope to whoever goes to Google and types in “child protective services”. It is the only anti-CPS site that shows up in the first page of search results.
Anyhow, if you’re someone who could take on this project and make it work, please contact me. I’m interested in hearing from you. My webmaster email link is at the bottom of this page. Please note that if I don’t know who you are, that’s a problem. I don’t want some government-paid disinformation agent to take over this site and subvert its purpose. Getting the right person for site ownership is more important than any other consideration at this point.
I’m a website webmaster dummy and still have trouble even posting to many but I will lend any and all legal expertise I have.
You did good, Linda. You did real good. You helped me and many others.
Comment by MaggieC — April 15, 2009 @ 6:39 pm
I understand you and good luck to you After dealing with social service i will be leaving this broken country i will be moving to south africa and start a new life there with my childern and the way i look at things now a lot more people should consider leaveing as well once you deal with them you will deal with them again before you shut down your site you should put information on leaving this country
Comment by carla — April 15, 2009 @ 8:35 pm
Linda,
You have contributed immensely to awareness of the unlawful use of CPS’ power.
California, particularly, should be grateful to you for your selfless devotion to the cause of taming CPS.
Thank you for years of service. Like a Mom, you may NOT know where or who you have influenced, but you are a skilled wordsmith, a technical maven, and a good advocate for the many.
And that is the TRUE MEANING OF BROTHERHOOD : Help for your fellow man. May God bless you.
THANK YOU LINDA.
BEST. F.
Comment by fern — April 16, 2009 @ 3:52 am
Linda
I know what a hard decision this must be for you. Nobody can expect you to go forever. It’s a hard issue to devote your life to. Believe me, I know.
I offer my technical expertise to help with the transition for whoever you decide upon. Moving a site like this will be a lot of work. You have created a true gem and will always be a hero to the countless families who you have helped.
Comment by LK — April 16, 2009 @ 4:38 am
You have been an inspiration. I have been fighting the “System” on my own since 1986. This year (2009) I am still fighting. However, this time I am doing it for the goodness of ALL!. Together WE WILL make the change happen.
http://www.Care2.com has lots of opportunities for people to reach out and help one another. Everyone is welcome to go to
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/CHANGE_REFORM
Bless you for all of your efforts.
Comment by Geri M — April 17, 2009 @ 7:36 am
Linda, you will be sorely missed! It saddens me greatly to know you are leaving but I understand you need this after all your years of service.
I want to thank you for being there for me and the rest of us.
When my family was attacked your site was the first I found and with all the information I found here it gave me the strength and information I needed to fight. I only wish I would have known to be informed of the Hell cps puts you through so I could have been ready to use what I had learned before the attack. I tell everyone just because you haven’t been singled out doesn’t mean you won’t and I send them to your site to learn in advance. We are still fighting years later but, at least we had a fighting chance because of your site and the information it holds.
God Bless you in your future plans whatever they may be.
Susie
Comment by Sue... — April 20, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
Linda,
I hope this web site can be preserved. I’m not sure how; but I do feel that there is alot of historical value here. Thank you for all of your efforts to fight CPS. This web site is valuable in letting people know how and where to become involved; such as letting people know of all the petitions that are currently out there to sign on the Care 2 web site.
