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.
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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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.
I like to think positive, so sometimes I regret choosing the name, FightCPS for this site. I chose it over ten years ago, in October 2000. FightCPS sounds a bit negative but… if you are in the middle of a CPS case you KNOW that what you need to do is FIGHT in court to get your rights honored and your children back.
Recently I decided to start a Facebook group for this site - but I wanted a positive sounding name, so I chose Strengthening Families Throughout the World. So far I don’t have any group members, so I’m hoping that by announcing it here some of you who use Facebook will come by and join, and tell your other Facebook friends about it.
I’d like to let people know that we need our families built up and strengthened, not torn down and destroyed, which is what CPS does.
This is just a note to let you know that because there was too much server use I’ve had to make changes on this site. At the request of the server host I deleted the chat room… and I’ve also had to remove the older guestbooks. I usually have a new guestbook for each month because of the number of postings they get. From this point onward, all guestbooks over six months old will be taken offline.
In Midland, Michigan an adopted child attacked and killed Faith Baden’s son, Justin Baden, age 17, early in August, 2009. Justin and his younger siblings were removed from Faith Baden’s home by CPS and eventually adopted out to Jessica Pribbernow, a Michigan child-collector.
The newspaper reported that Pribbernow had custody of five boys adopted from foster care. The accused, known as Steven Jeffrey Pribbernow Jr., 15, is not the biological brother of the boys he is said to have attacked.
Two others boys, both sons of Faith Baden, were injured severely in the knife attack.
Faith left a number of news articles, emails, and comments on FightCPS yesterday. You can read them here and here.
Faith, my heartfelt sympathy to you on the loss of your son, and prayers for the healing of his younger brothers. We here at FightCPS do understand that your children should not have been separated from their loving parents.
Obviously the child collecting adopters were not capable of keeping the children safe. This is one more sign that the foster-adoption system in this country doesn’t work. I wonder if these children, in particular the one said to be the attacker, were on medications as “special needs” children. Many pharmaceutical medications given to foster and adoptive children are believed to have produced suicidal or homicidal tendencies. One of the emails posted stated that Jessica and her husband were unemployed and living off the adoption subsidy payments received for adopting the boys - a clear indicator that these were probably medicated children.
A fine way our country pretends to keep children safe.
We’ve known for a long time that children are being overly medicated in foster care. State lawmakers seem very resistant to making laws to prevent this, probably because of pressure from the pharmaceutical industry.
Meanwhile thousands of children are mentally injured by psychotropic drugs after being placed in “chemical restraints” to control and subdue them.
Recently - just last April - a drugged seven-year-old foster child in Florida took his own life, and once again the spotlight is on this issue. Florida legislators, feeling the heat, are making the motions to do something about this. I looked through the FightCPS archives and found the same issue discussed in the news in 2001 and 2004, in Florida. They didn’t do anything about it then. What makes anyone think they’ll do it now?
I’ve had this issue bubbling under the surface of my usually calm demeanor for many months. Make that years. Well.. today I let it out. I compiled my research, found numerous YouTube videos exposing the matter, and put it all on one page, which you’re now welcome to visit: Drugging Foster Children. I look forward to getting some feedback on that page!
The New Jersey Office of the Child Advocate wants to stop issuing information on individual cases of children killed in foster homes, preferring to focus on “annual reports on trends” instead, through their Child Fatality and Near-Fatality Review Board.
New Jersey’s State Department of Children and Families apparently intends to continue to release details about cases in which children are killed when under supervision of the state child welfare system.
Back when I started investigating child protective services, it was rare to hear about children killed while in foster homes. It seemed foster child deaths were covered up, white washed, and forgotten. In one California county a series of file cabinets full of reports of children abused in foster homes were found in a back room, the reports uninvestigated.
Child abuse in foster homes didn’t warrant investigations because there was no federal money to be made by taking children from bad foster homes. It still seems to be low-priority to many CPS social workers.
Federal funding is only given for taking children from their natural family homes, not from foster homes.
Things have changed in the last twenty years. Now foster child deaths are being reported on in newspapers more often, and those media businesses are demanding access to child welfare records about foster children killed while in state custody.
In Los Angeles County, California, child welfare workers were probably too busy tending to non-abused children by ripping their families to shreds, so they overlooked the 12 or so calls about the abuse of six-year-old Dae’von Bailey, now deceased.
But he wasn’t the only one. Apparently they have about a dozen similar cases of children killed because the social workers didn’t have time or motivation to save them.
If they would leave non-abused children with their loving families, they’d have more time for the ones that are in real peril.
