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.

In Scotland a twelve-year-old girl is sick with rickets. Her vegan diet is to blame, according to doctors who are reporting the family to child welfare authorities there.

Vegans are vegetarians who don’t use dairy products. Apparently rickets is a deficiency of vitamin D - and I find it strange that veganism is being blamed since you can get vitamin D from exposure to sunshine.

At Macrobiotics and Rickets parents speak out saying they’ve raised children on vegan diets without Rickets or any other diseases. The cases they’ve seen may be attributed to lack of sunshine in very young children, or lack of a balanced diet, for example, too much wheat, which doesn’t have vitamin D.

A Dr. Jym Moon is quoted on the macrobiotics site: “The most important thing to know about rickets is that it is not a “vitamin deficiency disease”. It is, in fact, a lack of SUNSHINE that causes rickets.

“Vitamin D” is not a normal component of the diet of most people throughout the world. The statement in the article is not accurate in that it states that it implies that “dairy products, meat and wheat” are good sources of vitamin D and calcium.

Neither meat nor wheat contain any vitamin D and dairy products would not contribute much “vitamin D” to the diet, if they were not heavily fortified.

Since sunshine, not diet, is the major factor influencing development of rickets, the article needs to be more carefully evaluated. If, for instance, dark-skinned (Asian or African, etc) macrobiotics move to Glasgow (the seat of rickets in the 1620s), they would be well-advised to provide their infants with a source of “vitamin D”, and this would effectively prevent them from developing rickets.”

The article I read about the vegan parents in Scotland cites a USA case in which the vegan parents of a child that died have been sentenced to prison for life. It seems there must be a lot more to this story; it is too bad the news agencies aren’t more forthcoming with information.

Source: Parents of ill vegan girl may face police by Mark Macaskill, published on June 8, 2008 in the Times Online: Scotland News.

Side note: I’m a long-time vegetarian and recently became vegan after a ten day cleansing diet. I’ve never felt better.

Katie Wernecke, 14, was taken from her family by CPS two years ago, not because she was being abused or neglected, but because CPS agents and doctors didn’t agree with her parents’ decisions regarding her cancer treatment. At the age of 12 Katie, a resident of Agua Dulce, Texas, had Hodgkin’s disease. Her parents sought an alternative treatment for her. That right was denied to them.

CPS took Katie Wernecke from her family and forced her to undergo court ordered medical treatments. A judge allowed her to go home in November 2005, and though the family is grateful to have been reunited they believe their Constitutional Rights were violated. The lawsuit, filed by a Frisco, Texas attorney, is based on violations of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution.

The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. CPS child detentions are considered a seizure. The Fourteenth Amendment protects property and legal rights, and ensures that citizens have due process rights.

Many people have sued CPS in Federal Courts based on the violation of these Constitutional Rights.

Source: Wernecke family suing Nueces County, CPS by Erin Cargile of KRIS-TV.

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The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution:

Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Three-year-old Julia may have been taken from her parents, not because of abuse, but because of a brittle bone disease. The appellate court ordered for Julia to be returned to her parents but as of this time, she’s still in the kinship care foster home of her aunt and uncle. Saratoga County, New York, is requesting that the case be reviewed by the state’s highest court.

Apparently when she was younger, Julia suffered broken bones and had red splotchy-looking marks on her. Some doctors claimed this could be evidence of child abuse but the family says it could be a brittle bone disease - osteogenesis imperfecta (OI).

Source: County to appeal in ‘brittle bone’ abuse case