Comment by gingerroot — April 22, 2009 @ 7:28 am
I have been dealing with CFS/CPS since May 2001 which is going on 8 years and my children were removed for alleged domestic violence from my ex husband divorced him in 2001 shortly after the children were removed. And then CFS/CPS then gave the kids to their father not once not twice but three (3) times unsuccessfully and I was never offered or considered for any reunification no matter what I did or could do is what I was told from the beginning.. I also am now stable for Hodgkin’s disease for 10 years but have another rare disease called Behcet’s. I am a Caucasian 48 year old women and I am extremely tired and so beyond fed up with these evil ugly stupid criminal powerful beyond belief and unstoppable. Establishment that is funded and protected by tax payers whether they are right or wrong good or bad just or in just. My next court date is May 5th 2009 and I have been going to court regularly for all of these 8 long years every 3 to 6 months. My public defended Penny Scanlon removed herself even against my begging her not to leave me after years of doing absolutely nothing to help me and I later found out she was going to become and has become a Judge herself God help us all in a near by county. Then my court appointed an alternate Mitch Stevens whom also told me there was nothing he could ever do for me and really didn’t want my case but I couldn’t prove he said this to me in court or in my 2 attempts to have him replaced or removed even after a Marsden motion I did own my own. I also during my daughter’s adoption found out he became and or was married to a supervisor in the CFS/CPS organization but thankfully or not he then was subsequently fired about 2 years even after that by the Judge I think that has appointed him for not showing up and possibly being drunk or frankly just was upset with me that I wouldn’t just go away like the rest of them I am sure hoped and wanted for me to just give up die or whatever. But as you can see I haven’t died yet and I have showed up on every court date and every supervised visit and just prayed allot for God to give me the strength to press on. And so far so could but it is so difficult each and every time but my children and my love for them and my desire to be able to tell I’m sorry and that I tried my best and I never forgot them and I never gave up on them so I must still go whether I get anything done or not.. I have periodically looked at similar websites about the multiple injustices of the CFS/CPS and ordinarily people like me that have lost their children. But I have broken down and I would sometimes actually get physically sick or just sob uncontrollably and even while writing this now I have broke down a couple of times but pulled myself together I guess I don’t really know how I can even explain it all but I am trying my best. And I hope I make some sense and that someone will be able to understand it all and will believe me even though I just feel its not fixable and I question every time before I show up to court if I should even go inside alone and feeling so sad. But I always do no matter what and I try to remain calm and focused and human still. And I always seem to reach a point where I ask the Judge if I may speak and he allows me after my atty says no and he advises me also not to but I do anyway and he agrees. I must pick the most important things that I can think of because I only get a few seconds or maybe its minutes I don’t know like not being able to see my daughter Mireya since 2005 when she was adopted. She is 10 now and that her brother my other son who is 14 now Marin Daniel Dimitrov doesn’t even remembers her anymore. He is still in foster care and has been moved over 20 times in these 8 long terrible years… I have never had or been given unsupervised visits but last month they were finally modified. I have had 1 visit at my home completely unsupervised. I should be happy right but I am not. When it came time to take him to the Bart station I was fighting the tears and the feelings of desperation and longing desire to never return him but I knew there was no way. So my heart that has already been ripped out stomped on and broken into millions of pieces was once again pounded into nothingness hopelessness and void of any more damage yet damaged once again.
Or that my now new appointed atty can’t even pronounce my daughter’s name correctly and hasn’t ever met with me outside of the walls and behind court doors to discuss anything about my case. Except one time when I had to force him thru his supervisor and numerous calls to the their office complaining but it was clear at our only appointment we ever had together that he was only going thru the motions and was no different than all the others that came before him.. Or that I am sick again and that I wanted the courts and the Judge to be aware of my dilemma in the event I became too ill to attend court of possibly worst. Meaning my Behcet’s disease just recently diagnosed and confirmed around 5 months ago now…My ex husband as had unsupervised visits
From the beginning and my son is very bonded to him and prefers his father over me and always has. But recently CFS/CPS took away limited these visits with his father because he has been sharing them with me meaning he brings him to me drops him off and this is nothing everyone knows it especially CFS/CPS for years now but I lost my temper about Martin not being able to see his dad anymore with the foster mother and that I was not given sufficient or any notice for this past Easter I found out the foster mother had called me the night before to arrange a visit for me but I was out of the state and I couldn’t be there to see him this would have been out first Easter since 2001. I also felt it was unappreciated to now try to penalize Roumen when in reality and especially at Martin’s age now .it would only hurt Martin the most and was unfair and cruel really. So I have now heard that Roumen Dimitrov my ex husband and Martin’s father I think has all his visits returned but this has caused more friction between all of us really but primarily between Roumen and I. He I am sure he will probably never speak to me about Martin again or even consider sharing information and of course never let Martin call me or bring him to me again. Understandable but not right.
