Not that anyone’s paying attention, but . . . today, Texas CPS “non-suited” three more of the FLDS kids that it illegally confiscated back in April. It’s become almost a daily ritual, tallying up the latest non-suits. At this rate, with roughly 200 kids to go, nearly all of those remaining could be free by Christmas. Wouldn’t that be nice, nine months after Texas official terrorist organization first broke into the YFZ Ranch on the strength of a fraudulent search warrant.
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PRESS RELEASE **PRESS RELEASE** PRESS RELEASE** PRESS RELEASE
Critical Reform Bill Promises New Help for Children in Foster Care
Last update: 2:17 p.m. EDT Sept. 18, 2008
WASHINGTON, Sept 18, 2008 /****PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/**** — The U.S. House of Representatives today approved critical legislation that promises to improve the American foster care system and make a difference in the lives of vulnerable children and youth across the country. H.R. 6893 builds on two bills that Congress acted on earlier this year: H.R.6307, a bill the House unanimously passed earlier this summer and S. 3038, a bill the Senate Finance Committee passed on September 10, 2008.
If approved, the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 would invest in initiatives to help move children safely — and permanently — out of foster care.
In particular, the bill would strengthen support for family relatives who care for abused and neglected children outside of the formal foster care system; give American Indian tribes the same access to federal child welfare funding that states currently receive; and provide opportunities for additional assistance to older youth who are aging out of the system.
The legislation addresses issues critical to Casey Family Programs’ ambitious 2020 Strategy to improve foster care in America by:
— Safely reducing the number of children in out-of-home care by 50 percent over the next 12 years;
— Reinvesting savings from reductions to strengthen child welfare systems;
— And improving education, employment and mental health services for those in foster care.
“I appreciate all of the members of Congress who have made it a priority this year to provide better opportunities and a brighter future for the more than 500,000 children in our nation’s foster care system,” said William C. Bell, president and chief executive officer of Casey Family Programs. “We must ensure that all of our children have the best chance possible to succeed in the future.
This legislation marks an important step toward making Casey Family Programs’ 2020 Strategy a reality for those who need it most — the children in our foster care system.”
The Fostering Connections act is the most important funding reform of the foster care system in more than a decade. It creates a federally subsidized guardianship program and grants American Indian tribes direct access to Title IV-E, two 2020 strategies that Casey has advocated on Capitol Hill and in position papers released earlier this year.
Congress has often discussed the need to reform the major funding source of foster care, Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, but opted instead for more incremental changes. The latest vote marks a significant shift in congressional attitudes and priorities in child welfare legislation. Casey applauds this focus.
About Casey Family Programs
Casey Family Programs is the largest national foundation whose sole mission is to provide and improve — and ultimately prevent the need for — foster care. The foundation draws on over 40 years of experience and expert research and analysis to improve the lives of children and youth in foster care in two important ways: by providing direct services and support to foster families, and by promoting improvements in child welfare practice and policy. The Seattle-based foundation was established in 1966 by UPS founder Jim Casey, and has a current endowment of more than $2.2 billion.
For more information, contact Casey Family Programs at info@casey.org or 1300 Dexter Avenue North, Floor 3, Seattle, WA 98109. Visit our Web site at http://www.casey.org.
SOURCE Casey Family Programs
http://www.casey.org
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Jeny….
Please stop re-posting it.
The fact that they have not come back makes me think that Kurt has banned them.
Thanks.
Chai
Chai Tea { 09.21.08 at 9:05 pm } Jeny….
Please stop re-posting it.
The fact that they have not come back makes me think that Kurt has banned them.
Thanks.
Chai
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The fact that Kurt has edited EVERY post I’ve made this afternoon, while leaving mul’s vile personal attack against me undisturbed and intact FOR THREE DAYS is very much an affront to me. Especially since he didn’t even bother to answer/acknowlege my e-mail.
IF he banned mul, he should have gone back and removed that post and any reference to it.
The fact that he let it stand–a personal attack using the most disgusting words speaks volumes to me about Kurt.
Apparently he’s not opposed to such vile personal attacks like that against his readers, but he IS opposed to Senator Grassley’s PRESS RELEASE in favor of changes to foste care being printed in full on his blog.
PRESS RELEASES are MEANT TO BE REPEATED IN FULL ON THE WEB.
I rather doubt you’d appreciate a post like that against you standing for THREE DAYS–ignored by the webmaster (no answer to either of my e-mails from Kurt).
Meanwhile your civilized posts were butchered almost immediately.
Put yourself in my shoes.
I am tired of being censored, while vulgarity and personal attacks remain.
It’s just wrong.
So I guess Wendy Osborne is going to get away with manslaughter. Nice.
Joey { 09.21.08 at 9:22 pm } So I guess Wendy Osborne is going to get away with manslaughter. Nice.
