Exclusive: 'The system broke me' says carer forced to give up foster parenting

Increasing numbers of foster parents are quitting as more than 6,000 vulnerable children across the country are in care or in need of care, the highest number ever.

Three-and-a-half years ago four foster kids came into an Auckland home. Now they're all gone, the strain of looking after them too much for their foster mother.

More >> Exclusive: 'The system broke me' says carer forced to give up foster parenting

Former Rochdale social worker sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment for historic sex offences

A former Rochdale social worker has been sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment after appearing at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court on Friday (29 June).

James Peter Gavin (20/04/1936), of College Bank Way, sexually abused a young boy during the 1970s.

More >> Former Rochdale social worker sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment for historic sex offences

Bartlett Woman Indicted On Charges Of Embezzling $130,000+ From Adoption/Family Services Agency

The former office manager for a Christian adoption and family services agency has been indicted for allegedly embezzling more than $130,000 from the business over a five-year period, Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich said Friday.

More >> Bartlett Woman Indicted On Charges Of Embezzling $130,000+ From Adoption/Family Services Agency

One woman's Family Court struggle: 'It would be easier to deal with if my son had died'

Judith* has seen her son once in the seven years since she split with his father. She has been left with little faith the current system can do anything about it.

"In reality I've probably lost my son forever."

More >> One woman's Family Court struggle: 'It would be easier to deal with if my son had died'

Jury takes less than two hours to convict Portage man on three counts of sexual misconduct with foster child

A jury took just less than two hours Thursday to find a Portage man guilty on all three counts of sexual misconduct with an underage girl, who was in the foster care of the man's mother.

Taliaferro Buckingham, 38, was taken into custody and faces sentencing July 27, according to the court.

More >> Jury takes less than two hours to convict Portage man on three counts of sexual misconduct with foster child

A painful separation for mom and daughter underscores benefits of reunification

A ceremony in Lihue on Wednesday paid tribute to a Kauai mother and daughter who have endured a difficult journey.

Estrella Barnett and her 8-year-old daughter, Alexi Audiss, were separated by Child Welfare Services two years ago. Now that they've been reunited, their bond is stronger than ever.

More >> A painful separation for mom and daughter underscores benefits of reunification

The U.S. Has A Long History Of Drugging Distressed Kids In Its Custody

Among the most disturbing allegations against privately operated shelters publicized last week by a Reveal and Texas Tribune investigation was the charge that the Office of Refugee Resettlement “routinely administers children psychotropic drugs without lawful authorization,” according to court filings. 

More >> The U.S. Has A Long History Of Drugging Distressed Kids In Its Custody

How to talk to CPS Workers

Social workers are trained to conduct interviews of both children and parents.  They are taught different techniques to build trust and to get information.  The are taught ways to dig for more dirt if they hear something that sparks their curiosity.  A keyword might be spoken that catches her attention and she starts asking questions about it.  She leads the conversation in that direction.  She can play the bate and switch game, she can leave you wondering how she got you to say those things.  Before you know it, you give her all the evidence that she needs to take your kid away.

More >> How to talk to CPS Workers

Portage woman testifies that foster child never told her about alleged sexual abuse while in her care

The foster mom of a girl who claims she was sexually assaulted while in her care told jurors Wednesday afternoon the girl never brought the accusations to her attention.

Rosalyn Buckingham, who also is mother of the accused, Taliaferro Buckingham, testified after prosecutors wrapped up their case in this week's trial.

More >> Portage woman testifies that foster child never told her about alleged sexual abuse while in her care

25 FB accounts engaging in illegal adoption reported to authorities

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Virginia Orogo appealed to the public to course adoption through legal processes to “safeguard abandoned and neglected children.”

“Not only by giving these children loving homes, but to ensure that they are provided, under the law, with full rights similar to biological children in order to reach their best potential,” she added

More >> 25 FB accounts engaging in illegal adoption reported to authorities

Anti-child abuse advocate arrested for trying to have sex with kids

The head of a charity that campaigns against sexual violence has been arrested in New York for child pornography and allegedly trying to meet with children as young as two for sex.

Joel Davis, 22, is accused of trying to set up sexual encounters between himself and young children, as well as soliciting an undercover FBI agent to send sexually explicit videos of minors.

More >> Anti-child abuse advocate arrested for trying to have sex with kids

Mother of 5-year-old killed by father sues LA County, says social worker could have prevented his death

The mother of a 5-year-old South Pasadena boy who was killed by his father is suing Los Angeles County, alleging the Department of Children and Family Services is partly to blame for her child’s death.

More >> Mother of 5-year-old killed by father sues LA County, says social worker could have prevented his death

Man who raped ex-partner and her teenage foster daughter in 'night of horror' jailed for 18 years

A man who broke into his ex-partner's home before repeatedly raping her and her teenage foster daughter during a coke fuelled “night of horror” has been jailed for 18 years.

The 37 year old Limerick man, who cannot be named, threatened the child's foster mother with a knife during the night long ordeal which only ended when he fell asleep the next morning.