What else is new?
So this is some of my story and I appreciate you letting me tell it
Thank You
Margaret ( Meg ) Salisbury Dimitrov
I am sorry you are leaving because I think we need everyone and anyone that has something to say and share to not give up the fight even though I also understand and would probably do…same if I had my kids and they were over 18 or 21
Thank you again and God Bless You and Keep You and Yours.
Comment by Meg ( Margaret E. Salisbury Dimitrofv — April 23, 2009 @ 5:41 am
sorry the spelling of my name was incorrect thank you
Comment by Meg ( Margaret E. Salisbury Dimitrov — April 23, 2009 @ 5:42 am
You will be sorely missed, I found this site way to late to help me. But you were a shining beacon of hope in what I call CPS ,s darkness. I have fought very hard to change things here in my own state so far its fallen on deaf ears. Lets hope this shining beacon doesnt go out and good luck in whatever path life takes you down. (HUGS)
Comment by James E Currier — April 23, 2009 @ 8:32 am
Has anybody had any experience in referring their case for oversight with the State of California Dept of Social Services? I am in the process of doing that now. I am also making a complaint with the Commission on Judicial Performance and referring 2 attorneys to the State Bar for lying. Has anyone had any experience with this method? Up here in Sacramento, I smell blood in the water as far as CPS is concerned. Go SacramentoBee.
Comment by Karen Solberg — April 24, 2009 @ 9:45 am
I am so glad that you started this website! I thank you! My children Frakie Rose and Chris were taken from me. CPS put them up for adoption.
I Know that cps is heartless but the sw I had was horrid. Such lies and pain. I have nightmares of what happened.
The cps was investigated by a Grand Jury and many children were returned. Mine were gone by the time this happened.The adoption is a closed one of course. Im sorry to be rambling on.
I appreciate the website and together we can get justice!
I haven’t seen my children in 8 long years.
Comment by Rebecca — April 28, 2009 @ 4:18 am
(((Rebecca))) I’m so sorry your children are missing… what a terrible tragedy this is, for so many parents and children!
Comment by LindaJoMartin — April 28, 2009 @ 9:40 am
I would love to volunteer myself, but I have no idea where you find all of your useful information or how to run a website.
It will be a shame to see this site go, but we all have to move on with our lives at some point.
Comment by bdaddiction — April 28, 2009 @ 4:04 pm
I agree with all others in saying Linda you have done a great job. I am too will volunteer myself to continue this move of knowledge to assure many other parents who thought as I did “this will never happen to me” but did and felt alone when the journey first began. This has been a learning experience but one I feel we must continue. Some things have change but the journey should continue for those families that look to this site and all other links via fightcps for support. This maybe their only support throught this time. I was one of the blessed one who took the information given to me and ran with it and shortly my kids were returned quickly. Sadly, thats not everybody story. Again, job well done!!!!
Comment by Crystal — May 2, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
Thanks, I appreciate your kind words.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — May 3, 2009 @ 12:53 am
Dear Linda, A million thank you’s would not be enough. I so hope that you can find someone to help you with all of this, for I know for a fact many people have been literally saved by finding you, and then finding me, and presumably finding those like me. I am an attorney who many people call on through your website. I help as many as I can (for example, I’ve taken eight days off this year - every other day in the office anywhere from 10 to 12 hours), but your site allows those families being invaded by these Nazis able to find other attorneys, and I’m sure many have been saved by good counsel, the problem is, there simply isn’t enough of us, not even close. Of course the other problem is that the system is so broken it wouldn’t matter half of the time if God or Jesus himself were your lead counsel. The insanity runs deep, the mixture of arrogance and ignorance is blended thick, and the hundreds of thousands who feed at the monetary trough of it all, aren’t ever going to go away quietly.
