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Mother’s Day has been sad for me for years now. Without fail I always think of caring parents who are suffering because their children are being kept from them. Then I remember the years when my two oldest daughters lived with their father and I never, ever heard anything from them on Mother’s Day… nor did they want to talk to me at any other time. The youngest still has Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) though now she’s 28 years old. She refuses to communicate with me and thinks I’m a really, really, really bad person. (My oldest daughter recovered and realized she’d been brainwashed.)

I know a lot of you are thinking, “When my child is eighteen he/she will come see me again.” But for many of the sad, suffering parents, that never happens because of PAS.

(More about PAS/Read: What is the child’s part in PAS?)

So… for those of us with children in foster care or adoptive homes, or living with another family member or an ex-spouse… for those of us who never get to hear “Happy Mother’s Day” from their much loved children… I have a few suggestions.

1. Love yourself. Seriously, if your child won’t express love to you, find reasons to love yourself anyway. All human beings are born to be inherently lovable, and you’re one of them. Take time today to list your good qualities and praise yourself for them.

2. Here’s something that cheered me up back then when my daughters weren’t calling me. I found a big Mother’s Day ad/announcement/appreciation printed in the Oakland Tribune, and cut it out and put it on the refrigerator. It was cheerful and it really made me feel better even though it didn’t come from the two children I wanted to hear from. Those of you blessed with artistic creativity can probably get the same effect by making a card for yourself.

3. Pray for the children. They are victims just as we are. While it is true they probably aren’t calling because they don’t remember or realize it is a special day, it is also true that their handlers (whoever controls them) aren’t going to remind them to call as any truly decent person would. This isn’t your child’s fault. They are being trained to be disrespectful to their mother and to treat her like dirt. They get good reactions from the people they live with whenever they are cruel towards us.

4. Take a walk today and look at all the flowers blooming. Clear your mind from the sad thoughts and remember that life renews itself and there’s plenty to love about being alive in this world.

5. Don’t quit living, learning, and growing. You’ve had a terrible shock, and are living with trauma. But don’t let that destroy your life. Look toward your own interests and hobbies. Do things that make you happy. It is all about self-care. Yes, the thing you wanted to do (mothering) was cruelly ripped from your arms and your heart will hurt over this for many years to come… but we must learn to live with the trauma and recover from it. And we must use the time away from our children to do good things for ourselves.

A big hug from me to all suffering, lonely, traumatized mothers on this Mother’s Day 2009.

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.

Yes, I moved things around a bit…

The recent comments are now in the right-side column under the navigation links.

Yesterday I received an email from someone who had been accused of child abuse in Oregon. It was a former foster parent. I have always placed information from news articles onto this site when it involves abuse of foster children because I want to show that children placed in CPS custody are not necessarily safer than children in their natural homes. In fact I believe it is established that children are worse off in foster homes even when there are serious problems in their natural family homes. (This of course has nothing to do with the rare actual severe physical abuse cases that do require intervention by law enforcement officers.)

The man who wrote to me yesterday was accused of abuse against a foster child four or five years ago. Since then he’s made major changes in his life and now has custody of his children. He objected to having his name on my site and said it was harmful to his children. I am aware that foster parents are as likely to be falsely accused of abuse as are natural parents–perhaps even moreso because they intentionally (stupidly, in my opinion, in their desire to ‘do something nice for children‘) place themselves within the scope of child protection authorities and subject themselves to children who have been harmed and corrupted by the system. Sorry to say some of these children do make false accusations because that’s what they’ve been trained to do by evil systemites.

When I received this man’s email I immediately removed his name from this site. I left the article with the child’s information, but I have no reason to leave criminal accusations against innocent people, and he should not have his name on the internet in this context if he is innocent…. just like 90% of the people on CPS’s evil Central Index lists should not be maligned by being named there, myself included.

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If YOU have found your name on this site, and you are innocent of charges that were brought against you, please email me at the email address found at the bottom of every page. The email link is also at the top of the forum pages. I respond to my emails asking for removal of information. This site is now eight years old and I’ve got a ton of information here - most of which I don’t even remember at this point. If you want your information removed, do what this wise man did - SEND ME THE LINK to the information you want removed. That makes it 100 times easier for me to do a rapid information removal.

I also remove comments people made here that they no longer want on the site - but again, I need the links!!! If you find anything on this site that shouldn’t be posted, you are welcome to contact me about it. Your privacy and well being are important to me.