More >> Man who raped ex-partner and her teenage foster daughter in 'night of horror' jailed for 18 years

Take it from a former foster kid — the system is broken

With all the issues with the Department of Health and Human Services, I feel compelled to write.

Being raised in foster care system along with my three siblings, we were the four Weisbacker children that fell through the cracks of the system in the state of Maine.

More >> Take it from a former foster kid — the system is broken

More Adopted Children, Who Are Adults Now, Look For Birth Parents

More international adoptees in the U.S. are looking for their birth parents than ever before. This has to do with a culmination of factors — from the rise of social media to better record keeping.

More >> More Adopted Children, Who Are Adults Now, Look For Birth Parents

Adopted children 'barely surviving' in high-pressure schools

Adopted children who have suffered traumatic early experiences are “barely surviving” in the current high-pressure school environment and need greater support if they are to have an equal chance of success, a charity has said.

They are falling behind in their studies because they are struggling to cope emotionally with the demands of the current education system which “prizes exam results at the expense of wellbeing”, according to a report from Adoption UK.

More >> Adopted children 'barely surviving' in high-pressure schools

Sibling trio all live at different foster homes, but want to be together again

Aaliyah, Christopher and Patrick all live apart right now, but they are adamant about finding one place to call home.

Patrick, Chris and Aaliyah share similar interests, but their personalities are quite different.

More >> Sibling trio all live at different foster homes, but want to be together again

Report: Caseworker called 911 after being bound to tree in Tucson

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Duct tape, zip ties and a taser were all used on a caseworker found bound to a tree in a park on Tucson's south side on May 4, according to police records.

The reports cover the kidnapping of two young children by their parents during a supervised visit.

More >> Report: Caseworker called 911 after being bound to tree in Tucson

Child services agency's error means child abuse report against dad of 6 must be purged

A fumble by a Children and Youth Services agency means a child abuse report must be removed from the record of a man accused of threatening to kill family members, a Commonwealth Court panel ruled Tuesday.

That expungement is mandatory because in contesting it the Chester County Department of Children, Youth and Families failed to prove which of his six children the man threatened, Senior Judge Dan Pellegrini found in the court's opinion.

More >> Child services agency's error means child abuse report against dad of 6 must be purged

Report: Child services returned 10-year-old to Lancaster home where he was being abused

Just as in the case of Gabriel Fernandez, the 8-year-old Palmdale boy who died after torture at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend, there were numerous indications of child abuse before 10-year-old Anthony Avalos of Lancaster died of serious head injuries last week, cigarette burns covering his body, but the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services did not remove him from the home where he was being tormented, it was reported today.

More >> Report: Child services returned 10-year-old to Lancaster home where he was being abused

Ex-FDLE supervisor on trial for allegedly abusing 4 young boys, including 2 foster kids

A former Florida Department of Law Enforcement supervisor who was in charge of investigating child sex crimes is on trial for allegedly molesting four young boys, including two foster children who lived with his family.

Charles McMullen faces one count of sexual battery of a child under 12, seven counts of lewd and lascivious molestation on a child under 12 and one count of promoting the sexual performance of a child.

More >> Ex-FDLE supervisor on trial for allegedly abusing 4 young boys, including 2 foster kids

POINT C

I don't know how much better this can be said.


Point C  is a  5 minute fable about a child of divorcing parents, which in 2018 was shared with law schools and judicial and legal associations throughout the United States and United Kingdom. Parents  and professionals  who participate in  hostile  separation or divorce proceedings regarding the "best interests" of a child  may strongly relate to  the story  and message of  Point C.  If you know someone who you feel  may benefit from watching this tale, please share.   For more information about  Point C,  please  visit www.pointcvideo.com.

Iowa couple accused of feeding adopted kids only oatmeal, confining them to plastic-lined rooms

An Osceola couple is facing charges after investigators say they neglected and endangered the health of two children they adopted from Ghana.

Online court records show 42-year-old Kenny Fry and 40-year-old Kelly Fry are each charged with neglect or abandonment of a dependent person, child endangerment-bodily injury, and child endangerment.

More >> Iowa couple accused of feeding adopted kids only oatmeal, confining them to plastic-lined rooms

Study: Half of Kids Born to Teen Moms in Foster Care Will Wind Up in Foster Care Themselves

Half of children born to mothers in foster care will also enter into the child welfare system by their second birthday, according to a study published in this month’s issue of the journal Pediatrics. 

The intergenerational cycle of foster care is a well-known phenomenon to advocates and child welfare workers, but new data illustrates the significance of this pipeline into foster care.

More >>  Study: Half of Kids Born to Teen Moms in Foster Care Will Wind Up in Foster Care Themselves

Lawsuit Exposes State in Taking Kids from Parents and Heavily Drugging them with Psychotropics

Foster children in Missouri have been dangerously over-medicated with antipsychotic drugs — intended to treat conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia — to manage behavioral disorders like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to a new civil rights lawsuit, which instead effectively puts them in “a chemical straightjacket.”