What you have done is wonderful, and though I personally am not a particularly religious person, if you are, you’re going wherever it is you believe the very best humanity has to offer end up going.
I can’t offer to help, but trust that my very best wishes are with you in moving on and in preserving this site, for there are unknown families and children who right at this moment may think life is a plum, and tomorrow may find themselves in the grips of a myopic government organization that care for little more than its own preservation.
Thank you again, thank you, thank you, thank you, to infinity!
Bob Powell
Comment by Robert Powell — May 3, 2009 @ 5:45 pm
Thanks so much, Bob… I will print this out and keep it probably forever! (Along with the other wonderful comments I’ve received.) Thanks for taking time to write this!
Comment by LindaJoMartin — May 3, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
i’m sorry to hear you are leaveing also wish i had of known you had this site 8 years ago i had no one to talk to that would listen some times that helps more than any thing but once your kids are stolen by the state you end up not having very many friends or family during the time my grandaughter was in care of the state they taught her all about devil worshipping lip rings pierceing all over her face and other places she ha stold me she a miscarriage now how that happen is beon me any way it is a battle fighting the state yjey make you feelor try tomake you feel like every door youopen gets slam in your face. but some things keeps pushing me to keep on fighting for my grandkids maybe its the love i have for them and i know they are not happy where they are at the day th ey took my grandkids they took my heart i’m going to write letters some one has to have a heart that will listen god bless you
Comment by taffy — May 3, 2009 @ 10:22 pm
Taffy - keep writing those letters!! It may seem like nobody is listening, but more and more we’re seeing that they are beginning to understand the true situation. Try state legislators.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — May 4, 2009 @ 12:04 am
Linda, your site has been a blessing to me even years after my case was closed. I only wish it had been around during the CPS witch-hunts of the 1980’s. Trauma does take a long time to wear off and I’m not sure it ever really does. That someone could invade my home, turn my life inside out, threaten to put my child in foster care, twist my words and use them against me, is still something I can’t get past. An anonymous phone call by a malicious neighbor who barely knew me destroyed my life. For years afterward, I suffered from paralyzing fear that my child would be taken away from me, even though I had moved away from my old neighborhood. I found it hard to make new friends because I didn’t trust anyone. I never quite got back the joy I experienced when I held my newborn daughter for the first time. I knew how fragile that joy was, how it could be ripped apart in an instant. Just recently I drove through my old neighborhood and found the house where I lived when this happened. I also noted the close proximity of the house next door, where the malicious neighbor had lived. She had probably been watching me for a long time through the big picture window that faced my former residence. I remembered how trapped, isolated, and victimized I felt.
I wish you well in whatever new venue you undertake. This site is a job well done.
Comment by Judy — May 4, 2009 @ 5:53 am
THANK YOU!
Comment by CPSsucks — May 5, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
Oh, Linda, I want to say don’t go… But at the same time I understand. I have had to leave and recoup many, many times.
If it wasn’t for you and fightcps.com my granddaughter would be dead.. You and this sight helped me get her in only 7 wks..
She is back home and has been for quite some time now. However, she has issues from what I believe is from what CPS did to her. Her health is now normal, but she has been thrown out of one daycare and about to be thrown out of a second one..
If we could only tell the people what happened to her. She is a bully… I fully believe that is what happened to her at such an early age (she had to fight for her life at only 3-5 months old).
Thank you sooooo much for what you have done.. I know you have helped hundreds if not a million or so families the same way you helped me and my family..
God Bless you!
