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Child Protective Services laws and agencies are abusive to families and children. This site provides support and information to parents falsely accused of child abuse by Child Protective Services.
FightCPS does not advocate or condone violence or illiegal activities of any kind.
FightCPS is intended to help people learn enough about the law to be able to successfully defend themselves and their families against false accusations using legal documents and strategies that put parents in a stronger position when they go back to court.
For more information, see the FAQ.
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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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
September 17, 2011
CPS social workers rarely help families in the right way. In situations where they could lend a hand, they fail. They know only one avenue of response – and that is to destroy a family, to traumatize children and their parents. That’s what they’re trained to do. That’s how the agency gets funded.
I rarely write about my own CPS case which happened more than twenty years ago. It started because my baby’s father battered me when I was pregnant. I’ve always thought that if a social worker had told me “You will lose your child if you don’t leave her father,” I would have immediately done everything I could to separate permanently for the safety of my child. It would have been a great help if the social service agency had helped me relocate.
However, those words were never said to me. Nobody helped me. They told me they couldn’t, and that they were just there to help my infant by placing her in a different home. That was the only solution they had to my situation. They left me there in that place with a much-more stressed out man who reacted by hitting me more, falling apart mentally, and breaking things.
The trauma of losing my child was augmented by the trauma of trying to move away from a man who battered me. It wasn’t easy, but I eventually did it and proved that I was no longer with him, and got my child back. Like many of you I’ve been traumatized, probably for life. After twenty years my feelings haven’t faded, and that’s why there’s a FightCPS website.
Recently a situation came up that caused me to open that old file of papers from the CPS case days, and I remembered my main complaint – that they never said to me that I needed to leave him. Instead they just took my child and left me in the situation, to suffer. If they had only warned me and helped me move, I would never have lost my child to them for eight months.
So I’m wondering — what it is that the caseworker should have said to you to help you with your situation, to make things all better, to prevent the government abduction of your child or children? Or was there no simple solution?
I cannot help but believe that most parents would do anything in their power to assure their children’s safety and well-being, if only given the chance.
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I begged the Cps workers for help because my son was out of control and abusive to me and his siblings but they said sorry we can’t do anything either press charges or leave him in a mental ward and he will get help they didn’t mention that they would take all three kids and prevent me from seeing them except limited times. They admit now they were wrong but they still treat me badly and won’t give me my kids back. I’m just plain fed up with the amount of lies that come out of those government offices. It has been almost two years and I am still fighting to get them back
Comment by Kathryn — September 18, 2011 @ 4:38 am
U REAAALLY MAKE THIS BLOG L(.)(.)K BAD & YOURSELF A MOLE. HOW LAME…
Comment by Siskiyou County Calif — September 18, 2011 @ 5:05 am
Marilyn, I am not a mole. What I wrote was from the heart. Sorry you didn’t like it.
Comment by Linda Martin — September 18, 2011 @ 8:44 am
Kathryn, I think we had the perception that social workers should be compassionate people who want to really help people with their serious personal problems. Unfortunately CPS has co-opted the term “social worker” and trained them to do only one thing – take children away from parents. Problem is, they’re taking kids from non-abusive parents who love and care for them, and causing trauma for all involved. I would like to see social work go back to being compassionate and based on individual situations and best solutions, rather than on following government regulations to separate children from their families. Our tax dollars could be much better spent on resolving problems rather than causing more.
Comment by Linda Martin — September 18, 2011 @ 8:55 am
Just be careful who you trust! Before my child was taken away by CPS, I was also under the impression that the job of social workers is to do what is best for the family and children. The public needs to understand that CPS does not investigate anything once they have taken a child. They work very hard at keeping the child from their family but they do nothing to verify the truth or reunify the family – even if “reunification” is part of the plan ordered by the judge! We have been fighting for our daughter for one year now, and we do not see an end to this…….It is a sick system that hurts children and families! Social services needs to be challenged and it needs to be changed!
Comment by Concerned — September 18, 2011 @ 2:08 pm
After a year of my daughter doing services where I was having to drive her everyday, we realized that Cps was never going to give my grandson back. I will no longer allow the social worker in my house nor will my daughter and I speak with them on the phone. They have violated my daughters rights so much. She could file a lawsuit and probably win. Why cooperate when they don’t do their job. So tired so angry. Not giving up just changing stradegy.
Comment by julie grandmother — September 19, 2011 @ 5:10 am
To: Linda Martin
FALSE ACCUSATION
September 19, 2011
My name is FLORDELIZA ARROJO AYSON / VILORIA, I am from SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98146.
On SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 I am ONE of the SEATTLE TACOMA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTSECURITY thats DEALING with ( 9/11/2001 TERRORIZYM EMERGENCY. during the time i was working TWENTY hours seven days per week, My husband and Three childrens DISAPPEARED, All FOUR of them are MISSING in ACTION for few MONTHS.
I called 911 emergency, Police, Facilitators office and FAMILY DEPENDENCY COURT JUDGE to REPORT the DISAPPEARANCE of my THREE childrens and my DIEYING husband. Only have SIX months to LIVE.
The FAMIILY DEPENDENCY COURT JUDGE OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY in EVERETT told my husband to RETURNED all of my THREE childrens BACK to me. So, IGOT my childrens BACK. in October 2003.
All of my FOUR childrens and I are been LIVING so QUITLY every day. I got LAID OFF at my JOB at SEATTLE TACOMA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SECURITY. I was OFFERED to go back to SCHOOL by the (FAA) FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATIONS. I went back to COLLEGE i was taking ACCOUNTING 101 after few months, I went to DSHS/CHILD SUPPORT EMFORCEMENT AGENCIES to get some HELP. My Husband the father of my childrens is DESPUTING to PAY me CHILD SUPPORT. I NEVER got any HELP from NEITHER of the DEPARTMENTS. I GOT DESTROYED MORE from the DEPARTMENT. All my childrens continued GOING to SCHOOL every day.
One day, I CAME HOME from my SCHOOL, And ALL of my CHILDRENS, NEVER RETURNED home from their SCHOOL. ALL of my CHILDRENS are KIDNAPPED. On FEBRUARY 11TH, 2004.
I was LOOKING for my FOUR childrens for FEW WEEKS.