More >> Lawsuit Exposes State in Taking Kids from Parents and Heavily Drugging them with Psychotropics

Parents stranded in Japan relieved as Canada issues visas for adopted children

After many sleepless nights in Tokyo hotel rooms, five Canadian families will finally be able to return home with the Japanese-born children they are adopting.

After weeks of being caught in bureaucratic confusion over cross-Pacific adoptions, the Canadian Embassy in Manila has issued the necessary visas for the children to return home with their adoptive parents, according to one of the parents involved.

More >> Parents stranded in Japan relieved as Canada issues visas for adopted children

The multibillion-dollar business of sheltering migrant children, explained

Tens of thousands of migrant children wind up in government-sponsored shelters. Here’s what it costs and how it works.

More >> The multibillion-dollar business of sheltering migrant children, explained

• Housing immigrant kids is big business for a non-profit paying its CEO nearly $1.5 million - Non-profit makes big money housing migrant kids
• The businesses making millions from Trump's child separation policy
• Local agencies taking in separated children have federal contracts surpassing $200 million

Of course a lot of these agencies are about to be cut off when the kids are reunited with their parents right?

• Trump administration releases plan to reunite migrant children with parents in mass detention center - Federal officials released a plan Saturday evening to reunify migrant children with their parents in a mass detention center near Brownsville, Texas.
• Trump administration says it knows the location of all border children
• 2,053 Children Still in Custody, Won’t Be Reunited With Parents Until Deportation Proceedings Completed: Officials
• Immigrant children in custody at border will be reunited with families by end of Friday
• 500 migrant children separated under zero tolerance policy reunited with families, Trump administration says
• She got her son back after suing the Trump administration
• Migrant children: Separated from his mother, 7-year-old boy is one of first to be reunited
• 'They’re Anxious.' Separated Migrant Children in Foster Care Are Now in Limbo After Trump’s Immigration Order

If they can find them that is...

• Chaos as parents, lawyers try to find separated children
• Michigan can't track 54 migrant children separated from parents
• Trump administration: Some children currently in Border Patrol custody will be reunited with parents
• Trump administration lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied child immigrants last year, figures suggest

But not before they mess them up...

• Court Case Alleges Children in US Custody Were Drugged
• Migrant Children Report Physical, Verbal Abuse In At Least 3 Federal Detention Centers
• Hundreds of kids headed from detention centers to shelters repeatedly cited for cruelty and abuse
• Young immigrants detained in Virginia center allege abuse

But who says it's going to be any better?

• Trading 'One Form of Child Abuse for Another,' Trump Executive Order Called a Sham, Not a Fix - "Instead of imprisoning children in separate internment camps away from their parents, this administration will now imprison children in the same internment camps as their parents."

Town again considers fines for police calls to Southington group home

Town officials are again considering fines for police calls to a Birchcrest Drive group, saying the responses cost taxpayers about $10,000 over the past two years.

The ordinance review committee discussed a draft of the proposed fines at its meeting Wednesday.  Despite support from some committee members, the committee chair and town attorney raised concerns that an ordinance could get the town entangled in a costly federal lawsuit.

More >> Town again considers fines for police calls to Southington group home

Ankeny couple gets probation for physically, verbally abusing adopted children

An Ankeny couple will spend two years on probation after pleading guilty to abusing two of their nine adopted children last year.

John, 56, and Joyce, 58, Bell each pleaded guilty in May to two counts of child endangerment. The couple was sentenced Thursday afternoon by Polk County District Court Judge Heather Lauber.

More >> Ankeny couple gets probation for physically, verbally abusing adopted children

Verdict: Man found guilty of aggravated manslaughter in child's death

Guilty! Wednesday night foster father Michael Beer was taken away from St. Lucie County court in cuffs after a jury found him guilty of killing the two-year-old in his care. The murder case shocked the community four years ago.


Jurors deliberated for about seven-and-half hours after hearing closing arguments Wednesday afternoon. Their guilty verdict was read aloud at 8:45 p.m.

More >> Verdict: Man found guilty of aggravated manslaughter in child's death

DCS employees sued for allegedly placing foster child in home with sex offender

The attorney representing the then 7-year-old foster child says the child was subsequently molested by the sex offender.

More >> DCS employees sued for allegedly placing foster child in home with sex offender

Foster children left at risk by living with teenagers not vetted by gardaí

An inspection of foster families has found some children are living in homes where not all young adults in the house are Garda vetted, a report revealed yesterday.

The law states that once a person is 16 and living in the same home as a fostered child they must be checked out by gardaí for safety reasons.

More >> Foster children left at risk by living with teenagers not vetted by gardaí

Family Separation: It’s a Problem for U.S. Citizens, Too

In May, when the outrage over the separation of migrant children from their parents was beginning to boil, President Trump’s secretary for Homeland Security shrugged off accusations that it was a “form of state terror.” After all, she said, “We do it every day in every part of the country.”