I strongly encourage parents having CPS troubles to use a fake name or handle when posting here. Also disguise your exact details. This is a public forum.

FightCPS has a chatroom that you can use 24/7 to chat with other victims of child welfare laws.

Here’s the link: FightCPS Chatroom

I will be there on Friday evenings at 7pm Pacific Time for an open chat.
I am terrible at remembering to go to the chat! I apologize! I will leave a message on the front of the site any time I’m in the chatroom.

If anyone else would like to lead a chat please comment with your weekly start time, and a topic if you have one.

The server was down for a few hours today. This was not due to the government retaliating against this site… it was about a nameserver change, and the problem has now been taken care of. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone here.

I’m reading through your recent comments tonight. Only 51 left to go. I’m thrilled to read about Susan’s upcoming appearance on the Dr. Phil show. At the same time my heart is breaking along with yours when I read the sad stories of families being ripped apart. I’m also feeling gratitude at the many comments posted here to help others who are suffering.

As I read, I think about articles I should write. So many questions need to be answered. So many hearts need comfort. Laws need to be explained, along with court procedures and documents. Parents need to be warned about the deceitful ways of CPS agencies. Teachers and other mandated reporters need to be informed that when they call CPS, they are potentially putting children’s lives and happiness in danger.

Where should I start? What needs are the most important? Will you give me your opinions? Can you offer ways in which you could help? I am always open to getting new ideas and new projects started.

A day I waited for, with a sense of expectancy and joy, has come and gone. It was my youngest child’s eighteenth birthday.

As you know, with that birthday passed, my children can no longer be victims of an agency that pretends to protect them. I no longer have to worry about that knock at the door, with a government agent investigating my children and home.

I am free.

As God wills it, none of my children have children, so there are no worries about grandchildren being kidnapped. All of my children have chosen to be childless up to now, and it is a relief to me because now I can pursue family rights activism without worrying about CPS government agents wanting to retaliate against my family.

Is that cool, or what?

I’m here to apologize for not posting any articles yet this month. I’m taking a vacation from the site - and yes, you can call it a sanity break. The reason is that though I’m adamant about this issue - fighting CPS injustice - I sometimes get overwhelmed by the enormity of the problem. Hearing all these traumatic and sad stories day after day takes a toll on me, and I frequently must retreat, and do other things to keep myself from heartbreak.

I love you all very much, and care about you and your children, and want to see families together, not separated. For this reason I started this site - to put everything I know about fighting CPS out here where people can do their own research and come to their own conclusions about what to do. Often I get passionate pleas for help via email, and I don’t know what to do with them. I already wrote everything I could on this site, and I must ask you to read the site. I couldn’t possibly help everyone individually - I get about 700 visitors daily (as of the last time I looked at the stats for this site). If I were to answer all emails I’d not have time for anything else in my life. Please accept my most sincere apology if you wrote to me and didn’t get an answer. It is not humanly possible to answer everyone. Fight CPS isn’t an organization - it is just the humble effort of one concerned citizen.

While I’ve been gone from the site, I’ve still been reading the comments. I may have missed a few. I ask that anyone who comes here and reads comments - to let me know if you see anything that shouldn’t be there, like spam, or arguments. I need to take care of those things even if I’m taking a sanity break vacation from the site. There’s a webmaster link at the bottom of each page.

I will be back soon to share more articles about CPS. I appreciate that so many dedicated people are sharing their stories and help in the comments to each article, and in the guestbook. Don’t forget we have an awesome message board here. There are others helping to maintain that effort. It is really the more appropriate place for people to post requests for help/advice/ideas. (Remember we are not lawyers and don’t give “legal” advice… this is just a grassroots group of concerned citizens.)

One more thing - I am saddened to read Diando’s comment about having a social worker threaten her due to things she’s written on this site. Please, everyone - remember that you do not have to post with your real name. You’re welcome to hide your name and details.

All the best to all of you,

Linda

About a year ago I made a Squidoo Lens (page) featuring this website. As of this time, my lens, Fighting Child Protective Services False Allegations, is getting about 125 visits per week. I also made a few other Squidoo lenses on other topics that interest me.

This month I got my first payment from Squidoo. It came as a surprise because I’d forgotten about the site, and wasn’t working on making any new lenses for almost a year. They paid me $55 through PayPal.

I went back to Squidoo this month intent on making a few more lenses. Anything that pays me of course gets my interest because I’m just like most of you - a working person barely making it from month to month. A little extra income helps a lot! Well, I noticed that a lot of people had signed up for Squidoo from my FightCPS page, yet not one of them had made any pages of their own.