Simple solution: Detain children who are being severely physically abused and leave children of marginal cases, cases without real proof, and neglect cases at home with loving parents. What a concept! Isn’t that what we were told CPS was going to do way back in 1974 when this all started? Who ever knew the definition of “severe child abuse” would become so broad in the imaginations of so many systemites?
If only truly abused children were placed in foster homes, we could probably cut the staff requirements for CPS in half within a few months. Please think about that, state lawmakers!
Tonight while I was surfing the web I saw a name that reminded me of the psychologist who evaluated me twenty years ago for the child welfare system.
I plugged her name into Google and found out about this site that lists doctors and psychologists: Revolution Health - Your Home for Health and Balance. I left a review on her profile page and am inviting you to go there to leave feedback about the county-paid psychologists and doctors that may have misdiagnosed your children and referred you to CPS.
You can look for this at The Library of Congress Website for more information. It was passed by the House on March 30 and now is being considered by the Senate.
Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)
HR 20 EH
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
AN ACT
To provide for research on, and services for individuals with, postpartum depression and psychosis.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom’s Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act’ or the `Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act’.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act–
(1) the term `postpartum condition’ means postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis; and
(2) the term `Secretary’ means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
TITLE I–RESEARCH ON POSTPARTUM CONDITIONS
SEC. 101. EXPANSION AND INTENSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES.
(a) Continuation of Activities- The Secretary is encouraged to continue activities on postpartum conditions.
(b) Programs for Postpartum Conditions- In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary is encouraged to continue research to expand the understanding of the causes of, and treatments for, postpartum conditions. Activities under such subsection shall include conducting and supporting the following:
(1) Basic research concerning the etiology and causes of the conditions.
(2) Epidemiological studies to address the frequency and natural history of the conditions and the differences among racial and ethnic groups with respect to the conditions.
(3) The development of improved screening and diagnostic techniques.
(4) Clinical research for the development and evaluation of new treatments.
(5) Information and education programs for health care professionals and the public, which may include a coordinated national campaign to increase the awareness and knowledge of postpartum conditions. Activities under such a national campaign may–
(A) include public service announcements through television, radio, and other means; and
(B) focus on–
(i) raising awareness about screening;
(ii) educating new mothers and their families about postpartum conditions to promote earlier diagnosis and treatment; and
(iii) ensuring that such education includes complete information concerning postpartum conditions, including its symptoms, methods of coping with the illness, and treatment resources.
SEC. 102. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF RELATIVE MENTAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES FOR WOMEN OF RESOLVING A PREGNANCY.
(a) Sense of Congress- It is the sense of Congress that the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health may conduct a nationally representative longitudinal study (during the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2018) of the relative mental health consequences for women of resolving a pregnancy (intended and unintended) in various ways, including carrying the pregnancy to term and parenting the child, carrying the pregnancy to term and placing the child for adoption, miscarriage, and having an abortion. This study may assess the incidence, timing, magnitude, and duration of the immediate and long-term mental health consequences (positive or negative) of these pregnancy outcomes.
(b) Report- Beginning not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, and periodically thereafter for the duration of the study, such Director may prepare and submit to the Congress reports on the findings of the study.
TITLE II–DELIVERY OF SERVICES REGARDING POSTPARTUM CONDITIONS
SEC. 201. ESTABLISHMENT OF GRANT PROGRAM.
Subpart I of part D of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 330G the following:
`SEC. 330G-1. SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WITH A POSTPARTUM CONDITION AND THEIR FAMILIES.
`(a) In General- The Secretary may make grants to eligible entities for projects for the establishment, operation, and coordination of effective and cost-efficient systems for the delivery of essential services to individuals with a postpartum condition and their families.
`(b) Certain Activities- To the extent practicable and appropriate, the Secretary shall ensure that projects funded under subsection (a) provide education and services with respect to the diagnosis and management of postpartum conditions. The Secretary may allow such projects to include the following:
`(1) Delivering or enhancing outpatient and home-based health and support services, including case management and comprehensive treatment services for individuals with or at risk for postpartum conditions, and delivering or enhancing support services for their families.
`(2) Delivering or enhancing inpatient care management services that ensure the well-being of the mother and family and the future development of the infant.
`(3) Improving the quality, availability, and organization of health care and support services (including transportation services, attendant care, homemaker services, day or respite care, and providing counseling on financial assistance and insurance) for individuals with a postpartum condition and support services for their families.