Comment by Diando — May 13, 2009 @ 3:49 pm
here is the true story of my experience with CPS. I moved my three kids and I to texas while my husband was overseas with the US navy. While there I got a job as a security officer to make ends meet and sense my family lived so close I asked my sister to baby sit for me of which she did and I paid her good money for. My sister lost a daughter to SIDS a while before and she had a son that was only six months older than my youngest two kids so I thought sense they were so close in age and she was very potective like me because of the lose of her daughter she would be great to take care of my kids. Well after a while she started getting weird and the price kept going up for little things. Then she said she did not want to get up so early in the morning so if I wanted her to keep the kids I had to drop them off at night and pay her more to keep them overnight. I did for a while because I had to be at work at five in the morning and daycares in my area did not open up until five or later. I was not happy with the situation because she had become possesive with my kids and I would come home from work pick them up and have to go back a few hours later to drop them off. It was as if my sister was trying to take over as mom so I talked to my mom and told her that I was going to look for a different job or daycare so I did not have to abide by her crazy high prices and I would get to be with my kids more. Not to long after that conversation with my mom while at work one day I got a phone call from a liberty county CPS case worker with the initals RJ. This women said she had talked to my daughter twice at school and that she needed to meet with me that day. I asked alot of questions like is something wrong with my daughter and whats going on but she just told me that I needed to come and meet with her asap. After I got off the phone with RJ I was dumbfounded so I called my sister because i could not get a hold of my mom and she told me it is probably nothing and that she would call my mom and have her meet with me. I got my kids and went home and my mom and the CPS worker RJ showed up. RJ started asking me questions like do you abuse your daughter and who keeps her and do you think your husband has molested your daughters. I was so confussed as to why she was asking me these questions until she said well I can’t tell you who has reported you but here is what they reported. The person that reported you said that You frequently abuse your kids with a belt, that your son is slow meaning mentally chalanged and that I have been told this and will not do anything about it, that my father-in-law and husband molested my daughter, that I have have not refilled prescriptions for my youngest daughter that has a kidney problem and has to take daily medication and she had yellow feet which is a sign of kidney failor, That i go on dates with sex offenders and bring them around my children, along with some other really off the wall stuff. I talked to RJ for a while disputing the clams and she acted as if she was a doctor looking at my youngest daughters feet and saying yes they are yellow. She checked her prescriptions which were up to date but she was not satisfied with any of it so she went to call her boss to see if the kids could stay with me or if she was going to take them with her. In the mean time I looked at my mom and said That My sister did this and she knew about it which she denied and I said she wants my kids which my mom denied and sense I could see it written all over her face that she was lying I told he to leave my house. So she went and talked to RJ about taking my kid away from me. RJ came back in and said that she was not going to take the kids but I had to take them to the doctor and have my oldest checked for molestation, my youngest daughter checked for kidney failor and my son checked out for a mental disability. I thought this is going to be easy because i know they are all ok and once I do this the case will be closed. I took my youngest two to the doctor the next day and of course they said my son did not have and mental problems and my daughter was not showing any signs of kidney failor but that was not good enough for RJ So I had to get the doctor to put it in writing. I took my oldest daughter to a CPS counselor as required so they could talk to her and see if she was molested but after the visit RJ said my daughter had changed her story and she feels someone has told her not to say anything. I put her in regular counseling and had her tested by her doctor whom said that she is not showing signs phiscally or otherwise of being molested. That was not good enough for RJ. I did everything they asked and nothing was good enough because in the eyes of RJ I was guilty until she was absolutely sure that I was innocent. They came to my house once a week. One time another case worker was headed to my house and I was going in the opposite direction but she saw me even though I did not see her so she made a u-turn and followed me honking her horn until I pulled over. I was just trying to pay my bills and I did not even see her but right in the middle of town there she was waving me over so she could ask questions and check out the kids in the back of my car. I felt like they felt they could take advantage of me and make me jump through hoops for them because my husband was not there and they made sure that he was not going to come around because they did not want him or my father-in-law to have contact with my girls over a false accusation. After almost four months of jumping through hoops for them RJ did not even have the common courtesy to call me and tell me my case was closed I called to ask if there was anything else they needed and the other case worker told me they were done and my case had been closed. They litterely harrassed me and made me think if I did not do every little thing they said my kids would be taken from me and my husband. I was embarassed and heartbroken that my sister could put me through this because I was taking money away from her by getting another daycare and because I know deep down she wanted to take my kids. The reason I tell my story now is because I want future victums of false accusation from CPS to know that they are not alone and not to do what I did and just assume that sense you know that the accusations are false that it will be an easy process. It is not an easy process when dealing with people like RJ in places like liberty county Texas because they do not want to believe you. Get a lawyer right away. You do not have to take there crap if you have been falsely accused. It is heartbreaking, embarassing, and depressing and you never think it will go away but it does and like I said before you are not alone.
