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Shattering Your Child Welfare Delusions Since 2007


Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Foster Children Do Better At Home

Foster Children Do Better At Home
By : Scott Wasserman

If you love a child in need of care, you should take note of a new study on the long term results of foster care.

Many foster families provide excellent care. Nonetheless, a new study concludes that children on the margins of needing intervention tend to have better outcomes when they remain at home, especially for older children. Children who are removed from their homes face higher delinquency rates, teen birth rates and lower earnings.

These results add credence to recent efforts to keep children in their own families. Even when their families are marginal, their children fare better in their own home instead of in foster homes.

Over 2 million children are investigated for abuse and neglect in the United States each year. About half of those are found to have been abused. Approximately 10 percent of the abused children are removed from their families.

Currently over 500,000 children reside in foster homes. About 60 percent of those return home; 15 percent are adopted; and the remainder age out of the system when they turn 18. The average amount of time spent in foster care is about two years.

Abused children are three times more likely to die in childhood, with about 1,400 child deaths each year attributed to child abuse. Children withdrawn from their families are more likely to commit crimes, drop out of school, join welfare, abuse drugs and alcohol, and become homeless.

Nearly 20 percent of young prison inmates and 28 percent of homeless individuals spent some of their youth in the foster system. Of children who turn 18 years old while in the system, two thirds of the boys and half of the girls had a history of delinquency.

Federal and state laws encourage preserving children in their own families. Before removing a child from a family home, the state must prove that reasonable efforts to prevent the removal were tried and failed. They also must prove that leaving the child in the family's home would be contrary to the child's welfare.

However, in practice many children are removed from their family homes anyway.

The research by MIT economics professor Joseph J. Doyle studied 15,000 children who had been reported for abuse and neglect. The study did not include children who were subject to drug use or severe physical or sexual abuse. Those children would have required removal from their families regardless of its trauma. For the remainder of the children, the ones who stayed in their own families did better in their adult lives than the children placed in foster care.

We help our clients recover their children from foster care by lobbying the social service agencies before we get to court. We have found that intense out of court advocacy succeeds better than courtroom tactics alone. Combining sophisticated advocacy both in and out of court helps children avoid the long term negatives associated with the child welfare system.

We have also found success in preventing foster care in the first place by using guardianships and other private actions.

If you need to rescue a child from foster care, you need to act promptly. Contact an attorney licensed in the court that has jurisdiction over custody of your child.
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Copyright 2007 Scott Wasserman

Scott Wasserman is a graduate of Harvard Law School with more than 22 years of legal experience. His law practice focuses entirely on the rights of children and the adults who love them. He may be reached through his web site at www.yourchild1st.com

CPS safety plan put child in danger, police say

An article from the Seattle Times.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003814038_abuse31m.html

It has become my duty to exploit stuff like this. Needs to be done to prove my point. CPS is not only corrupt but stupid and irrisponsible as well. The system needs to be changed. It needs to be fixed. It needs to protect and provide.

And you people need to open your eyes. This is the sort of thing that happens when CPS gets involved. http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6861915



Too many children are ending up dead or worse just like little Danielle Holt,

Can you say "Lab Rat?"

Here is a piece I found about the Drugging of Foster Children. It comes from the Citizens Commission on Human Rights website, from an organization which investigates and Exposes Psychiatric Human Rights Abuses. Imagine that.

http://www.cchr.org/files/15466/Foster%20Care%20Child%20Protective%20Services.pdf

And always remember, If you can't afford thousands for a good lawyer, this could easily be your kid.

Monday, July 30, 2007

Police say man abused two foster kids

http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/185302.html

Texas Children Being Housed At CPS Offices

http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_129185655.html

Child Protective Services - Inside Job?

statistically Child Protective Services is the most dangerous people to give children to. Children are 8 to 11 times more likely to be abused in Foster Care then they are in their own homes.

Perhaps Drug Rehab Slipped Her Mind?

It's not just a problem in America. Self-Righteous Hypocrates are everywhere!

Perhaps Drug Rehab Slipped Her Mind?
by Rod MacTaggart


An Australian member of parliament has called for the children of drug addicts to be permanently removed from their parents and offered for adoption. Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop wants to see adoption, rather than fostering, used to separate children from parents who are battling addiction. Excuse me, but has the honorable member completely forgotten about successful drug rehab programs?

Ms. Bishop, who is currently chairing an Australian parliamentary inquiry into the impact of illicit drug use on families, told the Australian Broadcasting Company's Four Corners program that the current system is skewed towards the interests of drug-using parents, and not their children. She said there are hundreds of parents who are desperate to adopt children and give them love and good homes, but “there is this ‘biology first’ principle.”

By ignoring that successful drug rehab can keep a family together, and tossing “this biology first principle” on the trash heap, Ms. Bishop nullifies both the proven breakthroughs in the science of drug rehab, as well as one of the most primal urges of human history and experience – the urge for one’s own biological parents, and children.