More >> Family Separation: It’s a Problem for U.S. Citizens, Too

5 Times Child Protective Services Separated Kids from Parents for No Good Reason

Even if President Trump's new order keeps immigrant families at the border from being torn asunder, we will still live in a country where the government can seize children from perfectly loving, competent parents. It happens all the time, and not just to immigrant families—American citizens deal with these injustices as well, thanks to the actions of child protective services.

More >> 5 Times Child Protective Services Separated Kids from Parents for No Good Reason

Pa. lawmaker calls for state to create child welfare watchdog

Thirty-nine states have independent offices that act as a child welfare watchdog for at-risk children and families. Now, state Rep. Katharine Watson wants Pennsylvania to be the next to create the child ombudsman position.

More >> Pa. lawmaker calls for state to create child welfare watchdog

Tampa Child Welfare Puts Too Many Kids in Foster Care Due to Media Fear, State Report Says

Responding to revelations by Tampa, Florida television station WFLA-TV, revelations that included foster children forced to spend their days, and sometimes nights, literally parked in cars in a convenience store parking lot, the head of the Florida Department of Children and Families, Mike Carroll, sprang into action! Just kidding — he did what buck-passing “leaders” always do in such situations: He named a committee to study the matter.

Specifically, he named a “peer review team.” As the name suggests, the group was made up of people who are or were themselves key players in running various aspects of child welfare — in other words, a group likely to identify less with the victims of the mess than the perpetrators.

More >> Tampa Child Welfare Puts Too Many Kids in Foster Care Due to Media Fear, State Report Says

Basic Immigration Law

In light of all that is going on at the border with children and families and no matter what side of the issue you fall on, nobody else should speak about anything to do with illegal immigration until they watch this video. 

Attorney Rinaldo Del Gallo III does a great job of explaining basic immigration law after he watched a US Senator who didn't know what he was talking about grill a Homeland Security official.

So many people, including a US Senator, just don't know what they are talking about with respect to immigration laws.

This is A NO NONSENSE PRIMER ON THE BASICS OF IMMIGRATION LAW, which takes no position on current immigration issues.

But if you are going to talk about a subject, you need to know what you are talking about. One US Senator obviously did not.

Diana man sentenced to 4 life sentences for sexual assault of adopted daughter

A Diana man will not be eligible for parole until the year 2148 for sexually assaulting his adopted daughter, a jury decided Thursday.

Mark Randall Beasley, 59, was sentenced to life sentences on four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and 20 years on a charge of indecency with a child, according to Upshur County District Attorney Billy Byrd. The sentences will be served consecutively. Beasley had previously pleaded guilty to the charges.

More >> Diana man sentenced to 4 life sentences for sexual assault of adopted daughter

Judge under fire for allegedly lying to help friend win custody of child for Mother's Day

A state Superior Court judge in Passaic County is facing removal from office for allegedly aiding a friend in a child custody dispute, lying to authorities and manipulating phone records to cover her tracks, a panel of judges told the state Supreme Court. 

Three Superior Court judges found that Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi — who was the presiding judge for criminal cases in Bergen County from 2010 to 2015 and was transferred to Passaic County, where she handled civil litigation — demonstrated “patent abuse of office” when she helped Vivianne Chermont, a former judicial intern, win custody of her child for Mother’s Day weekend in 2015, according to court documents released Wednesday. 

More >> Judge under fire for allegedly lying to help friend win custody of child for Mother's Day

Pennsylvania Supreme Court blocks release of Catholic Church child abuse report

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a stay [order, PDF] of proceedings Wednesday, suspending the release of a grand jury investigation regarding sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests.

The report was expected to run hundreds of pages long, including interviews with victims, covering six dioceses [AP report]. There is no information as to who filed the appeal for the stay.

More >> Pennsylvania Supreme Court blocks release of Catholic Church child abuse report

Irish adoption files under examination

HUNDREDS, if not thousands, of Irish people are unaware that their parents are not their birth parents after the uncovering of a scandal in which adoption societies, from at least the 1940s until 1969, incorrectly registered births when they gave or sold “illegitimate” children to adoptive parents.

The practice of adoption of such babies was run by religious orders of nuns, including the Sisters of Charity. An investigation of files on children at the Sisters of Charity’s adoption society, St Patrick’s Guild, has revealed that at least 126 people were affected and are now being traced and informed of the situation.

More >> Irish adoption files under examination

Migrant Children Drugged Without Consent At Government Centers, Court Documents Show

Staff working on the behalf of the Office of Refugee Resettlement are routinely drugging detained child migrants with psychotropics without their parents’ consent, according to legal filings.

Trump administration officials have repeatedly insisted that the family separation policy they implemented over the last six weeks is humane. But the ongoing lawsuit over the Flores agreement, a 1997 settlement that partly governs the detention of child migrants that the White House hopes to overturn, alleges a litany of wrongdoings at the ORR-contracted facilities.