One day on MARCH 39th, 2004, I was WHATCHING the 12:00 oclock noon news, Their is a FATAL ACCIDENT on POULSBO, WASHINGTON HIGHWAY 3, I SAW the VAN thats LOOKING FAMILIAR to me. Inside the DAMAGES VAN, I SAW a TENNIES SHOES of my YOUNGER SON name: DANIEL AYSON VILORIA (7&3months old) (DEAD) my 14 years old older Son name EMILIO KIOKI AYSON VILORIA 111rd was BADLY injured, almost DIED also..
ALL OF MY FOUR CHILDRENS are KIDNAPPED by CITY OF MUKILTEO POLICE DEPARTMENT and DSHS MUKILTEO SCHOOL DISTRICT NO:, 6 OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY SCHOOL DSHS CPS, On FEBRUARY 11th, 2004 before! the FATAL ACCIDENT.
On FEBRUARY 11th, 2004 I was FALSELY ACCUSED OF FAMILY ABONDONMENT.
Until now, Iam still DEALING with it?.
Linda, I have a Question to you, Are we only going to CRY about all of this ISSUES? and just keep SENDING email back and forth to each other? or are WE both going to MEET one day to TALK about, What! We are GOING TO DO?. time is been PASSING bye, and untill now, We are NOT, DOING anything about this ISSUES?.
I AM STILL BEING ATTACK BY THE (CAPTA FAMILY ORGANIZATIONS OF STATE/ FEDERAL/ CITY/ COUNTY etc.,
Please, call me?, at (206) 999 – 9062 or send me EMAIL at FAA.JANITORIALAGENCY-at-YAHOO.COM
I am also a VICTIM like you, Iam still looking for more people to trable and help other VICTIMS like you and me?.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!!DID NOT!!!HAPPENED TO YOU………………….By:
Flordeliza Arrojo Ayson / Viloria (Loving Mother Of My FOUR CHILDRENS & GRAND CHILDRENS)
Comment by Flordeliza Arrojo Ayson Viloria — September 19, 2011 @ 6:06 am
Linda, It breaks my heart to read about your former abuse from a man who should have loved, honored and cherished both you and your baby… And when someone could have helped (CPS) they only added to your pain by separating you from your precious baby. I pray the good Lord will bless both you and your daughter and heal your broken hearts. Thanks for sharing your story. It will help others in similar situations.
Comment by Angela Wittman — September 19, 2011 @ 9:53 am
Reminds me of the mother who went to the wrong government office to ask about breastfeeding and ended up convicted of molesting her baby.
Comment by Al — September 19, 2011 @ 1:19 pm
Linda – you are not a mole and thanks for sharing. I share similarities to you. I had to give up/lose my life style, home, career, friends, untrustworthy family, and now my health- trying to get my kids to safety. When I got the “lack of desire to help” or “nothing we can do” or “if we arrest him, we have to arrest you cause you hit him back:, or “filing fee costs and we still have to serve them and you have to face them in court, you could be followed etc” or “not their problem” from police, courts; family, etc. – something clicked and told me – for the sake of my babies – I was gonna have to step out on faith and do it without govt help.
So..for a chance at life without the scars – I packed the trunk of my car for weeks, moving clothes little by little. Then when things were set – we left in the night – before he was due to come lurk outside the house as had become the custom.
My abuser found us again and has started up – gently. When i told a third party -I’m out of money, aint running no more; aint promising a picnic when they knock on my door; and would not give in and take myself out without taking him too – that person reported my vigilance (paranoia) and pending murder suicide to CPS, along with abuse and neglect.
CPS have acknowledged verbally not finding abuse or neglect; and will only put on paper that I wont cooperate by telling them specific incidents, dates, times, locations, names, etc. How that determines whether I abuse or neglect my kids now- I dont see. So my refusal to go back to a state of major fear, emotional death etc – that i’ve spent time trying to recover from…..is grounds for taking my kids.
Not once have they said – we will get new TPO’s, sever legal rights, help with name changes, and then get us moved AGAIN.
They will sure as day, contact that part of my life. And sure as day – I can expect things to increase a couple notches – and we are just sitting ducks.
I already live knowing that one day I will get that knock on the door. My prayer has been that enough time passes to when the knock comes.. there’s a mindset of repentance, forgiveness. Recent calls confirm- we’re not there yet. so i gotta wait – and protect me and mine until that time does come. If it means not doing anything to make him/them (his cohorts in crime) madder at me..that’s what I gotta do.
Comment by Bgorda — September 20, 2011 @ 8:58 am
CPS, by whatever name or acronym known in a particular state, is a “growth industry.” CPS does not solidify and justify its need for more personnel and funding by keeping families together. The entire incentive is to break up families and to place children in foster care. Even adoption is not first priority for CPS as once adopted the child is pretty much out of the power of CPS (unless there are “referrals” on the adoptive family). The incentive is to keep them in foster care as this means more supervisory personnel and more funding flowing through the CPS system.
That it is no worse than it is at present is due entirely to the remaining morality of the caseworkers, who have at least some conscientious opposition to breaking families apart. This, of course, varies enormously from one caseworker to the next. One may do nothing but generate the paperwork necessary to break up families and put the children into foster care. The next may be to the opposite extreme, leaving children with grossly abusive parents when they should be removed. These likely will not be with CPS for long as it doesn’t contribute to CPS empire-building.
Comment by Bob — September 20, 2011 @ 9:24 am
After months of research, I’ve found that CPS nationwide is in serious need of reform. Besides raising public awareness on websites such as this one, what is the solution to effect reform? I’ve tried state legislators and the governor. No one cares to listen.
Comment by Marilyn Y — September 20, 2011 @ 1:41 pm
I have been in the field for 11 years with a small county in upstate NY. Occasionally my co workers or I will check in on this site and get ourselves riled up for the generalizations that are on here. Your case obviously has more detail than is listed here, as are all the other cases. Do you really feel like we want to remove kids? Why? You say funding, but we do not get more funding for taking kids. In fact, it costs us more local dollars for foster care, we do everything we can to avoid this. I promise you, no CPS worker will say “you need to leave him or you will lose your child”. We are trained not to impose judgements or say things we can’t follow through on. The decision to remove a child or file a neglect/abuse petition is made by several DSS employees, not one caseworker or supervisor. I could never say I’m going to remove your child, that isn’t my decision alone.