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It would certainly appear she is getting the kid-gloves, Rozita Swinton CPS touch-me-not treatment, even though both have comitted crimes against children. One more egregious than the other.
Yes, Wendy Osborne is going to get away with killing Jessica Scovil. Her only punishment? Supposedly “feelings of guilt” for life. Big-dammm-deal.
Best,
Jeny
204 Joey { 09.21.08 at 9:22 pm } So I guess Wendy Osborne is going to get away with manslaughter. Nice.
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Apparently so.
DAY FOUR—Post 189 containing a personal attack using vile names still stands, while every other post I’ve made has been deleted by Kurt.
So–what is it Kurt? Do the words in 189 fly?
Why won’t you remove the INAPPROPRIATE personal attack against me in post #189 in THIS thread?
Please advise.
I’m not a reader here; I found this site while looking for an update on the murders of the Sueppel children in Iowa City, IA. I’m an adoptive parent of two Korean teens who is strongly in favor of adoption reform, domestic and international.
There are certainly plenty of cases of adoptive parent abuse, including murder, of adoptive children. The Sueppel case is one of the most horrific. However, I’d like to make a small correction to the note in comment 97:
“http://www.fixcas.com/parody/notes.htm
ALL OF THESE CHILDREN died while in State Custody after being removed from their parents:
This page is in memory of children who died after social service agencies removed them from the care of their parents, placing them with fosters, adopters, group homes, or psychiatric facilities.”
The page linked does not include the statement that the children listed were in state custody at the time of their deaths, only that they were in the custody of other than their genetic parents; I think that statement was included in error.
The Sueppel children, who were legally adopted as infants, were in the custody of the adoptive father who murdered them, not a state agency, which of course raises an entirely different subject: the need for adoption reform. That, in my opinion, is an equally-needed discussion.
I am the one and only, no tag team, no duplicates, just plain old me!
Such one sided views on this blog, such a shame that ALL the views of BOTH sides can’t be given, accepted, and understood. Just aparently one side is only accepted.
Maybe not agreed with but with all of us smart intellegnt people just an understanding of there are two sides to every view. That is how life is.
such a shame that ALL the views of BOTH sides can’t be given, accepted,
It’s impossible, intellectually, to accept ALL the views of BOTH sides. But opposing views are not censored here, so don’t be such a whiner.
D’ville, I don’t think they are one sided at all. We can disagree and often do, but we don’t resort to the vile name calling that happened earlier. Thank goodness that Kurt finally cleaned it up.
SKK…ok…so I guess you don’t have an explanation about the imminent danger that Merrianne was allegedly in that was the basis for her removal from a very safe, secure home and relationship.
Only goes to show that the whole intent of removing Merrianne was to punish her parents and had nothing to do with her safety. Well, in punishing her parents for their lack of cooperation, you have tortured and traumatized this young woman.
Nice.
And we wonder why the FLDS don’t trust the state? I don’t blame them.
For most of Adrianna Swain’s 2 1/2 years, the toddler has been in foster care, a family friend confirmed Thursday.
The child was taken from her parents when she suffered a broken arm at the age of 3 months, said Brenda Tatum, a friend of Adrianna’s mother, Amanda Swain. Tatum said the child was recently returned to her Marietta parents.
Adrianna Swain had just recently been returned to her parents.On Wednesday, Swain and Flores-Amador, both 25, were charged with child cruelty after the toddler was rushed to surgery for multiple internal and external injuries. She remains in critical condition at Children’s Health Care of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.
Tom Rawlings, the state’s child advocate, says his office plans to conduct an independent review of the case.
“We will be pulling records and interviewing individuals who were managing this child’s case,” he said, adding that his office’s aim is not to pass judgment but to see “how the practices and policies in this case may have affected the outcome.”
Child advocates say this is a case where the system may have failed to adequately protect Adrianna, and her 1-year-old brother, who remained in the couple’s home until this week.
“Sources close to this case note that the safeguards of the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), the citizen’s review panel and the guardian ad litem — all of whom had first-hand information on this case and recommended that the child not be returned home — were all ignored by the court,” said Julie Bolen, a former CASA worker in Cobb. “If juvenile court proceedings were open to the public, judges and case workers might be more careful about sending children home to unsafe environments, in spite of compelling evidence that they will be in danger.”
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Ok, here is a little different treatment for a “bith parent” vs the case discussed above. Different, yes, fair, no.
BUT this is not the only case where the system failed, but in this case and many others, the system failed because THE CHILD WAS RETURNED!
Thoughts?
to continue my thought, treatments are not fair, and it can happen both with “birth parents” and “foster parents” but the bottom line is the system is failing the children weather they are returned to foster care or back to their parents. So what is our solution?
One solution is not to over populate a system with children who have no business in foster care, i.e., FLDS children, for example.