More >> Migrant Children Drugged Without Consent At Government Centers, Court Documents Show

• The Trump administration is stealing children; private facilities are drugging and abusing them
• Psychology Experts Condemn Taking Migrant Children From Parents: 'That Is Child Abuse'
• Despite Trump's executive order, families may never be put back together
• What it's like to be a foster parent for separated migrant kids
• Separating Immigrant Families Is Costing Millions More Than Keeping Them Together
• Connecticut Receives Migrant Children Separated From Parents At Southern Border
• LePage: Migrant 'parents have a right to take their children and go back home'
• Gov. LePage says he would 'absolutely' send Maine troops to border if asked
• Maine agrees to send 2 National Guard pilots to border
• Commercial airlines ask that migrant children separated from parents not be on its flights
• House Democrats Propose Bill to Counter Trump's 'Dangerous' Executive Order to Lock Up Families Indefinitely

Trump signs order that he says will keep migrant families together

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that he says will keep migrant families together during detention on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The president backed down from his administration's policy of splitting migrant families, which for days the White House insisted could only end through congressional action. Facing a nationwide uproar and bipartisan calls to at least temporarily end the practice, the president said he "didn't like the sight or feeling of families being separated."

More >> Trump signs order that he says will keep migrant families together

FLASHBACK: LOS FEDERALES TOOK THIS AMERICAN WOMAN’S KIDS AWAY FOR LETTING THEM WALK HOME ALONE

Democrats and some Republicans are losing their minds because border officials are following the law by separating illegal immigrant families at the border, but state officials were also following the law when they investigated and found an American couple guilty of neglect for letting their kids walk home alone.

People are clamoring over the alleged mistreatment of illegal immigrant children, but a mother and father were investigated and found guilty of child neglect by Maryland Child Protective Services (MCPS) in 2015 when they let their kids walk home by themselves. MCPS told the Silver Spring parents their kids would be forced into foster homes unless they made a safety plan. Parents can’t leave kids under eight years home alone in Maryland.

More >> FLASHBACK: LOS FEDERALES TOOK THIS AMERICAN WOMAN’S KIDS AWAY FOR LETTING THEM WALK HOME ALONE

'What's wrong with DCS?' One foster parent's answers may surprise you

Almost 16 and a half thousand children are in the state's foster care system.

While Gov. Holcomb promises to improve the embattled department of child services, Eyewitness News went looking for an expert.

More >> 'What's wrong with DCS?' One foster parent's answers may surprise you

The Media Circus at the Border

This is the hottest distraction of the day, I am going to try to make a little sense out of it for you.

All of the following links were posted within the last 24 hours.

Here we go.

Whose to blame?

• Report: Illegal immigration harms blacks, robs social services from legal Americans
• Ted Cruz’s Proposal to Fix Child Separation Is a Cynical Ploy
• Ted Cruz says child-parent separations at border tied to a court order
• The Bible’s message on separating immigrant children from parents is a lot different from what Jeff Sessions thinks
• Sessions avoids blaming Democrats for detention policy, downplays Nazi parallels
• Sessions on border separations: 'We're doing the right thing. We're taking care of these children'
• Sessions: Migrant Children Facilities Not Like Nazi Germany Because ‘They Were Keeping The Jews From Leaving’
• More than 600 members of Jeff Sessions' church charge him with violating church rules
• Unapologetic Trump digs in on immigration despite outrage
• White House defends border family separations
• Watch: White House briefs the press amid controversy over separation of immigrant families
• Trump administration offers few details on the fate of over 2,000 children separated from parents
• Border separations ripple through midterm campaigns
• Republican leaders, Trump meet in effort to end policy of separating families at border
• Was the ‘Law to Separate Families’ Passed in 1997 or ‘by Democrats’?

Whose Against It?

• 13 GOP senators ask administration to pause separation of immigrant families
• G.O.P. Moves to End Trump’s Family Separation Policy, but Can’t Agree How
• Republicans craft bill to keep detained families together
• Collins joins group of senators asking stop to family separation
• Sen. Collins says she’s seeking a solution as pressure builds to stop splitting families at U.S. border
• Maine delegation weighs in on controversial immigration policy
• The Democratic Senate bill that would stop family separations, explained
• Democratic Attorneys General Ask Trump Administration to End Family Separations
• Massachusetts Democrats seek end to Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' immigration policy
• NJ Democrats demand end to immigration policy of separating families at the border
• Microsoft takes a stand against ICE separating parents from children
• Separating families is evil
• Gov. Scott asks Trump administration to stop separating families
• Florida lawmakers file bill to end family separation at U.S. border
• Panetta, others, introduce Keep Families Together Act companion bill
• Several California lawmakers call border separations cruel
• L.A. County officials oppose Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' policy, direct agencies to assist children
• State Dept. Q&A unleashes condemnation, mockery of administration's immigration policy
• Governors Refuse to Send National Guard to Border, Citing Child Separation Practice
• Governors call National Guard troops back from southwest US due to family separation issue
• Multiple states removing National Guard from border due to Trump policy
• US defense contractors profit from child detention—and you might, too
• Family separations at the border alarm child-welfare experts
• Geraldo Loses It on ‘Hannity’ Over Trump Immigration Policy: ‘This Is an Obscenity’
• Fox News Channel faces backlash from Hollywood creators
• ‘Modern Family’ co-creator hints at leaving Fox, slams Fox News' coverage of border practices
• New York to sue Trump administration for family separations
• Cuomo announces lawsuit against Trump administration, over detention of childreng
• Attorney General Mills calls for President Trump to end 'zero tolerance policy'
• Poliquin opposes separation of immigrant kids from parents
• Poliquin Says Immigrant Children Should 'Stay With Their Parents'
• Tearing children from their parents at the border goes against Jesus' teachings
• Mexico slams 'cruel and inhumane' treatment of kids separated from parents at U.S. border
• McCain rips Trump's family separation policy as affront to American decency
• Women religious leaders denounce "zero tolerance'' policy
• Ivanka encouraged Trump to act to stop separations, made calls to lawmakers
• Rep. Brian Mast's children threatened over Trump immigration policy; man arrested
• Our View: Not one second longer for family separation policy
• Cruelty at the Border Is Not Justice
• Fight over detained children intensifies