Comment by cpsworker — September 20, 2011 @ 3:57 pm
I am amazed at the CPS system and the neglect that they call foster care. Our daughter is in a single-parent foster home where she is left home alone for 10-12 hours each day. I wonder if the report of the CASA volunteer – which mentions this problem – can help.
Comment by prayerwarrior — September 20, 2011 @ 6:33 pm
Marilyn Y, I think State Sovereignty is the answer!
Comment by Linda Martin — September 20, 2011 @ 11:41 pm
CPS caseworker, do you get paid? Do you value your job? Perhaps that’s why you remove children from their homes. There’s money involved, there always is, on many levels.
Comment by Linda Martin — September 20, 2011 @ 11:43 pm
Prayerwarrior, yes, the CASA report can make or break a case… especially if they go against the caseworker, which is extremely rare as I understand it.
Comment by Linda Martin — September 20, 2011 @ 11:44 pm
I am a now 20 yrs old mother of two gorgeous kids. Cps took them from me while I was in jail after defending myself against my abusive young boyfriend who was the father of only one of my children. The case only involved one of my son but they took my daughter just because. They took my rights away with a document I was tricked in signing. At this time I did not know that my appointed attorney was on cps side. but thanks to this site I have learned a lot. And I’m going to file a civil suit to get them back. Even if it takes 10 yrs. I WILL NOT GIVE UP. I NEVER KNEW HOW COLD THIS WORLD COULD BE. YOU’RE NOT EVEN PROTECTED BY THE GOV’T. BUT I WILL SUCCEED. BECAUSE GOD KNOWS MY HEART AND THE TYPE OF MOTHER I AM!!!! THANKS FOR YOUR HELP
DALLAS,TEXAS
Comment by Jerica — September 22, 2011 @ 7:38 am
I am concerned about the fact three times as many women try suicide than men. It is a woman’s nature to nurture. So I believe when they are at their wits end and sorely depressed, as after murder of a child in their womb, social services taking them, or abuse of themselves and their children, they see no other way out. When the evil rule, the people moan: proverbs 29.
Comment by Carl G. Oehling — September 23, 2011 @ 11:06 am
CPS worker…in response to your comment “I promise you, no CPS worker will say “you need to leave him or you will lose your child”. We are trained not to impose judgements or say things we can’t follow through on.”….I say…that is a bold statement since you can only speak for yourself….your sister unit in MN ….said exactly that to me and I had it said to me by numerous workers …you may want to retract that statement …it makes it seem like most of what is being said by CPS is in fact…FALSE!
Comment by Broken Soul — September 24, 2011 @ 9:05 am
To cpsworker,
Isn’t it true that CASA, Child advocacy centers are beholden to their political supporters. In many instances they are extensions of political agendas and need to maintain agendas and quotas. Don’t tell me! I lived it first hand! Your techniques are nothing more than gossip and “junk science.” You can no more tell if a child has been abused than I can! As for taking care of children when you take them away from their “abusive homes”, I think you do more harm with your blundering than you realize. It looks good on paper but so did SOLYNDRA.
Comment by J — September 25, 2011 @ 12:46 am
I have also had a run in with cps in 2 different states. They look for issues so they can justify their jobs and retain employees. I have seen so many cases where good parents have been raked over the coals for the smallest things.
My ex-boyfriend, took my kids for a 2-week “vacation” never returned them. The next thing I know they are enrolled in school in CA and the school had no contact information for me. I started making phone calls but because there was no parenting plan in place I got no help from the police. I went to CA twice to see my kids and he wouldn’t let me hardly even talk to them on the phone. I left some pretty nasty messages (not threatening) that he recorded. He went to court and was granted full custody with a 3-yr. restraining order.
I contacted the cps worker and asked if they had checked into his criminal background, they said yes. So they must know about the prior assault charge, him being arrested for holding a gun to my head while pregnant and his federal drug conviction. He is currently facing 6 felony drug charges. Plus he’s never held a regular job.
CPS needs to do a better job investigating before acting. THEY ARE THE ENEMY. DO NOT TRUST A SOCIAL WORKER!
Comment by elemom — September 25, 2011 @ 10:59 am
I have come to fear cps taking my kids so badly that i am scared to interact with my children in public. My kids have been taken once(returned quickly with charges dropped). I have been investigated twice(both times allegations unfounded) Im writing this tonight because i cannot sleep. I had to take my daughter to urgent care after daycare at my providers demand. If i did not she would call cps. My daughter had been complaining to teachers that her peepee was owie. During diaper change she was “bright red”. I was told ” whenever a child says this we immediately have to think the worst”. The provider asked me if anyone in my household had opportunity to hurt her ( namely my ten year old behavioral spexial needs son and my 23 year old special needs brother, the daycare is aware of these ppl in my household) the answer was absolutely not. This line of questioning continued until i brought up the obvious question was it juat a diaperrash?! With that the provider told me to go to urgent care. I checked her diaper before leaving there was no sign of redness or rash. At dr.s office he raised his eyebrows n signed off that she was fine and that my daycare seemed “rather strict”. This daycare is always sitting me down for one offense or another(misquito bite questioned as a cigarette burn?!,heat rash in diaper area on a 102 degree day as “allowed to sit in wet diaper” telling my kids no too much.) My point is, im scared to touch, talk or discipline my children for fear of cps getting called! The stress and anxiety have lead me to take antianxiety meds from my dr. I feel a pattern is being set for the ultimately permanent removal of my children. Im so sorry for this long post im up late searching “daycare harassment” and stumbled on this site. Ty for hearing my rant/vent.
Comment by calimom — September 28, 2011 @ 2:42 am
I too was a battered wife who did not want to leave her husband. We seperated in 2007 & our child was taken from us due to the amount of abuse I reported to the courts & CPS. After we attended counseling & went above & beyond what was EVER requested from us by the courts or CPS our child was returned to us……after a year or so my husband again turned to his old ways slowly but surely. This time he was not nearly as physically abusive as before however; He used my daughter as a tool to get me to comply with his demands. If I did not comply he would take her to his parents in another state & keep her there until I submitted to him, then & only then would he bring her back to me…..after almost a year of this I seperated from him again in Dec 2009….requesting help from CPS…they told me if she was not abused by him they can not help me & that physical & emotional abuse is hard to prove so unless she has broken bones or bruises I was out of luck,,,they told me I was in the wrong for going back to him….it’s still ongoing. I have an appeal that was granted in June of 2011. We are still waiting on a new trial date they say probably not until 2012…..meanwhile my child is being mentally & emotionally tourmented….brainwashed against me….it’s had a significant impact on every part of my life….Makes it hard to function in any capacity…I am consumed with helping my daughter not live this life….trying to find a lawyer willing to sincerely help me….It feels endless & I can not with until the day I am able to look back on all of this as the past rather than something that has destroyed my life & put it completely on hold for the past 2 years…..