Comment by Kristi Porter — May 15, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
OH NO LINDA I AM TRULEY SAD THAT YOUR LEAVING US. I THINK WE ALL HAVE PUT OUR HEARTS OUT FOR THE HELP AND YOU HAVE GIVEN ALL OF US SO MUCH HELP AND THERES NO ONE THAT COULD EVER TAKE YOUR PLACE IN THE COMPASSION YOU HAVE GIVE US AS FAMILYS AND IM SORRY BECOMING ALITTLE EMOTIONAL BUT IN MY CASE YOU HAVE HELPED ME BY GIVING ME SOME HOPE AND THE COURAGE TO KEEP FIGHTING THE BATTLES CPS THROW AT US. THIS SITE HAS BEEN COMPLEATLY AMAZING AND HELPFUL TO FAMILYS WHO JUST NEED ONE PERSON TO LISTEN AND BE ON YOUR SIDE.I AM SAD TO SEE YOU GO YOUR TRULEY AN ANGEL THANKS FOR ALL YOU’VE DONE.
Comment by LISA — May 23, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
I wish you weren’t leaving. I do hope saome one deos take over this site. I jsut found it this morning. It is 1 yr after the first knock on my door of CPS and I had never any prior dealings with them. Kids are back and case is closed after dongi what they wanted and no one ever proving the aligations,and after I showed them there was nothing mentaly wrong with me and taking a parenting class which teaches that simply yelling in front of yuor kids is considered abuse (which they did nto provide me copies of my class work to prove this ) . I am haunted by what happend,it still feels like yesterday and I have the daily anxieties of always worrying if everything is perfect enough or if they will come knocking on the door again. And some people tell me I am periniod. This is not perinoia, it is Post traumatic stress and NORMAL for ANYONE to feel this kind of anxiety after gonig thruogh having your kids removed just to prove you did nothing .Thank god they did not suffer in a foster home. I feel extreley sorry for those who do suffer, and I used to want to be a foster parent. NOT ANY MORE ! Shame On you “manated reporters” who think you are helping a child who is really extremely loved and never abused . YOu must either have so much hate in your hearts or are so ignorant to not know the pain you cause others when you make a anonymous call and do not know the whole story,or think you know something is happening,when it is not . do you really think some of these families are spending 50-200,000 on attorneyes to fight CPS are really guilty? Some of us fight because we are innocent,and most of us can’t because we can’t afford it,and it makes it worse when the family has less $ because the less $ you have,the less you will be heard ,in this day in age
Comment by Christine — May 25, 2009 @ 8:48 am
Bergen, Norway
23 June, 2009
Dear Linda,
You will be greatly missed. People are struggling in the same way here in Europe. Your website was one of the first I found outside Scandinavia (I think through the site JoinHands, which was at that time a debate site for people hit by the cps and for adopteds searching for their relatives) and I cannot adequately tell you of the warm hope “Fight CPS and Win” gave us in that we were not alone. - It may sound awful to say that the predicament of cps quackery and harmful practices in other countries actually gave us hope. But the reason is not that we want anybody to suffer the same. It is rather that the near identical horror in every country that starts expanding its social services and clinical psychology gives greater hope of getting the information about this out to the public at last. I myself do not have the cps in my life but I have been writing and trying to help those who have for almost as long as you, Linda.