Where are they putting the kids?

• Photos: A Tent City for Detained Children in Texas
• Trump admin's 'tent cities' cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents
• US foster parents of separated immigrant children 'don't know how much worse it could be'
• Immigrant children ripped from families land in Michigan — here's how to help
• Bethany Christian Services providing foster homes for 81 children due to border crisis
• Babies torn from immigrant parents land in Michigan: 'They need diapers'
• These are the Texas shelters where immigrant children separated from parents can end up
• Nonprofit to Be Paid $458 Million by Trump Administration to Detain Migrant Children
• Five immigrant children separated from families at the border placed in S.C. foster care
• Immigrant babies, young children held in 'tender age' shelters, AP reports
• Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with a history of abuse and neglect
• Hundreds of children wait in large metal cages with foil blankets at Texas Border Patrol facility

What can the parents do about it?

• How will immigrant kids be reunited with parents? Trump officials have no clear plan
• Reunification: How separated immigrant children are reunited with their parents
• In Trump’s efficient U.S. family separation system, reunions take far longer
• No clear plan yet on how to reunite parents with children
• Immigrant parents are writing their contact information on children's clothing

What will happen to the kids?

The longer children remain in institutional settings, the greater their risk of depression, post-traumatic stress and other mental health problems.

• A Troubling Prognosis for Migrant Children in Detention: ‘The Earlier They’re Out, the Better’ 
• Migrant Children Heard Crying On Tape Are The Voices 'Left Out' Of Conversation
• Trump’s family separation policy is needlessly traumatizing children
• US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 migrant children
• Former ICE head: Separated kids may never see parents again
• Former ICE director: Family separations 'could be creating thousands of immigrant orphans'
• Concerns arise over welfare of separated children
• Separation of children from parents shown to have lifelong, detrimental effects, KU child welfare experts say
• Immigrant children at detention center cry for parents in heartbreaking audio

How they want to sucker you in.

• 7 activist groups supporting families at the border that need your help right now
• Madison County DHR differentiates foster care from crisis at border
• Couple raises more than $5 million on Facebook to reunite immigrant families

Fact Checking

• Fact-checking immigration spin on separating families and 1,500 ‘lost’ children
• FactCheck: Questions and answers on border detention of children
• Fact check: Did Obama administration separate families?
• Verify: Fact from fiction regarding families being separated at border

Whose calling it Child Abuse?

• Separating migrant children from parents at US border tantamount to child abuse

Frustrated child welfare workers appeal to state lawmakers for help

Frustrated child welfare workers appealed to state lawmakers for help during a briefing on Tuesday, where they shared their struggles — which include overwhelming caseloads.

"I love this job and I would never leave this job, but I will tell you this is the least amount of money that I've ever made and I get questioned for every little overtime that I need to do," said social worker Stacia Ohira.

More >> Frustrated child welfare workers appeal to state lawmakers for help

Distraught mum tells of 'living nightmare' she endured after social services investigated her for daughter's injury

A distraught mum has told of the “living nightmare” she was forced to endure when her daughter was injured at nursery – prompting a two-year safeguarding investigation and fight for justice – all while grieving for her brother, who was tragically killed.

Deanna Jacobs, from Stokenchurch, says she was made to feel like she was responsible for an unexplained injury her two-year-old daughter Nicole received while at a nursery called Positive Steps in the village in January 2016 – and even faced having her daughter taken off of her.

More >> Distraught mum tells of 'living nightmare' she endured after social services investigated her for daughter's injury

L.A. County children and family services employee accused of possessing child porn

A 54-year-old man who works as an adoption manager with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, police said Tuesday.