Thank You for sharing your story, helps to know that your not the only one experiencing this…
Comment by Angela — September 29, 2011 @ 1:54 pm
I have a question? If a parent is found to be unfit and her children were taken and adopted out. If that person gets pregnant again will that person get the keep the child or will that new child also be in the system?
Comment by Tawana — September 30, 2011 @ 5:05 pm
Calimom, I hope you can find a better daycare provider. This person sounds obsessive!
Comment by Linda Martin — September 30, 2011 @ 10:07 pm
Tawana, if parental rights were terminated they can use that to take the new baby. It would help to stay off welfare, conceal the information about a prior case history, move to another state, or best yet, leave the country entirely.
Comment by Linda Martin — September 30, 2011 @ 10:29 pm
today a long beach social worker ,mother was charged with the beating death of her 31 day old infant her license was revoked. how can we trust the people who are takeing care of our children if they are killing their own.
Comment by patsy — October 1, 2011 @ 12:23 am
hey cps worker your a DEMON and so are all other SOCIAL JERKERS!!
Comment by SCOTT A. — October 7, 2011 @ 9:21 am
My kids are all grown now, so I no longer have to fear those visits. What I recall is that they tell you that they are there to do what’s best for the family, particularly for your child. But the child that they took, that they were going to do what’s “best” for, is now 20 years old, in the streets with drugs, alcohol, and an ever growing rap sheet. My husband and I were “bad parents” who didn’t drink, smoke or do drugs, very law-abiding, and took care to instill moral values into our young. They took him, they said, because we yelled at him (occasionally). they did one of those Friday afternoon EMERGENCY REMOVALs because he was not safe in a house where parents sometimes yelled! They excused it saying that he had an extra sensitive nervous system, but I never saw him being any more sensitive than the rest of us. Now he lives in a motel room some social agency pays for, but mostly he is in the street getting into trouble and hearing the police siren when they are coming to arrest him. But he is not too sensitive for that!
Comment by Kammie — October 11, 2011 @ 11:36 am
My daughter was taken away by cps 2 yrs ago. I’ve since learned from the error of my ways. I almost got her back last christmas, but my job starting work overtime and I couldn’t make appointments for one month. They are still punishing me for that, a year later! She has some special needs, but they got worse since she left. All of this heartbreak because I wanted help and a person that I trusted, that I let into my house just one time, called cps because my house was a mess. I poured out my heart and soul to dhs and they used it all against me. I’ve been honest with them and very cooperative, but it hasn’t worked so far. This has been the worst experience of my enitre life.
Comment by Kathy — November 4, 2011 @ 7:00 pm
CPS is a harmful agency. They took my child away after I had a seizure on a river. They lied saying I was intoxicated even after I beat the public intoxication law, I went straight to the hospital after the seizure i had on the river. No BAC was taken, a breathlizor was not adminstered by the police..ect…This agency is out of control and total INJUSTICE but instead of leaving all these comments why isn’t something being done to regulate them. I now have my child back 2 and 1/2 year later but we need to get together an lobby against them. They have incredible too much control over people’s lives. To be able to keep a mother from a child should take a whole lot more than the word of someone with only a bachelor’s degree and a chip on the agencies shoulders.
Contact your congressman, you house leader, write letters, get a petition. MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Comment by Ashley — November 9, 2011 @ 7:02 am
CPS caseworkers do not have to have a social work background. A social work degree is not required to become employed by CPS. There are actually not enough caseworkers in my experience that have a a social work background. I am studying to become a social worker, and after reading many of these comments, wanted to make that clear. But, I also must say, that once a case is opened, warranted or not, on a child, you are under extreme scrutiny. Why would you continue an abusive relationship, knowing that CPS will only place a child back into a SAFE environment. That being said, I do think the system is broken, underfunded, and needs a lot of help. But some of you sound delusional with these stories!!
Comment by Kiki — November 14, 2011 @ 8:40 pm
CPS came to my home yesterday and said that they would take my daughter, if I let her step dad come back, because he tried to hurt himself. I have told him and told CPS that he was not coming back. But all CPS keep saying was they would take my daughter. When I asked for help when her father hurt her they did nothing. I don’t understand how the CPS system works.
Comment by Lisa — November 15, 2011 @ 9:35 am
Lisa – don’t let him come back. If you do, CPS will find out and you may never get your daughter back again. Have no contact with him whatsoever if you value your child! I know it is hard but this is what must be done. So sorry you’re going through that.
Comment by Linda Martin — November 17, 2011 @ 9:09 pm
My son and his wife were living in substandard housing (a fixer-upper my son bought shortly before his marriage, hoping to renovate and eventually re-sell). Unfortunately, my son lost his job shortly before the baby was born, so there was no money to continue the renovations. CPS said the home was not a safe environment for the baby. The casworkers promised to “help” my son and his wife. So how did they do that? Did they allocate funds for home renovation? Nope. DId they refer my son to any of the NGOs in our town that work with low-income homeowners? Not at all. Send in a visiting health nurse to help my DIL learn basic homemaking? Help them find emergency housing elsewhere? Recommend a good parenting class? Refer my son to a job program or help him put together a resume? Nope, nope, not at all, and no way. “Help” consisted of putting the newborn into foster care, humiliating my son and his wife in family team meetings, and referring them for psychiatric evaluations. Oh, and they reported my son’s income at his pre-job-loss level, which stuck him with huge child support payments for months (while he had no income, and was too busy complying with CPS demands even to look for a job) before he could finally file an appeal. Nice going, CPS people. You must feel such a warm glow of satisfaction at the end of the day, knowing how much good you’ve done for families like ours.