So I’m here to ask you all to consider making some Squidoo pages about your feelings about CPS. If you write about fighting CPS, I will feature your Squidoo lens on the front page of this site where I get over 700 visitors daily. All you have to do is make that lens!

I’ve also created a Squidoo “group” for us: Family Rights Lenses. I will add your lenses to this group (or you can add them yourself.)

Let’s make Family Rights a better-known issue on the Squidoo website.

Start here: Fighting Child Protective Services False Allegations

As part of my outreach - my effort to help CPS victims find this site - I’ve joined a number of social media sites using either my own name, or the name of FightCPS.

I hope you’ll help me in supporting these efforts.

Do you have a MySpace profile? Fight CPS At MySpace wants you as a friend.	This is a blog promotion site. I’d very much appreciate your votes in getting FightCPS listed on the front page there so more people can find out about our issues with Child Protective Services false allegations.
Technorati is a site for finding blog postings that are on a topic you want to read about. If everyone who came here registered at Technorati and added this site to their favorites list, this blog might reach the top-100 list, and become an issue many thousands of Americans would notice.	Is anyone else here using Twitter? If so, feel free to follow me there: Linda at Twitter. This is my personal Twitter account and you’ll see I’m interested in numerous topics, not just fighting CPS - but that’s something I’m always willing to write about. If you want to get to know me better and find out where my head is REALLY at, this is the place.
Check out the Fight CPS Squidoo Lens for information about the history and goals of Fight CPS. You can make a Squidoo Lens web page to tell people about your CPS case and information. It is very easy to sign up and create a page, plus you may earn some money by doing it.	Fight CPS is on Hover Spot

Is anyone else here using Twitter?

If so, feel free to follow me there: Linda at Twitter.

You can leave your Twitter URLs in the comment section to this message.

I noticed recently that someone said her comments weren’t posted. I don’t know why that was, but I know sometimes comments are caught in my spam-trap, particularly if they have links in them.

In the last two days, this site collected over six hundred spam comments. Right now I’m going through 14 pages of spam comments in my spam-trap, looking for comments that might have been left by actual visitors to this site. After rescuing them, I’ll delete the spam. This is not a pleasant task, particularly because I’m on dial up and there’s a long wait to get each lengthy page loaded into my browser. Also having to look at all that spammy writing is not how I’d like to spend my evening.

I rarely will delete a comment. If it isn’t something that looks like it could have legal liability to me, I usually won’t delete. So missing comments - I cannot tell you why they didn’t get posted. I don’t intentionally delete links from particular people for any reason, though I’ve been tempted by comments like those recently left by a self-righteous “all-knowing” (or so she seems to think) social worker. I leave it to YOU, the website visitors with the painful CPS experiences, to set her straight…. hopefully as kindly as possible. Remember, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Back to my daily or almost-daily spam deleting responsibilities.

If you would like to contribute your writing to the front page here at FightCPS, please read the following instructions carefully.

Writers Guidelines for FightCPS

1. To write directly to this front page, you must send me an email using the webmaster link at the bottom of the page, explaining who you are and why you would like to write for FightCPS. Your account status cannot be increased to include writer’s privileges until this is done.

2. No cut-and-paste articles from other sites are allowed, unless of course, it is something you have written. If you want to write about someone else’s site or article, that’s fine, but don’t copy anything except perhaps a brief occasional quote. Then link to the site where you found the information.

3. You can write about your case however be aware that this might have negative consequences, so I don’t advise it if the case is still open. When you write, avoid naming the people involved, such as social workers, psychologists, judges, etc. if they are mentioned in a negative manner. This is because in the past I’ve had to delete articles for people who were mentioned, and it was a lot of extra work for me, which I don’t need.

4. Articles that will be helpful to others involved in the child welfare system are especially needed.

5. Articles from caseworkers, fosterers, and others working in the system are allowed, but be aware that they will not be posted if they are at all insulting to the people who come to this site for help. If you want to write an article that is helpful, with tips on how to get through the system successfully and get the kids back, that would be appreciated. If you are working within the system please tell people what you do within the first paragraph.

6. You do not need to use your real name for public postings. I understand why many would prefer not to let others know who they are. But I do expect that you’ll tell me who you really are in the email you send me.

7. Do not write with all caps. Use capital letters where needed. Use good grammar. I will correct some grammatical and spelling errors but if your article is full of them, it is likely it will never get posted because there’s a limit on how much work I can do on getting an article ready for publication.