Ms. Bishop’s detractors have been quick to speak up. Brisbane Youth Service spokeswoman Amanda Davies said there is no evidence that all people that use drugs are unable to parent their children. And Queensland Council of Social Service president Karyn Walsh said there is strong evidence that forced removals cause children long-term harm. “You can't just go removing children simply because their parents have a drug addiction,” she said. “Children need to know their parents, and not all parents who have a drug addiction are bad parents, or incapable of parenting.”

Victorian Child Safety Commissioner Bernie Geary put it best when he said, “There is nothing in my experience worse than a child who’s sentenced to be without their parents for the rest of their lives. Children are better off with families in the long run.”

And let’s not forget the ultimate solution: if the parents do a successful drug rehab program that gets down to the bottom of why they’re taking drugs and resolves those issues, they won’t be addicts.
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http://www.drugrehabreferral.com/content/drug_rehab
successful drug rehab program

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

New Study Opens Eyes on the Relative Quality of Foster Care

New Study Opens Eyes on the Relative Quality of Foster Care
By Ed Bagley

Apparently the news is in on the contentious issue of whether children are better left at home or put in foster care.

The largest study on the subject (15,000+ kids from 1990 to 2002) says children whose families are investigated for abuse or neglect are likely to do better in life if they stay with their families than if they go into foster care.

The USA Today (7-3-07) reported that kids who stayed with their families were less likely to become juvenile delinquents or teen mothers and more likely to hold jobs as young adults, according to the study by Joseph Doyle, who studies social policy as an economics professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

A sampling of the study results showed:

Only 14% of young adults were arrested at least once when staying at home and 44% were arrested when going to foster care.

Only 33% became teen mothers when staying at home and 56% became mothers when going to foster care.

At least 33% held a job for at least 3 months when staying at home and only 20% held a job for at least 3 months when going to foster care.

"The size of the effects surprised me, because all the children come from tough families," Doyle said. The National Science Foundation funded the study.

Studies, including those by Mark Courtney while at the University of Chicago's Chapin Hall Center, show that the 500,000 children in U. S. foster care are more likely than other kids to drop out of school, commit crimes, abuse drugs and become teen parents.

I personally know two foster children who became very successful in life as adults.

I have never cared for the foster care program because I believe far too many foster parents are in it for the money and not for the tremendous responsibility they accept. I believe adoption sends a much different message than being a foster parent.
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Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley

Ed Bagley is the Author of Ed Bagley's Blog which he Publishes with Original Articles on Current and Past Events, including Analysis and Commentary on Lessons in Life, Movies, Sports, Internet Marketing, Jobs and Careers that are intended to Delight, Inform, Educate and Motivate Readers. Visit Ed at . . .

http://www.edbagleyblog.com/MovieReviewArticles.html
http://www.edbagleyblog.com/LessonsinLifeArticles.html

Friday, July 06, 2007

Criminal Background Check Increased for Foster Parents

Criminal Background Check Increased for Foster Parents
By : Bryan Nash

Criminal background check of greater depth will now be required of new Minnesota foster parents and of those renewing their licenses. One of the requisites includes fingerprints to be entered into a national database and will be submitted for a larger amount of criminal background checks. The new proposal was a $1.2 million-a-year overhaul helping to catch applicants slipping through cracks in the system.

Background check in Minnesota will be done at a state level, which will hopefully prevent sexual offenders preying on society’s most vulnerable children through exploiting blind spots in the system. In Wisconsin we see similar changes and the changes comply with a national shift with new federal standards.

A good example of excluding foster parents with a criminal record by performing criminal background checks is foster parent Perry Wayne Pfitzer. He was charged with sexually abusing his two foster daughters, ages 4 and 6, last summer in his home. Had a proper criminal background check been performed, records would have revealed that he had a 1982 conviction of indecent exposure “involving a minor” in a Blaine department store.

However, one of the problems involved in Pfitzer’s background check was that his misdemeanor was so old that it didn’t show up on his record. This is because Minnesota laws make it hard to not grant a license on a misdemeanor so old.

Anoka County’s director of community social services and mental health states that this will clearly give greater breadth to the background checks. He states that the proposal was meant to catch the blind spots and there are definitely blind spots.

The proposed bill, under the changes proposed by Tim Pawlenty, Gov. of Minnesota, would do criminal background check not only in the area of residence for the applicant, however, in the surrounding areas as well. Minnesota laws currently do not check in surrounding areas and state wide. Also, new applicants for foster care and those renewing license will be required to undergo fingerprint checks which would be compared to a national database.