Comment by Stolen Grandchild — November 18, 2011 @ 12:21 pm
@Kiki: If I hadn’t witnessed CPS abusing my son (see my post, above), I might have thought these stories were delusional, too. I’m glad you recognize that the system is deeply flawed. However, once you join the system (if that’s your career goal) you may find that you gradually succumb to the status quo, because your job will be on the line if you try to buck the system. For what it’s worth, a degree in social work will not solve the problem. The caseworker who lied (yes, lied) about my son and daughter in law had her MSW. Education doesn’t replace honesty, compassion, or common sense. Sometimes, education just makes someone a more highly skilled abuser.
Comment by Stolen Grandchild — November 18, 2011 @ 12:30 pm
Would like to know how do you know your court appointed attorney is on you side and not on cps side? cps here in maine took my beautiful daughter under false pretenses They keep changing their story and they had a ten day order for a reunification that was started on the nov 28th was do on dec 9th and no plane in place my attorney said it does not mater if they take their time with it but the jugde said ten days for a reunfaction plan and they violated it please help
Comment by sandra — December 10, 2011 @ 7:17 pm
I am inspired by all the attention that the Occupy Wall Street movement is getting. Folks who want to dismantle CPS (it is way beyond reform) should touch base with the OWS protesters and warn them that the CPS-Human Dis-Services racket is just as insidious as the multitude of crooks in the banking and securities business. Wall Street steals our money and controls our economy. CPS-Human Services steals our children and instills a Big Brother Political Correctness to replace wholesome, natural, organic, loving biological families.
As for “reforming” laws against child abuse, simply make it a criminal offense to abuse-neglect children and make it mandatory to have jury trials at all levels of the initial trial and appeal process. This would guard against the collusion of judges, anti-social workers, county-shyster-attorneys, GALS, and other parasites involved in the racket. A jury of normal people, as opposed to the ab-normal Social Marxist control freaks who infest the “child protection” racket would help clean up the current mess.
Comment by Kit — December 17, 2011 @ 9:26 pm
CPS in texas has been doing this for decades – they make the women out ot be delusional when they are suffering from and abusive relationship and OMG if these women try to defend themselves in any form. Kit has it right and I suggest a step further that divorce and child custody needs to be federal law not state as the states screw over everyone to the point of no return. Also many hide out in another state and or pay multiple states support units for one child and this leaves no way to get corrections. If this were Federalized rather than state it would eliminate alow of the abuse and make it cut and dry so to speak. As for the abuse – the police in my hometown have been arrested over the past year for sitting in the cop care rolling joints of marijuana and gettng high while waiting for issue of tickets to citizens and eveedeitnly had bneen doing this for some time. Another cop was arrested after he drove into a family home about 730 in the morning from too much legal alcohol. Another cop was going to get investigated for having over 20 drinks at a bar onhis beat and did this daily while on his beat. Another cop the local Fort Worth Police Chief refused to investigate for wife abuse was later investigated after he clomber up his ex- balconey and shot her. When I have bothered to call my Family Law Attorney, Ted Mayo to report and seek legal advice for abuse ongoing after divorce such as my ex wiping out his dk in front of my daughter as my sons head was looking up the street but my daughter sttod beside her dad while my Mm and I watched out of the window at excange time while he pissed on my mail box. My Lawyer, Ted Mayo of Fort WOrth said he waas so glad I called to let him know and later told me that his solution was to spread rumors in the courthouse bout it and he failed to advise me to report this to the police and failed to give any sound advice as usual and sent me a hefty bill for this fuirther abuse set up by the current and ongoing system well establsihed for decades in Tarrant County Texas. And kiki you must6 be delusional to think you have any answer for any person on this site as you are teh one who seems to be in denial and not able to do other thatn denigrate women further with your undeserved comment. Gorw up and get informed or get out of here as people like you do not help – oh yes you just 4elevated yourself above all others – as we are all delusional – per you – GOD MADE KIKI GOD FOR THE DAY _ CAN WE PRAY TO YOU FOR YOUR HELP NOW!~
Comment by am — December 21, 2011 @ 12:23 pm
Oh and so calling the police in Fort worth has not been an option as they will tell y9ou that you can not prove harrassment or stalking that just beacuse your exs cell phone called your cell phone in the middle of the night that you can not even prove he made that call with ill intent – and of course I could not as his girlfrined and him (a Dr and Nurse – most likely high on hostyial drugs she steals for them and are testable by normal drug testing) were up abour or around 3 in the morn putting new numbers in his cell phone together as usual he still only wants to cut and sew and all other things must go to a woman so when things go worng of course it will be her fault not his thru his inactions. Pray to kiki as she may all the answers and be related to him as she sounds like she might be aws all women are delusional = sure sounds like kiki is delusional to me as well as clueless.
Comment by am — December 21, 2011 @ 12:36 pm
cps caseworker, do you have children? i have been dealing witgh cps since my children were born, thats 18 years. people call just to be mean and cruel. they make up things to tell them when they call, me and my children have suffered, asking for help from cps is pointless , every case worker i have had belives what they want, they dont have to investigate the truth, the truth does not matter. Cps has never taken my kids but they have put my familiy under sever stress everyday for years, raising kids is hard enough, expecially with drunk abusive husbands or anything else. i have had to choose to keep my kids safe and tell cps off, which made things worse. they are not here to help they are not suppose to judge, but they do, and most of the time your being judged by a younger person that has never had children . one of my daughter now lives with her abusive father, and because he agreed with cps they will not investgate him. he leaves her alone and lets her walk to the store at all hours of the night. she is 10. they are wrong! children have been murdered because they were to busy picking on someone else. waiting it out doesnt work, and bitching on the internet doesnt work, so fight the government yea right. so we take it?
Comment by glenda — December 23, 2011 @ 2:00 pm
I have been woking in CPS in large urban aea as well as small southern town for over 15 years. Should I have to beg and repeatedlt tell parents to take their children to a docotor o dentist, especially if they have free Medicaid w/ transportation for chronic conditions; Should we have to contiuously get parents to get their children to school; should we not advise parents not to leave their children home alone or in injurious environments; Resources are very limited; No we dont have apartments or jobs for famiiles. But when we do tell you of an opportunity; dont complain and think about it for a few weeks. It is that same initiative that has you in this current position. Make no mistake; I love working with children and their families; but not a magician nor mind reader. When children end up in fostercare, at least in NC; it is because there is absolutlely NO one to care for the child. That means the parent provided no viable resource, often as being spiteful to CPS but actually hurting their child. At other times the resources named have criminal backgrounds that prevent this. And this is not even mentioning many relatives who decline to assist for not wanting to deal with the so-called parent and their trifling self. So be truthful and honest about what you are reporting.Anyone can make a eport on anyone but it is you job as parent or caretake to coply and sho how you make the children a priority and can safeguard their well being.
