By: Andy Truthman
Child protective services agencies are only acting in accordance with Pavlov's laws of behavioral conditioning. They are exhibiting more and more of the behaviors that earn them a reward rather than doing those things which genuinely protect children who are being abused by their parents or caregivers.
It's a sick, sick system and as usual, it's not hard to find the root of the problem. Money, once again, is being the root of all evil.
In this case, the evil is a sweeping expansion of authority for child seizure and parental harassment in the name of preventative action for potential abuse. Good parents are being targeted, while real abusers are going free, or even worse, working at the very agencies set up to protect children from predators.
The government has been offering funding awards based on the number of children flagged as potential victims, so the number of abuse cases has skyrocketed. Yet even the child protective agencies themselves admit that 74% of the cases they investigate do not uncover any signs of abuse.
Instead, targeting healthy families and good parents earns the agencies in excess of 50 billion dollars in federal funding while putting thousands of solid American families under the gun and under suspicion.
CHILD PROTECTIVE: UNACCOUNTABLE
Even worse than the many false accusations thrown out against upstanding families is the way most child protective service agencies remain completely unaccountable for their actions. They are not audited for quality, and they certainly don't seem to live by the same rules as everyone else.
They are incentivized to find abuse where there is none, and all too willing to ignore abuse happening right under their noses. While parents are subjected to the third degree and psychological evaluation, many agency employees are not even subject routine background checks.
They are nothing more than petty bureaucrats on a power and money hunt at the expense of the American family. Many work the system for their own sick and twisted ends, like the employee in Florida who turned out to be paying children to pose for sexual photos after they had been placed in agency care.
UNFORGIVABLE
Eight counts of being sexually predatory later, the agency agreed... to apologize and renew its commitment to serving the community. Oh, and maybe they would do some background checks on their employees.
Good parents can't camp out with the Girl Scouts without submitting to a full background check, but the people who can take children from their homes and throw them in foster care are unmonitored. What a wonderful use of taxpayer money!
Clearly, the social services system is not working, as it should. With numbers and dollars emphasized over true investigation and care of abused children, things are not going to get any better in the near future, either.
Americans need to resist the expansion of a broken system. It is not heartless to oppose social services initiatives - given the kinds of things, these agencies are up to, it is only good common sense to work to have them shut down and reorganized along appropriate priorities.
Who's fully protecting America's children? Always seek the truth!
Before the 1st April, last year,it used to cost £150, to instigate Care Proceedings, within the UK,and now can cost up to £5000,and with Care Proceedings increasing, by as much as 75%, since the death of Baby Peter,they, Social Services, are not put off, by spending millions of pounds, at the taxpayers expense,and then comes the Foster Care issue, CPS,would rather use this clause, than allowing, immediate family members, to take on the Caring roll.
ReplyDeleteAlso they allow Private Foster Care agencies,to pay their clients, up to £800 a week, for each child.
CHILD LAUNDERING AT ITS BEST.
Alison Stevens Parents Against Injustice.