The deeper check routine may in fact help catch molesters slipping through the cracks of the foster care system. An estimated $1.3 million dollars will be spent for Minnesota’s system overhaul. As the assistant commissioner for operations in Minnesota’s Department of Human Services puts it “it’s just simply a better way to do it.”
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Bryan Nash Background Check

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Chris & HIS Daughters



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Another victim of legalized kidnapping. Her mother's comments to the video:

This is my very first video. I made it for my daughter and used the song, "In My Daughters Eyes", by Martina McBride. I made this in hopes of bringing to light a national travesty with the DCF/CPS (Department of Children and Families/Child Protective Services)...I hope this sheds some light on the problems that happen each day within this "government sanctioned" agency and how they have the power to rip apart a family with false allegations and the injustice they perform against "Free" citizens of the US...Please Comment... (more)

Bettendorf Family Fights CPS



The Bettendorf Family was told by CPS they would be able to adopt a sibling group of five children. CPS later changed their mind and adopted out one of the siblings to a different family.

Friday, June 22, 2007

For Marcus Fiesel, 2003-2006. A boy who loved flowers.



From the photographs, Marcus Fiesel looked happy, a child full of mischief.
But Marcus' life was anything but idyllic away from the camera's lens.
Six days after the boy's foster parents were hauled off to jail, charged with killing him in a crime so chilling it stunned the region, the clearest picture yet of the 3-year-old is emerging.
At age 1, he lived in a flea-infested home that reeked of mold and feces.
More than once, police had come to the house when Marcus' mother, Donna Trevino, called to complain that her boyfriend was hitting her or threatening to.
On one visit, the house smelled so bad that police asked Trevino where the animals were.
There weren't any, she told them.
Police were so concerned about the mass of flea bites covering the arms and legs of Marcus' 9-year-old brother, Michael, that they strongly suggested the family move.
By the time Marcus was 2, police were still responding to domestic problems at his mother's home. During a visit on Sept. 29, 2005, they found severe bruising on Marcus' left buttock.
Police weren't the only ones worried.
Child welfare workers were investigating complaints from Trevino about physical abuse, too, reports show.
As he approached his third birthday, a foster family in Clermont County offered Marcus a safe, new life away from the turmoil with his mom.
That's not how things turned out.
Last week, Liz and David Carroll Jr. were accused of pinning the small boy's arms behind his back, wrapping him in a blanket and encasing his slight form in tape. They wrapped him like a mummy in a small 5-by-7-foot closet with a fan and took off for a family reunion in Kentucky, police say. The temperature was in the high 80s and low 90s.
He was dead when they returned.
In life, Marcus hardly had a chance.
In death, he captivated the hearts of thousands of strangers.
In death, he's changing the way the state handles foster-care placements.
In death, a park will be named after him.
HIS SMILE IS GONE
The sparkle in Marcus' eyes was extinguished sometime during the first weekend in August, authorities say.
Left alone in the closet over two days, Marcus' cries turned to whimpers, his breathing grew shallow, he closed his eyes and finally died, authorities say.
To look back at the life of Marcus is to look at a life of contrasts.
He was born to a mother who ran away from home as a young teenager.
Born Donna Fiesel, Trevino married young. She's had three children by three different men.
None of the fathers has anything to do with their children.
From South Carolina, it's unclear how or why she ended up in Middletown just a few years ago.
Marcus is the second of the three kids. At the time of his death, he had the developmental skills of a youngster half his age.
Still, he had every bit the spirit of a 3-year-old.
He loved Bob the Builder. He loved bubbles. His favorite pillow had pink and white stripes.
Trevino's friends say Marcus was autistic.
Before living with the Carrolls, he was enrolled in a school for special needs children.
Marcus also loved flowers.
Neighbor Tammy Rosenbaum brought three tulips bulbs to Marcus' Grime Street home this year. The family planted them near the back porch.
Rosenbaum remembered that Marcus would reach his hand through the fence, snake it through the bushes and dutifully pluck the heads off the tulips to give his mother.
Other times he would press his face against the fence so Rosenbaum's miniature pinscher Smokey could cover his face with wet kisses.
"He was just so sweet," said Rosenbaum, who often caught Marcus peering at her from his bedroom window only to duck when their eyes met or she waved to him. "He was just an awesome little guy."

Latest update 8/10/07 http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=6890935

DCF: Jeb Bush's Legacy - 9c - Child Abuse



Anyone can call and you can lose your children. For this woman, the refrigerator broke and the heat went out, the landlord was there when DCF arrived and said the problem would be corrected, but they took her children away because they said her son was in an "unhealthy environment." Her eighteen month old child was placed in 3 different foster homes, suffered hypothermia, caught chicken pox, bite marks, cigarette burns, and then struck by foster parent - at only 18 months old. There are hundreds of people this is happening to, and the children are suffereing.

Why are these children dying?