Comment by Ronnie — December 29, 2011 @ 7:24 pm
i agree with all of the people that are against even though im 15 they want to send me to my fathers house that is ten times worse than my house. hes a drunk 24/7 ,abusive and is never around when i need him. i have not seen my father since i was about seven and he threw a lighter at my head and cracked it open. the reason i am in this predicament is because my moms sister in law ( aunt ) threw her coffee mug at me and cracked my head open too. and when cps got called she got pissed because she said she didn’t hurt me. I am sorry but she cracked my head open and didn’t even take me to get stitches in it. my mother was in the hospital getting surgery done and didn’t even know what happened. so to all the cps workers ” go f-u-c-k yourselves!!!!”
Comment by s — January 20, 2012 @ 7:26 am
S… sorry I had to delete your name because of your age… and need for privacy. I hope that if you end up having to live with your father again, that he’s changed. Of course it makes no sense for you to have to leave your mother, especially if she’s the only non-violent one!!
Comment by Linda Martin — January 21, 2012 @ 9:45 am
Linda,
Thank you so much for your site it truly is a help and blessing. My precious angels 2 and 5 Lily and aiden were ripped from their snuggly loving home oftheir mother on december 30, 2011. Eachday of agony that goes by without my gifts from the lord is unbearable. I objected to jurisdiction and have juris court in 4 days. Would a letter to the judge telling her how much i am suffering and how much i love them help at all?
Comment by ms. byrd from ca — January 22, 2012 @ 7:38 pm
Ms. Byrd… a letter to the judge is considered ex-parte communication and generally not allowed. Consult your attorney on this. The best way to tell the judge your side of the story is to submit a legal document called a declaration to the court through your lawyer. You can find a sample declaration in our legal document library.
Comment by Linda Martin — January 22, 2012 @ 11:49 pm
what r the steps to overturn a decision of a “founded”incident????Is there even any point???Sounds like cps has all the power and parents have none..I cannot afford a lawyer,and believe my rights have been violated during a cps investigation…can anyone help???
Comment by dambjm — January 28, 2012 @ 12:00 pm
my question i would love to know is, How CPS placed kids in foster care with a two time child molester and same family trhat had heroin charges and get away with it?i would love to know thne answer to this because n ot mentioning any names this has happened to someone that is very cvlose to me and therer kids
Comment by Missy — January 29, 2012 @ 5:59 pm
when their kids were taking from, them and pointed fingers at them took there kids and put them in a place that they should have never went to begin
Comment by Missy — January 29, 2012 @ 6:01 pm
Dambjm – check your state’s central index law here:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/registry.cfm
Also, register at our message board and ask the advocates there for ideas on fighting the “founded” determination.
Comment by Linda Martin — January 30, 2012 @ 12:11 pm
I was reported to cps by school for not having my son see eye doctor, and he got bit by neighbors dog and we treated it at home.It the bite is almost healed and now cps wants me to take my son to doctor and have nurse come to house to check everybody . what should i do?
Comment by Joe — February 1, 2012 @ 12:27 pm
Joe, I suggest that you get an attorney as soon as possible. When CPS is involved it is a legal matter. Taking your child to a doctor is a good idea. The CPS worker could charge you with medical neglect otherwise. I don’t understand why a nurse needs to come to your house… but discuss that with your lawyer if you’re hesitant about it.
Comment by Linda Martin — February 2, 2012 @ 1:14 pm
My story is similar to the stories on here, the only difference is I’m the grandmother.
Comment by lety — February 7, 2012 @ 7:40 pm
Does anyone know what it means to CPS if the judge grants you rights to be party to the case?
Comment by lety — February 7, 2012 @ 7:44 pm
I have read some of these comments and honey let me tell you…You do not have to lie about how these people are…the ones on here with their smart ass comments are probably social worker themselves…It is in unreal what goes on…and how they get by with it their is NO Justice for the children at all.. May God have mercy on them all for if not then I feel sorry for them…Jesus loves all the children…But ya’ll go ahead with your bad self…you will have to explain yourself one day before the Lord God.. Judgement Day!!!
Comment by Tina — February 9, 2012 @ 10:46 pm
to the “cpsworker” : thank you for taking time to post on this Dantes Inferno site. It takes some level of interest to do what you have done and it needs to be noted. This is the problem we are sharing : no diploma,no “experience” in field , no chunks of power over other beings,no selfimage as qualified team member will in any way guarantee that anybody with all these notches on their belt will be able to cross dimensional river between knowing and understanding which would be the number one requirement to possibly understand the real and deep mysteries of human hearts and relationships with others. The CPS workers, majority of them ,as I have seen in my own experience, are like the rest of us – confused ,lacking stability,often interest,time due to their work loads , they are willing to apply their own unrelated standards to their case work .However some of them exhibit unmistakable tendencies toward attainning attitude of superiority towards their “case load” which of course is us, their captives. In some rare cases the smell of sadism ,torture upon their victims definately comes trough if ones nose can smell more then other noses – so to speak. And then ,when caught in act of a silent exchange,when they realize that I know what they are all about ,they change their outward acting – it is a strictly what we call a spiritual matter. In such situations,to certain extent ,they ceased to be themselves and are drunk on their external power.The external power which comes now days with the official position of a CPS social worker is useless and very damaging to the society at large if the individual so efflicted has insufficient understanding ,interest, level of being to understand deeply any aspect of the case in front of them – and typically that is the case. In another words family and human,God given relationship between child and the parents in particular is the round hole in the body of the society while the maximum CPS potentional would be the proverbial square plug – and it can’t be otherwise. We are born individually to solve certain mysteries contained in our souls and their interconnectivness and nobody but ourselves has the capacity and responsibility to address these opportunities. If it was otherwise then the God may as well be working for CPS and not the other way around. No ,I am not religious but I do see the beauty of and joyfully am part of the somewhat invisible flow of Creation. I do believe that after some basic structural changes ,such as including in its ranks ordinary positive-positive males instead of negative-positive ones,the CPS can now so heavily weighted down with uncontrolable technologies ,current luck of individualism ,emotional stability which made it highly open to very negative influences from outside of human realm ,which can be reversed by change in priorities of daily life and balance between soul being and interfering ,reflective thought patterns which we mistake for reality. the Natures playgrounds are still outhere,awaiting our hungry souls. The leading criteria for any CPS active intrusion in peoples lives must be always judged against the backround of the medical professions well known maxim : DO NO HARM !!! Anyone interested in contacting me for any reason can call me at 707 2794843 God helps those who help themselves!! Milos Leubner