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Man accused of raping 8 year-old girl in foster care

A Silver Spring Twp. man is accused of raping and videotaping an 8 year-old girl while she was in his care. Police say Shane Mehaffie, 48, was supposed to be taking care of the girl, a foster child, while her foster mother was vacationing in the Dominican Republic last summer.

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A social worker from B.C. is calling for legislative change since discovering an Ontario children's aid society was allowed to disclose her identity after she'd reported a concern anonymously.

Despite giving individuals the option to report anonymously, there is nothing in provincial legislation that requires children's aid societies to protect the anonymity of people who report possible child abuse or neglect.

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Note:  I believe that anonymous reporting is one of the problems.  You should be able to face your accuser.

Report: Man found in cemetery with 5 underage girls he allegedly took from foster care

A 20-year-old man has been arrested after five foster children from Alabama were found in Mississippi.

The Sun Herald reported that Jordan Lamar McClain faces felony child abuse charges.

Police said McClain made contact with a 16-year-old girl in foster care in Mobile, Alabama, and the two planned to hang out. When McClain drove from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to pick her up, he also took four other girls, ages 11-14, from the foster home.

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VISAS DENIED FOR ADOPTED BABIES: 5 B.C. families stuck in Japan

Ryan Hoag spent his first Father’s Day separated from his wife and baby daughter by more than 7,500 kilometres and reams of red tape.

Hoag’s family is stuck in Toyko unable to return to their home in Coquitlam, B.C., because the federal government won’t issue a visa for the newly adopted infant.

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Lawsuit filed after foster child placed in sex offender's home

A lawsuit has been filed against employees of the Department of Child Safety after a 7-year-old was placed in a home where a registered sex offender was on the record living.

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Children placed at risk due to failings of Child and Family Agency, report finds

Some of Ireland’s most vulnerable children were potentially placed at risk due to major system failures within the Child and Family Agency (Tusla), an investigation has found.

The failings were found by the Health, Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) to have stemmed from a gap between national Tusla policy and what was actually happening on the ground.

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Government Boarding Schools Once Separated Native American Children From Families

In 1879, U.S. cavalry captain Richard Henry Pratt opened a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. But it wasn’t the kind of boarding school that rich parents send their children to. Rather, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School was a government-backed institution that forcibly separated Native American children from their parents in order to, as Pratt put it, “kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”

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The state took her foster license away. But the kids stayed with her. Why?

The state determined Natasha Shimp no longer was fit to hold a foster license. Yet, the Department of Child Safety left three small children in her care for 1½ years; one of them is still with her.

Since then, the former Tempe foster mother has been on a dogged quest to collect the thousands of dollars of foster payments she says she's entitled to for the children's care.

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State child abuse investigator charged with assaulting teen

A state child abuse and neglect investigator has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager.

The Lansing State Journal reports 34-year-old Daniel William Hulings of Bath Township is free on bond after being arraigned June 7 on seven counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in Clinton County District Court.

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• CPS investigator charged with CSC

Bomb threat at Miami Department of Children and Families

Police are investigating a bomb threat the the Department of Children and Families in Miami.

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Child abuse expert’s testimony refutes defense claim that CPR killed foster boy

A prosecution expert specializing in child abuse testified on Monday, refuting the main defense claim that CPR tragically killed a 2-year old foster boy.

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The separating the children from their parents at the border media circus.

I've just saved the links for a few days, and there are hundreds.  I will post the best ones and try to keep it from being overly repetitive.  And it will grow today.  

Members of Jeff Sessions' own church filed a formal complaint against the attorney general, accusing him of "child abuse," "immorality," and "racial discrimination" and the “dissemination of doctrines contrary to the established standards of doctrines” of the United Methodist Church.

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Whose to blame?

• Fact Check: Trump Administration Policy, Not Court Ruling or Legal Loophole, Is Forcing Family Separations at Border
• Administration denies responsibility for children separation
• Trump’s DOJ Contradicts His Claim That Democrats Are to Blame for Family Separation
• Why the Trump administration bears the blame for separating children from their families at the border
• How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families
• DHS Secretary Nielsen denies separation amounts to 'child abuse'

Whose against it?

• Sen. Susan Collins: Trump administration policy of separating families "traumatizing" children
• Families separated, children detained: What we know so far about Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy
• Several GOP lawmakers push Trump to stop the widely condemned separation of immigrant families
• Pressure mounts for Trump to address family separations at border
• Democrats Run to the Border to Decry Trump's Splitting of Families
• What Melania Trump, past first ladies have to say on 'zero tolerance' immigration policy
• U.N. human rights chief: U.S. policy on migrant children ‘unconscionable’
• Separating Children From Parents at Border Is ‘Un-American’ and ‘on All of Us,’ Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke Says
• Faith Leaders Oppose Trump's Immigration Policy Of Separating Children From Parents
• Teachers Condemn Family Separations at the Border as 'Child Abuse'
• Top pediatrician says separating migrant children from families is 'child abuse' after visit to facility
• Hickenlooper: Border policy is child abuse
• Judge Napolitano on Separating Children: “It Becomes a Form of Child Abuse”

Where are they putting the kids?