They are the stories no one wants to hear -- children, abused and neglected, some to the point of death.Many of them must leave their families to go into shelters or foster care. Often these children leave their homes with only a garbage bag to hold their clothes and favorite toys, the most are routinely tossed from one temporary placement to another, often ten or twenty times during their most formative, vulnerable years.This is the continuing saga of crimes against Foster children. Children are dying, inside and out...

This page is in memory of children died of neglect or abuse while under the care of the social service agencies! Many died suspiciously or from neglect. Most of their lives and deaths went unnoticed. Until now. But you likely never heard of them. The deaths of these children -- and what government agencies did or didn't do to save their lives -- Even when they die, their stories are rarely told. Those Children Were Failed by the System ! Please, don't wait for new name on this page. http://suncanaa.com/

Children in USA are being kidnapped

The Protectors

I CAN'T SLEEP!

It's 1:30am & all I hear is the tick tock from the clock
thinking about all the lies of Linda Mills is a crock.
Alone I sit & write
Living without my kids, what a fright.
It is way too quiet
Alone on this no kid diet.
I miss them everyday
Will I ever again get to see them play?
I have yet to really cry
Without them everyday I die.
My kids are my soal
Getting them back is my goal.

here is a not so nice one, I am ANGRY!

I write in pain
For CPS' gain
Because of Linda's lies
Nice things she buys.
$2000 every child, cash
Her face I want to smash!
You F&*(g B&*(
Because you took my kidsyou are rich.
I now have no job
Not only the parents you rob
With pain, my heart does throb.
How you sleep at night I do not know
After years of this you must be a pro
God knows you reep what you soe!

I will update all of you after court tonight. Keep me in your
prayers, court is today at 1:30 California time.

Mom till death

CIVIL RIGHTS, KIDNAPPERS, & BABY STEALERS REGISTRY

A great idea. Must name names!

~~~permission given to pass & repost ANYWHERE, except a public bathroom in a gas
station :)

~ WHO AIDED AND ABETTED IN STEALING YOUR CHILDREN? ~




WHO CONSPIRED TO KIDNAP YOUR CHILD?




<<<<< WHO VIOLATED YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS>>>>>>>>>>>






WHO DIDNT HAVE A WARRANT TO TAKE YOUR CHILD(REN)?




WHO HAS WITNESSED THE ABUSE OR NEGLECT OF YOUR CHILD, AND NOT REPORTED IT, HAS
REQUIRED BY MANDATORY CHILD ABUSE LAWS? WHILE YOUR CHILD IS IN THE CARE OF
ANOTHER.




WHAT BAD SOCIAL WRECKER DID YOU HAVE?






THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO LET THEIR " DIRTY LITTLE SECRET BE KNOW"


I AM COMPOSING A LIST, ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS,


INCLUDE THEIR
NAME


JOB TITLE


STATE


YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME OR EMAIL, ALL INFO PERTAINING TO YOU & YOUR
PERSONAL CASE WILL NOT BE INCLUDED.


JUST HAS THEY DO US, OUR RECORDS ARE CONFIDENTIAL TOO, NO HEARINGS FOR THEM, WE
WILL GIVE OUR OPINIONS ONLY. HAS WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THEM.




WHEN THIS LIST IS COMPLETE, I AM COPYING IT, NO MATTER HOW LONG IT IS AND HOW
MANY PERPETRATORS ARE ON IT, & SENDING IT TO EVERY STATES CAPITOL NEWSPAPERS, TO
EVERY GOVERNOR, EVERY CPS AGENCY, ( THEY WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR COPIES,
THOUGH :)


& EVERY SOCIAL WORKERS LICENSCING BOARD, SO BE HEARD, SPEAK IT, TELL THE TRUTH.
LETS SEE HOW THEY LIKE BEING PUT ON THE





HERE IS MINE






..> KNOXVILLE, TN. REFEREE IRENE B. JOSEPH
KNOXVILLE, TN. JUDGE TIM IRWIN
KNOXVILLE, TN. STACEY TURPIN (CRIPPEN) JUVENILE CASE MANAGER
KNOXVILLE, TN. ATTORNEY JOSEPH FRANCIS DELLA-RODOLFA
COURT APPOINTED GUARDIAN AD LITEM
KNOXVILLE, TN. CHILDREN SERVICES WORKER BIANCA HUBBARD
KNOXVILLLE, TN. CHILDRENS SERVICES SUPERVISOR FREDA DILLS
KNOXVILLE, TN. ATTORNEY FOR FATHER CHARLES CHILDS

Jadyn & Joey



A vid made for two children taken away from a loving mother by Lamar County DFCS. What has happened to the justice system? God save our children.

I hope posting this helps.

The Nervous CPS Worker

This CPS worker, Katie Corbitt, that was instrumental in splitting up the siblings we were planning to adopt. We have 4 of the 5 siblings - the other sibling was adopted out to another family even though CPS told us we could have her.

Guess what

It Could Happen To You