8. I will notify you if I can’t use your article or if it needs more editing than I’m willing or able to do. If I reject an article, please revise it or write something new.

9. Articles should be between 300 and 2000 words. If you have a photo to submit, there’s a way to upload them in the writing window. Photos should be no larger than 300 pixels wide. If you need help with a photo, write your article first, then email me about it.

I’ve often found things I’ve written on this site posted on other websites and blogs. It bothers me when this is done without giving a link back or any mention of who the author is - and many would consider that plagiarism. As the author of these postings, I have a copyright on everything I write, and if I find my words reposted elsewhere, and it doesn’t say “Written by Linda Martin of Fight CPS“, I get upset.

Usually I wouldn’t be upset by that if the person copying things at least mentioned that I’m the author and gave a link to this site, but most people apparently don’t bother to do this, which is why I’m writing this now.

God knows I want this message to be spread far and wide. However there are some limits.

Limits on what can be copied:

Please do NOT under any circumstances copy/paste any of the comments left by people on this site. These comments are all copyright to the authors, and since you can’t email them for permission (I don’t post the email addresses) you cannot get their permission to move their personal information to another place. So don’t do it.

Please do NOT under any circumstances copy/paste anything found on the message board. The only exception is if you get the permission of the person who wrote what you want to copy. Generally this is possible because you can private-mail people on the message board. I will stay out of that issue, unless someone tells me things are being copied without permission. If this happens, the person copying postings will lose access to the forum permanently. No exceptions. This is a very important privacy issue.

Please do NOT copy anything from this site without my written permission. You can easily email me using the webmaster link at the foot of every page. (On the message board, the webmaster link is at the top.) Anything copied MUST have my name as author (if I’m the author, and I am author of almost everything here) and MUST have a link back to the page of this site where you found the information. If I indicate in a post that I’m not the author, you would need to contact the author to get permission to repost something elsewhere.

Printing: You are welcome to print one copy of anything I write, for your own use. If you want to print more than one copy, email me for permission. Use the webmaster email link at the bottom of this page.

Thank you for your cooperation with these rules. If you follow these rules, you’ll be making me very happy.

Today I worked on improving the new Fight CPS Squidoo Lens. I wrote more text and added a place where you can add links to your favorite family rights site, your MySpace, family rights Yahoo groups, or whatever else you have going on here on the web.

Fight CPS is also at MySpace.

If you need help with a CPS case, the best way to get feedback is to log onto the message board here at Fight CPS.

It always astounds me when people come onto this site, say I’m not doing the right thing, and suggest some other thing I should be doing to help change the CPS system.

For example, today I checked the comments for this site and found a comment from Darrin who thinks I should be tracking down a man I’ve never met, whose name I don’t know, to get more information before posting something about a news article.

Sorry, Darrin. I don’t have time. Do it yourself if you think it needs to be done.

Then I came across Carla’s message about creating a new child protection system. Great idea, but again, I don’t have time. I think Carla should do it because after all, it is her idea.

This reminds me that not long ago John told me I should focus my efforts on getting more funding for foster children. Yeah, right… like I would ever do that! Foster parents already get lots more than welfare recipients, and they keep complaining. Don’t get me started on that one! If John thinks that’s the answer to all CPS problems, then John should do something about it.

We all are led by our hearts, to do what we think is right.

Back in October 2000, my heart told me to start this site. I’ve been struggling with this site for almost seven years now, and with trying to help people going through one of the most emotionally devastating events of their lives. And every time I hear about CPS injustice tearing a family apart, it takes a toll on me. I’m constantly upset by things I read on this site - for example what RJ just wrote about his infant being taken by a CPS agent at the hospital because his fiancé mentioned that she’d been depressed when she was 13 or 14. What teenager hasn’t? Why does that mean a firstborn child should be taken from its loving mother? This stuff really haunts me and grabs at my heart.

Many times it isn’t easy for me to bear - which is why I’ve left the message board here in the loving hands of other advocates and activists who want to help counsel people going through CPS hell. That is what their hearts tell them to do, and I’m so grateful for anyone doing anything to help change this inhumane system of cruelty to families. I don’t need or want to be the center of attention here. I’m only doing what my heart led me to do seven years ago, and I know it isn’t right to stop doing it yet. So here I am, still, after all these years.