I very much hope that you can find someone NEARLY as good as yourself to continue the FightCPS-site, or at least keep it intact. It is very valuable to us all. Over the years I have seen a number of good internet sites fighting awful social “service” activities destroyed by the authorities in various countries, in order to shut the victims up. But new ones crop up also. In the long run I hope the internet, which provides real freedom of speech, will win out. However, FightCPS is one of the most valuable of all such sites and it simply MUST NOT disappear. So, I hope for a continuation.
Thank you very much, dear Linda. I wish I could meet you some time.
Warm greetings from Norway,
Marianne Haslev Skanland (the a in Skan- actually has a ring over it in our spelling, but I am the same even with my name spelled without it!)
PS: Just now a young couple are on their way, driving 700 kilometres to fetch their two children home. They have been persecuted, maligned and lied on by cps workers, psychologists and judges for a long time but succeeded in winning their case this time because a couple of lay members of the board reacted as sensible human beings and voted against the lackeys. And a rare psychologist did too.
Comment by Marianne Haslev Skanland — June 22, 2009 @ 11:00 pm
So good to hear from you again, Marianne . . . it has been a long time! Thanks for all the good thoughts about FightCPS. I think the same type agency is present in many if not most countries now because the orders for doing this come from an international group - perhaps the Bilderbergers or Council for Foreign Relations, something like that.
For some reason whoever is doing this wants families torn apart. THIS TOO WILL PASS. I do not for a moment believe that these ill-intentioned people will be successful in their oppression of us forever. I believe in the power of intention and belief. My intention is that families will be free to live without fear of family destruction government agencies. I don’t know when the change will take place — or how. I only know it has to happen. In the meantime my intention is to help give information and support to the victims of these evil policies.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — June 23, 2009 @ 10:19 am
Linda,
I just wanted you to know how much your website helped my family in our fight with CPS. I couldn’t count the hours and days I spent reading,strategizing, and note-taking here. I truly believe we wouldn’t have won our case without the invaluable information I found here.
I recommended your site to my attorney so that she could pass it along to others fighting CPS. I pray that someone capable, and true to the cause will take over, and for all of the families fighting for their lives against CPS.
With utmost gratitude,
Lisa
Comment by Lisa — June 30, 2009 @ 1:41 pm
I just found this site a couple of months ago after I received the decision in the mail that I lost my fair hearing. I started googling everything about fighting cps like a mad woman and I am still doing so until this day. Finding this site gave me courage, knowledge and the feeling of knowing I am not alone with fighting this decision. I still have a lot of work and fighting ahead of me as I am filing an article 78 appeal in supreme court and I only have 3 more months to do it. I have almost no money to pay for a lawyer and I have exhausted myself trying to find a “pro bono” lawyer, only to be disappointed in my search. Worst case scenario I will fight this on my own. God wants me to fight this and he knows that I should not be labeled as an inadequate guardian in the child abuse registry. As long as God is on my side that is all I need, he is my lawyer, I will win my case. Thanks again for this site, and that is awesome to live the rest of your life Linda, knowing that you impacted peoples lives probably more than you will ever know. It brings tears to my eyes, God Bless!
Comment by Melissa Delgaudio — July 8, 2009 @ 5:26 pm
the d h s came into my home and took my husband of 40 years. in turn that opened the door for my litte girls dad to get her. she is now in the house with a pedifile. she and i boooth need help !!!!!!!
Comment by jw — October 29, 2009 @ 3:49 pm
please help me.my husband was taken by the d h s.when that happened the dad of my little girl got her.she is now in the home of a pedifile.we had been married 40 years.i had custody of my chilld 2 years.she is in danger!!!!!!
Comment by jw — October 29, 2009 @ 3:55 pm