Comment by Milos Leubner — February 12, 2012 @ 8:12 pm
Ronnie – i can’t resist – you don’t see it obviously ,but you are thinking and therefore acting from a position of superior knowledge of what is best for the children and our society as whole. What made you to subconciously act upon this false premise? It is nothing else but unlawfull,extraordinary powers you were trusted with by the imperfect political machine .The Government is ,by its nature the servant of the people, as our Bill of Rights quarantees – ever read IX. th and X. Amedment ,not to mention all the other ones? you are acting strictly on the latest fad hitting our society and the latest opinion of your office supervisers and coworkers. You should realize as an individual what the law of Mandated Reporters is doing to us all , the ridiculesness of it , the false effects upon people at large. The power you were given did not make you any more able to see inside of real life situation,you just go with the black and white ,you insist on going to the doctor ignoring the statistics stating that 12 % of all disaeses are aquired by simply stay in the hospital, the schools operate often strictly for the purpose of having children to attend daily so the sum of $56 per child ,per day will be collected by administration .You call for people to be truthfull in their reportings ,if they have a criminal charge hanging over their heads ,are they going to be just right truthfull or little more truthfull,just to make sure? Also you exhibit a typical SW attitude that somehow,somewhere you have an automatic right to request from ANYONE to comply with YOUR requirements – no where you mention complience with a requirements of the law ,likely you don’t even know what they are in fact. Once the scales of power fall of your eyes you will be blinded by day light, if you ever can make it happen. It is not our job to comply with your wishes, baseless requests at all,it is possibly our job to comply with a existing laws until we can change them . You are accusing parents of being spitefull to the CPS ?- you have long ago forgat who you really are , CPS is the second edition of the Spanish Inquisition operated by the same forces , little wheels packed together adopting Borg mentality of a bee hive. Believe me I wish I could help you to step out of your cage but I don’t know if I can do it. The best of luck Ronnie , the life is out there if we can allow it to come to us in any form and witness it beyond the thought and habit.
Comment by Milos Leubner — February 12, 2012 @ 9:28 pm
I work in medicine. One of the busiest hospitals in the state. I call CPS alot. To report abuse. Children with burns, bruises, broken limbs. Today it was a 2yo girl with 2 degree burns on her body from a mother that has known her for only 3 months of her life. A scalding injury for her wanting to eat a cookie. If you have been done wrong by CPS than I can see your greivance. But, if you abuse a child I hope someone shoots you in the head, pisses on your corpse, and sets you on fire. So while CPS may not be efficient for you they did keep that girl away from her abusive mother.
Comment by disgusted — February 15, 2012 @ 10:21 pm
Disgusted, you’re so sure it was her mother that injured her. Sounds like you’re the judge, jury and executioner. Are you God, by any chance?
Thankfully you’re here with us so we can simply dispense with the justice system now.
Comment by Linda Martin — February 17, 2012 @ 9:02 pm
CPS came to my door today and said that someone accused me and my wife of touching our oldest daughter and that we had her touch us…first of that is just plane sick..second how can someone even say thats going on in our home? But cps dont question that…instead they come to my house with a police officer ask us to step outside and shut the door on our 3 kids ages 7, 5, and 2…how can they tell us to do that? leave them inside all alone with no adult in the house? Then they tell us what is going on and ask if they can speak to the oldest Daughter and then my youngest daughter which is 5, then she takes them to the police car has them sit in there with them and ask them all kinds of questions, and shows the a picture of body parts and says to them has anyone touched you here? I mean what is going on here…then their like have you seen mommy or daddy naked or slept in their bed….stupid system putting things out there like that to children…of course its going to be ok cause nothing is going on…but I bet while there taking someones word for it and waisting Government money and abusing my kids mentally…down the road somewhere this is really going on but theres no one there to save that child cause their waisting there time on innocent people…before she left she said going by what the kids said and what we said theres nothing but she is calling us tomorrow and might have the kids come back in later on…I swear I lose my kids over something we didnt do…
Comment by Richard — February 24, 2012 @ 12:47 am
The caseworker told me that my children needed therapy. I told her that I cannot afford it. I asked her if there were some free services available. She said no. At this time we were “just talking.”
Next thing I know, she tells me that therapy is mandated and will include me, the kids, and my violent and abuse ex-husband (their father) and his new wife!
At my/our expense. And at my needing to take off work once per week.
We did this for six months because she said she would take the children if we did not. Finally, the therapist took pity on me and the kids and called the caseworker and said that the goals of therapy had been accomplished.
Trust me, nothing GOOD came of this therapy, except that the kids all got to see their dad for exactly who and what he is. I just think the caseworker knew that I was not neglectful but she was angry and wanted to make us jump through some hoops.
And yes I am very grateful that the kids were not taken from me. I am not, however, grateful for the experience of being terrorized and traumatized.
Comment by Elise — March 2, 2012 @ 12:04 pm
Therapy is almost always ordered as a means to promote business for the counselors who are almost always beholden to CPS. Almost could say they are part of a vast network to promote funds and keep everyone employed. In turn the counselors testify on behalf of CPS against you. The system is so corrupt and out of control. We must keep fighting for our children and as Linda says” Document, Document, Document!! Everything in writing or recorded. God Bless.
Comment by sheran — March 13, 2012 @ 5:18 pm
I adopted a boy that was taken, rightfully, out of his biological family’s homes. CPS sometimes does a good job, sometimes bad, but never spends enough time or money on any case to handle it correctly.
Comment by H.S. — March 15, 2012 @ 12:10 am
In January my 15 year old son had a nervous breakdown of some sort he began to rant about how he hated me wanted to kill me, his sisters etc. It was completely out of character for him. I became afraid and cold the police, he was then 51/51 and drug tested. It turned out he had not been sleeping for a few days, doing school work and gaming. He does not do drugs not drugs in system. He was realeased and came home. 2 weeks ago CPS went to all my kids school to questioned them. Now they are coming to talk to me. I have no clue why or why they are investigating me or our family. I have no husband or partner. Been separated for 12 years. Kids have been priority #1. None of my kids have any problems or discipline records. I have never had any legal problems either. Please advise why are these people bothering us?