Which brings me to the point of this article, which is that we all should listen to our hearts and our consciences, and take whatever actions we feel appropriate for the highest good of all involved. If your heart tells you to advocate for families one-on-one, then do it. Don’t expect me to - as that’s not what my heart tells me to do. You do your thing and I’ll do my thing. And hopefully if we all work on doing our heart-inspired tasks, together we can make huge changes in the world.

One person can’t do it all. Don’t even try… this problem is way too big for that. But do your own small part, just as I’m doing my own small part. And don’t think that this site is the ultimate family rights site. If your heart is telling you to create another one, there’s a reason for that! Maybe it is the right thing to do! Don’t hold back. Everyone has talents and capacities that can be drawn upon to help fight CPS and make this world a safer, healthier place for families. Do your own small part and don’t worry about what others are doing, and don’t be like Darrin, Carla and John, and try to tell others what they should be doing. That’s not helpful at all.

If you’ve read this far, I thank you. And I want to tell you what I’ve been doing lately.

It may surprise some people like the three I just mentioned, but I don’t spend all my time working on this website. I hold down a part-time job in my community, and I own two small businesses that are barely profitable… but they keep me busy. I live in an extremely low-budget cabin in the Klamath National Forest, which I rent. I’m not a lawyer and currently don’t work in the legal profession at all. I have a boyfriend I dearly love who expects me to spend a huge part of my time with him. I’m a 55-year-old woman (boyfriend is 56) and I still have one child at home, plus four adult children. My youngest is almost 18 and so soon, for the first time in 35 years, I’ll have no minor children to take care of. Also I have no grandchildren which considering the work I do on this site, could be a divine blessing and protection.

For the last few days my home has been threatened by a forest fire. I live in far-northern California, in a small town called Happy Camp. I came home from my birthday trip to the coast on Saturday night to find that there was a forest fire blazing on the hill next to the forested hill I live on. One of my part-time small businesses is the Happy Camp News site which I’m grateful to say, is in the process of being sold so I won’t have to keep working on it. But this week I’ve been posting articles about the fire, doing interviews, etc. plus I had to remove all my valuables from my home and pack everything, because it seemed that evacuation was imminent. At this point the fire is less intense, however that could change again. So all this stuff is going on, plus I’m still going to work where our workload tripled because of the huge numbers of fire fighters present in our town at this time.

Then I came in here and saw messages from Darrin and Carla, and well, this article is the end result. I don’t need anyone telling me what to do with my time, or saying I’m not doing enough by providing this site, some simple legal information, and a message board for people to connect on. This is what my heart leads me to do, and I’m doing it.

I know that most of the people who come to this site appreciate what I’ve done here. I’m sorry I’m not able to do one-on-one counseling and legal help, but I really don’t have the time or stamina, and like I said, hearing the sad stories affects my heart, and it is nearly more than I can bear at times. I’m a very sensitive person and I love you all.

I don’t want you to stop writing about your heartaches here - because I want the people that matter to come here and read these things. I want CPS workers to stop by and read what we think of their tactics for destroying families. I want foster parents to know that many of the children they are hostage-holding for the government are taken unfairly from innocent parents. I want legislators to come here and realize the CPS system is horrible, unjust, and inhumane. I want them to know that they must be the ones to take the lead, by writing laws to end this system of cruelty in our country. I want lawyers to know that if they aren’t defending their CPS clients actively and aggressively, they are doing a disservice, and are (in my opinion) frauds to be taking on clients they can’t or won’t defend properly. I want them to have the heart to do what must be done in court to safeguard family rights.

Enough said. Thanks for reading, and I’ll post more sometime when I’ve got more time on my hands for publicizing the details of all the injustice CPS does to harm children and families. That seems to be my lifework, which my heart draws me to. I’m here for you as much as I can be, and wherever else I am, you know I’m totally on your side, hoping for all good things to happen in your lives.

I just finished installing the WordPress blogging interface on this site. The old blogger.com archives are still available. The links are on the lower-right side of this page.

There were 786 posts in the old blog which I’ve been using since 2001. Ideally I’d like to migrate them over to the WordPress blog, but I’m not sure I’ll ever have the time. Still, it is a project I’m working on. The new blog will make it much easier for people to find us when they’re looking for help with their CPS cases. I’m also about to start paying for advertising this site through Google Adwords, to reach more people seeking help.

Thanks to everyone who has put a link to this site on theirs. It helps people find us through the search engines.

Now that WordPress is installed, you can make comments on the posts here. I’m still working on a few issues, but for the most part the update is done.