I took your advice and started a FightCPS Facebook Fan Page.

This is the guestbook for March 2010. You’re welcome to tell us about yourself and why you’re here.

If you want feedback on your case, register at the Fight CPS Message Forum where there are advocates and activists waiting to hear from you. Please note it may take 10 to 48 hours to get your message board account approved. We need to approve them all individually.

People who need CPS defense lawyers can post their information here…

If you post an email address to be contacted, please post it in this format:
yourname - at - yourdomain.com . . . this will prevent spammers from stealing your email address and innundating you with unwanted emails.

Please note: This does not guarantee that anyone will ever contact you. Lawyers are free to scan the postings to this page, and if they are interested in representing you, can contact you directly. This website doesn’t have the manpower to match people with lawyers, and there’s no money here for paying lawyers for you. Also please remember that most lawyers are not interested in doing pro-bono work. You will probably need to agree to some kind of payment obligation to get an attorney to work for you.

Please read before posting:

If you have a court appointed attorney, read:
Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU

Check out this page:
Lawyers who take CPS defense cases - but do NOT post there unless you’re a lawyer accepting CPS cases, or someone recommending a CPS defense lawyer.

This is the place for Fight CPS prayer requests during March 2010. Click the comments link below to make a request for prayer.

FightCPS is a secular site and is not aligned with any particular religion, political party, or organization.

FightCPS is intended for all families needing support and information to fight false allegations of child abuse or neglect.

It is acknowledged that many people find help by appealing to a higher power. I personally feel this is the best way to get effective help.

This is the guestbook for February 2010.

If you want feedback on your case, register at the Fight CPS Message Forum where there are advocates and activists waiting to hear from you. Please note it may take 10 to 48 hours to get your message board account approved. We need to approve them all individually.

Note: This thread is closed to new comments. Please refer to the most recent guestbook thread to leave your message.

People who need CPS defense lawyers can post their information here…

Please post on the most recent page of lawyer requests.

Please note: This does not guarantee that anyone will ever contact you. Lawyers are free to scan the postings to this page, and if they are interested in representing you, can contact you directly. This website doesn’t have the manpower to match people with lawyers, and there’s no money here for paying lawyers for you. Also please remember that most lawyers are not interested in doing pro-bono work. You will probably need to agree to some kind of payment obligation to get an attorney to work for you.

Please read before posting:

If you have a court appointed attorney, read:
Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU

Check out this page:
Lawyers who take CPS defense cases - but do NOT post there unless you’re a lawyer accepting CPS cases, or someone recommending a CPS defense lawyer.

This is the place for Fight CPS prayer requests during February 2010.

Please refer to the most recent prayer requests page to leave your request.

FightCPS is a secular site and is not aligned with any particular religion, political party, or organization.

FightCPS is intended for all families needing support and information to fight false allegations of child abuse or neglect.

It is acknowledged that many people find help by appealing to a higher power. I personally feel this is the best way to get effective help.

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.

I just found a note on the message board from a man who is using Meetup.Com to start his new group, the Virginia Family Association.

Great idea!

Anyone else want to start something new? Meetup.Com.

Once you’ve got people in your states organized you can work together to help state legislators understand how CPS laws need to be changed.

Don’t forget the State Sovereignty Movement! Get rid of unconstitutional federal child welfare laws!

This thread is for you to post your favorite websites about families victimized by CPS. You can also post your websites, blogs, MySpace pages, Facebook pages, or anything like that, so that others can connect with you.

Lots of links to other sites… that’s what I’m hoping for here. I’ll start off with a few. See the comments section!

Non-custodial parents have such a difficult path to walk. They miss their children like crazy, have to send child support to the other parent monthly (or to the county!) and often the children are brainwashed into hating them. That’s what happened to me, with one of my children - my middle daughter.

My husband and his girlfriend had control of two of my children, did everything they could to shut me out of their lives, and caused me years of intense grief. Worse, they trained my daughter to hate me, and even now, many years later, she still hasn’t talked to me in any kind of loving daughter-to-mother way. She’s now 29.

So you non-custodial parents who are suffering grief because your children are with the other parent, or with foster parents, or have aged out and now hate you due to PAS (Parental Alienation Syndrome) . . . this is a special day for you. A day of appreciation and love.

Appreciation and love? You may be wondering if your child will ever be able to love and appreciate you. The problem is complex and doesn’t start with your child. If your child has been ripped from your loving embrace, and brainwashed by being given positive feedback for expressing negativity about you, the child isn’t likely to be the first one to recover from the experience. It is essential that non-custodial parents are able to love and appreciate themselves. We can also appreciate each other because we’re aware of the pain this entails.

Do something good for yourself today. Here’s a few ideas: start a journal if you don’t have one going yet. Start writing poetry about your missing child. Take walks to help work out your feelings. Leave a prayer request on my prayer request page which will signal me to pray for you for the next thirty days. Be gentle on yourself, even when others are cruel. You can get through this, and things will get better, of that I am sure.

This is the first Non-Custodial Parents Day ever. I chose it because it is my daughter’s 29th birthday. I couldn’t face writing her name on my calendar another year, knowing she doesn’t care about me one bit. PAS is heart-wrenching! So this year when I looked at my January calendar I wrote “Mother Appreciation Day” . . . and then I thought, why not make it a day for ALL non-custodial parents?

Please spread this message far and wide to other parents who are missing their children. Give them my love, and my appreciation for the strength they show in the face of extreme ignorance and traumatizing cruelty.

(Yes, you can copy and paste this post - I want everyone to know that we’ve got our own day now. I’d very much appreciate if you would give a link back to FightCPS: http://www.fightcps.com)

Have a great day.

This is the guestbook for January 2010.

If you want feedback on your case, register at the Fight CPS Message Forum where there are advocates and activists waiting to hear from you. Please note it may take 10 to 48 hours to get your message board account approved. We need to approve them all individually.

Note: This thread is closed to new comments. Please refer to the most recent guestbook thread to leave your message.