Comment by Dona — March 17, 2012 @ 2:57 pm
Dona, they are fishing for information, looking for something to hold against you. I hope the case blows over quickly and that you’re not roped into signing a service plan.
Comment by Linda Martin — March 22, 2012 @ 12:31 am
my 3 kids wher taken from me like 4 years ago when cps came to my house an they said my kids where livin in a dirty house but the big kicker is they didnt take no pics of the house an now im im fight my butt off to get them back but how can i stop the cps worker from liein about the house
Comment by bridgette — April 30, 2012 @ 8:31 am
Reading all these accounts is very troubling and deeply disheartening to me. I recall an assignment in my second year of college where we were asked to read a case scenario and argue against the social worker’s point of view; effectively forcing us into the place of the parent. I recall feeling helpless and overwhelmed, a feeling I am again reminded of after reading these accounts. Fact is, many graduates of social work colleges do not choose to enter into child protection work. In fact, in my undergraduate class less than one-third of the students entered into that specialty and of those who chose child welfare work, many did not fulfill the appropriate coursework. The truth is, child protection social workers are not heartless individuals who want parents to fail. Also, it is worth noting that all schools of social work teach roughly the same approach to child welfare and within that curriculum are both ‘fair assessments’ and ‘least intrusive measures.’ That means there is not a one size fits all approach to working with children, youth, and families-though this might not seem to be the case. What sites like this miss is that all CPS decisions are legal in nature. Although social workers play a great role in legal hearings, social workers do not make the decision whether or not children are placed into care as that is a decision made by a judge. Therefore, rather than directing anger toward the profession of social work, would that time and energy not be better spent advocating for legal reform? Moreover, being that social causes are terribly underfunded when compared to others such as health, business, and policing, would it not be more logical to advocate spending more tax money on social causes i.e. CPS? Conversely, reforming existing CP laws. It just seems like this frustration is not being properly directed.
Comment by Swrkr1 — May 5, 2012 @ 9:13 pm
Swrkr1, I recently wrote about the idea that CPS is social work with a judicial overlay. One of the problems we’ve seen is that the people working for CPS are NOT actual social workers who have graduated from a program such as you were in. They tend to hire people without the appropriate education… perhaps because real social workers often avoid working in the child protection industry.
I am against giving more funding to the child protection industry because they’ve already got massive federal funding available which is their incentive for breaking up families and forcing parents through “services” . . . all funded by the federal government and the Social Security fund. Big corruption opportunity. We consider it racketeering at the expense of helpless families and little children who have no understanding of the legal system that oppresses them.
Comment by Linda Martin — May 7, 2012 @ 1:16 pm
I couldn’t agree with you more on that Linda. I think it is interesting that you used the word ‘oppress’ as it is the goal of social work as a profession to be anti-oppressive. However, it has been my experience that when social workers seek to employ the tenet of unconditional positive regard it is met with friction within organizations. Thus, many CPS agencies have effectively outsourced the work traditionally done by social workers to individuals with other qualifications, in the process changing the job title to something like Children’s Service Specialist; this might seem like semantics, but imagine if this happened in any other agency. It would be chaotic if your accountant or nurse was replaced by someone who could not do the work! Indeed, it can be done in CPS because our clients are largely poor, young, undereducated, female, minorities. The cycle of abuse is often cyclical and those groups I mentioned are less able to ‘insulate’ themselves from the scrutiny of society. For example, the young single-mother who is forced to work two jobs has to live in a bad apartment where people are crammed together is far more likely to have a report made against her. However, it is not her fault she was not able to get an education or does not have positive supports! That in-and-of itself is a travesty of justice and a failing of the ‘system’ to protect those most vulnerable. My point is that traditional schools of social work teach individuals to view situations like that holistically, take all those aspects into account, and not create hurdles (unattainable goals) but offer supports.
In short, I could not agree with you more. I believe we can not overhaul the CP system as it exists today in any jurisdiction. Clients are frustrated, workers are burning out, and the whole system is overwhelmingly trenched in both legal and moral constructs; indeed, the history of CPS comes out of religious ‘child-saving’ ideals that have at least harmed as much as they have helped.
Keep up the good fight! I think all transformative change starts from the ground up and in the mobilization of the oppressed. Gandhi said “be the change you want to see in the world.” In that, I think your site is doing a great service.
Comment by Swrkr1 — May 7, 2012 @ 9:17 pm
Thanks, Swrkr1… I may not get everything I want but if not I’ll probably die trying. Ideally I’d like for this site to be put out of business because the need for it would end. I’d like for all the children to be returned to loving parents. I’d like for child protection and foster care to be handled by two different branches of the government, ideally law enforcement for child protection, and social services for foster care. I’d also like for constitutional rights to apply in juvenile court.
Comment by Linda Martin — May 8, 2012 @ 4:05 pm
Iam a mom to 3 kids I adore. My youngest, is my daughter, who is 9. I’ve had issues with abuse from her father since the time I found out I was pregnant with her. He was very controlling & jealous of every one in my life. I also had issues with his mother who always wanted a daughter but never had one. It was her mission,& still is, to take mine. I left my lil girls dad after his abuse went from me, and turned to my oldest son, now 13, but at the time was in kindergarten. The ex, & his mother made false cps reports against me regularly for many years. Each time I wasi investigated each time, with no finds of incident (because the allegations were lies.) Last year, I was I investigated again & my children were taken without warning. I was given several reasons why by my caseworker, but it didn’t make sense. First I was told that it was because I had so many reports made against me. I was then told, after that caseworker quit her job, by another cw, that they were removed because I had a history of drug use, although, I never have. A 3rd cw told me it was because I was homeless, but I wasn’t.i had lived at the same address I’ve a year. Yet another caseworker said she would have to ask her supervisor why my children were removed because my case was blank. I never got a family plan, a cort date, or anything. Now they just ignore me.
Comment by Confused and desperate for help — May 18, 2012 @ 1:28 am
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Comment by Linda Martin — May 18, 2012 @ 4:28 pm
grandson is being mentally and verbally abused by father
Comment by Gail — May 20, 2012 @ 6:26 am