`(4) Providing education to new mothers and, as appropriate, their families about postpartum conditions to promote earlier diagnosis and treatment. Such education may include–
`(A) providing complete information on postpartum conditions, symptoms, methods of coping with the illness, and treatment resources; and
`(B) in the case of a grantee that is a State, hospital, or birthing facility–
`(i) providing education to new mothers and fathers, and other family members as appropriate, concerning postpartum conditions before new mothers leave the health facility; and
`(ii) ensuring that training programs regarding such education are carried out at the health facility.
`(c) Integration With Other Programs- To the extent practicable and appropriate, the Secretary may integrate the grant program under this section with other grant programs carried out by the Secretary, including the program under section 330.
`(d) Certain Requirements- A grant may be made under this section only if the applicant involved makes the following agreements:
`(1) Not more than 5 percent of the grant will be used for administration, accounting, reporting, and program oversight functions.
`(2) The grant will be used to supplement and not supplant funds from other sources related to the treatment of postpartum conditions.
`(3) The applicant will abide by any limitations deemed appropriate by the Secretary on any charges to individuals receiving services pursuant to the grant. As deemed appropriate by the Secretary, such limitations on charges may vary based on the financial circumstances of the individual receiving services.
`(4) The grant will not be expended to make payment for services authorized under subsection (a) to the extent that payment has been made, or can reasonably be expected to be made, with respect to such services–
`(A) under any State compensation program, under an insurance policy, or under any Federal or State health benefits program; or
`(B) by an entity that provides health services on a prepaid basis.
`(5) The applicant will, at each site at which the applicant provides services funded under subsection (a), post a conspicuous notice informing individuals who receive the services of any Federal policies that apply to the applicant with respect to the imposition of charges on such individuals.
`(6) For each grant period, the applicant will submit to the Secretary a report that describes how grant funds were used during such period.
`(e) Technical Assistance- The Secretary may provide technical assistance to entities seeking a grant under this section in order to assist such entities in complying with the requirements of this section.
`(f) Definitions- In this section:
`(1) The term `eligible entity’ means a public or nonprofit private entity, which may include a State or local government; a public or nonprofit private recipient of a grant under section 330H (relating to the Healthy Start Initiative), public-private partnership, hospital, community-based organization, hospice, ambulatory care facility, community health center, migrant health center, public housing primary care center, or homeless health center; or any other appropriate public or nonprofit private entity.
`(2) The term `postpartum condition’ means postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis.’.
TITLE III–GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
To carry out this Act and the amendment made by section 201, there are authorized to be appropriated, in addition to such other sums as may be available for such purpose–
(1) $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and
(2) such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2011 and 2012.
SEC. 302. REPORT BY THE SECRETARY.
(a) Study- The Secretary shall conduct a study on the benefits of screening for postpartum conditions.
(b) Report- Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall complete the study required by subsection (a) and submit a report to the Congress on the results of such study.
SEC. 303. LIMITATION.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or the amendment made by section 201, the Secretary may not utilize amounts made available under this Act or such amendment to carry out activities or programs that are duplicative of activities or programs that are already being carried out through the Department of Health and Human Services.
Passed the House of Representatives March 30, 2009.
Nadya Suleman must have a lot going for herself, and her many children. She’s managed to buy a home and hire an attorney, and appear on the Dr. Phil Show where she was offered free nursing care by an organization that calls themselves “Angels in Waiting”.
Unfortunately these “Angels” appear to have a problem - with calling CPS. So far there have been two calls. First their attorney, Gloria Allred, called CPS because Suleman didn’t immediately respond to the “Angels in Waiting” offer of free nursing service. According to the article, Octuplets mom fires four nurses helping for free, Allred threatened “that Suleman’s children could end up in foster care if she didn’t have proper help.”
You KNOW what I think of this lawyer!
But then after the nursing service began, one of the nurses apparently called CPS because in her opinion, there were too many people at the Suleman house. I doubt there’s any laws about how many people are allowed in a house with babies, but this nurse must think her subjective opinion is gold and that Nadya should not have company. How unreasonable can you get?
Congratulations to Nadya Suleman, who took decisive action to get rid of the rat and her fellow “Angels in Waiting”. Nadya looks like a lovely person and her babies are precious — you can see them on the Nadya Suleman Family Website. You can learn more about her on Wikipedia: Nadya Suleman. I admire and respect what this young woman has done in deciding to have children on her own, and in finding ways to make this financially possible. I especially admire that, rather than cowering in fear, she tossed out the bad apples who thought calling CPS was an option.
Just as any American, Nadya has the right to raise her children as she sees fit.
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