• "America is better than this": What a doctor saw in a Texas shelter for migrant children
• HHS releases videos of immigration detention facilities as Dems press for change
• Reporters Tour Texas Facility Where Migrant Children Are Detained
• Hundreds of children wait away from their parents in Texas Border Patrol facility
• Rare Look Inside A Child Migrant Shelter In El Cajon Amid Family Separation Outcry
• Trump Administration To Open Temporary Tent Shelter In Texas For Migrant Children
• PRO: Immigrant children are kept in safe facilities
• Report: There Are Already 98 Children Being Held in Trump's Newest Tent Encampment 

What will happen to the kids?

• 'It’s Deprivation': A Social Work Expert Explains the Long-Term Effects of Separating Children From Their Parents
• CON: Immigrant children may not get the correct treatment under the policy
• Kids can suffer permanent damage from border separations

What can the families do about it?

• This is the handout immigrant parents get before they're separated from their children
• MICHAEL AVENATTI OFFERS LEGAL SERVICES TO PARENTS OF CHILDREN TAKEN AT BORDER
• Democratic lawmakers visit with dads separated from children at detention center
• SPREAD ACROSS 2 COUNTRIES AND 3 STATES, A GUATEMALAN IMMIGRANT FAMILY WAITS FOR ICE TO DECIDE THEIR FUTURE

Like she's one to talk...

The other child tragedy: The tens of thousands of children the foster system has lost

The public has exploded in outrage at American immigration authorities' treatment of children in recent months, but meanwhile there are tens of thousands of other children who are unaccounted for in this country: the more than 60,000 foster children who have gone missing.

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The Irish Times view on child welfare: Insights into State failings

When the interests of service providers take precedence over the rights and needs of their clients, public trust is undermined. This divergence in priorities took dramatic form in the CervicalCheck scandal. But its effects on the lives of vulnerable adolescents, as outlined in successive reports by the Ombudsman for Children Niall Muldoon, have yet to be addressed.

Muldoon’s frustration over the sub-standard services being provided by the HSE to suicidal children comes though in his annual report. He itemises a shortfall in the number of consultant psychiatrists; the persistence of nine-to-five service contracts and an absence of out-of-hours emergency care in seven counties. Poor administration is not confined to medical care. An Oireachtas committee was told on Wednesday that psychiatric services in Wexford and Waterford would be withdrawn because of resignations arising from unsafe working conditions and outdated buildings.

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Study: Utah, other Republican-majority states give dads less custody time

Divorced dads in Republican-majority states receive significantly less custody time than those in Democrat-majority states and swing states, according to a new study.

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Plagued by problems, Ohio’s child support system is set for sweeping reforms. Here’s what would change.

Ohio’s child support system, plagued with an outdated formula used to calculate payments, $100 million a year in unpaid support and non-custodial parents who slip into the underground economy to avoid wage garnishments, may soon get its most sweeping reform in decades.

The impact of newly-passed legislation on families will vary based on factors such as income, health care coverage, child care arrangements and more.

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Parents' horror after man 'posing as social worker tries to kidnap their 10-month-old son'

A couple have warned other parents to be on guard after a man claiming to be a social worker allegedly tried to kidnap their 10-month-old son.

Sharnice Dwyer and Lee Hart said the man started staring through their home's windows in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, yesterday morning.

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The other missing children scandal: Thousands of lost American foster kids

The public exploded in outrage at the news in April: Federal agencies had lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children. These were kids who had shown up at the border unaccompanied, most of them from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, and were placed with sponsors. But the Office of Refugee Resettlement was unable to determine the current whereabouts of 1,475 of the 7,635 children who had been placed last year. Members of Congress said the children had been thrown to the wolves; they held rallies. Twitter groaned under the anger of thousands of users who expressed shock that this had been allowed to happen, many of them mistakenly noting that these kids had been taken from their parents.

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Family court judges face the wrath of unhappy litigants and legislators

Family court judges in Connecticut have come under attack in recent years by unhappy litigants, some of whom have resorted to threats of violence and anti-semitic and racist Internet posts.

The 25 to 30 judges who preside each year over 50,000 cases, including divorces and child custody/visitation disputes, have also faced intense scrutiny by lawmakers during confirmation hearings, despite steps Judicial Branch leaders say they've taken to reduce costs, conflict and delays in family court cases.

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Two foster children speak out about leaving home they love

That routine could change Friday, when a Grand Traverse Band Tribal Court judge could decide to move the children, who are part Native American, into a foster home with a tribal member they've met twice.

If the girls have their say they'll stay put, with Tim and Anne Donn, who have been their foster parents for the past nine years.

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Seal of confession more important than reporting child abuse: Priest

Priests shouldn’t be forced break the seal of confession to report instances of child sexual abuse, according to Sydney priest Michael Whelan.

Whelan told the ABC the government’s decision to order the Catholic Church to lift the veil of secrecy applied to church-goers and their priests was in conflict with the church’s religious principles.

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