Seriously – it’s obvious the problem in both scenarios has lain with the judges. In all 3 cases, the FLDS, Taco’s, and Adrianna’s, the judges all evidenced prejudice or refused to listen to the very people that had accurate information.
The problem seems to be the judges.
I am disappointed at the l
I am disappointed at the lack of intellectual discourse on this blog.
Then how about contributing to the conversations here?
To call anything here a “conversation” is an injustice to the definition of conversation.
Most, but not all, of what you have here are the half-baked, not well thought out, ideas of a self-appointed “chosen few” whose ignorance, bias and closed-mindedness knows no practical bounds.
To summarize, most of the hard core contributors here are dimwits beyond any hope of intellectual salvation.
There are exceptions to this generalization and I ask those of you who qualify in that regard, “How can you have the patience to continue to discuss these topics with these most moronic of morons?!?”
You truly are just wasting your time; they lack the intellectual capacity to comprehend at any significant level.
Right back atchya, beni.
Actually, beni, having just finished the thread for the first time, I’m not sure which side you’re on. I can see pretty strong opinions on opposite sides here, which ones are you calling morons?
lol…
To all of you who care about children just think about it a 8 month old baby (1 day shy 9of being 9 months old) is dead. If you want to know more details about her and why she was removied from her PARENTS the mother who carried her for 9 months the father that couldn’t wait for her to be born all you have to do is Google Jessica Scovil and you will get all the information you need. I know more than most and I can tell you that if this babies mother had left her in that van she would be in jail because she has a mental illness and that does not make her a bad mother by any means. All this grandmother would like to see is Justice for Jessica. I do not beleive that Wendy ment to kill Jessica but there is no way around the fact that she did neglect Jessica and Jessica’s parents had to plan a furnal instead of her first birthday party. Which is coming up soon. This is not foster parent vers birth parent this is or should be about Justice for Jessica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m an adoptive mother of 2 sibling boys. My husband and I took these boys into our home at the ages of 8 and 10. They had been in the foster care system as legaly free to adopt children for 3 years by then. These poor kids had been through hell with their birth parents. Everything from verbal abuse, drug exposure, lack of food, lack of proper supervision, to physical abuse. One of my son’s was locked in a closet for hours at a time. You cannot convice me that their parents were the right people to take care of them. We are doing this because we feel we need to be there to help these kids finally have a future and a hope for tomorrow. We want to show them what a family should be like, and how a family loves and cares for each other. We both love these boys, as if they were our own birth children. I will do anything to protect them. We do receive a stipin to help offset the expenses of these kids. My boys are allergic to wheat, peanuts and fish so we have to buy special foods. Becuase of the nature of their trama, and the amount of loss they have endured we attend multipule doctors and therapy appointments each week. At the end of the month the little bitty $700 a month (total not for each kid) is barely enough to cover their specail needs for food, therapy and other non-covered nessesary items. There is little to no profit to be made in the foster care nor foster-adopt system. Becase of their schedules with appointments and school I have found it a lot easier to not be working right now. It has also facialitated our bonding process, which has been a diffcult process all considering. No one can really prepare you for a child that has not grown emotionaly past the age of two. I’m certain very few birth mothers have ever seen their eight year olds throw a horifically violent two year old fit on a regular basis. No one can prepare you for the manipulation and lies that most removed children tell and re-tell. They have been fourced to become professional liers as a means to surive with their birth parents. My oldest kid can look and sound like the perfect child, but none of it is real to him, and none of it is truth. To be honest the amount of additional stress a foster or foster-adopt child can bring into a home is nothing like that of a birth child. With the little bitty baby you carried for 9 months, cooed and gooed at, rocked, sang to, and taught to choose foods, clothing, to share, and that you will always be there, even when you are behind a blanket. These are all things my children missed out on all of that stuff critical to the atachament and mental well being of a child. When they were babies, 1, 2, 3 and 4, no one held them when they cried, no one rocked them to sleep, or read Good Night Moon over and over again, or palyed peek-a-boo, or even lovingly bathed and lotioned. And yes before you respond, I know this for a fact. They missed that care, that bond, that love every mother should provide and not all birth moms do. Yes there should be justice for baby Jessica, it is a true tradedy. But please don’t go around thinking social services is to blame, or that the foster mom did not care about the child. Social Services has an obligation to look into every report, even the stupid and bogus ones. A foster mom has an obligation to care for a child, some fail at this, and should not be foster parents. There was in deed a reason baby Jessica was taken away, and a reason she should have been returned. It is really sad that this happened at all but please do not attack all birth or all foster parents. In this world were we all see tragities, pain and suffering, let your family be a place of love and hope, no matter how you choose to do it. Show your children, show all children, what love and family is all about. I morn for baby Jessica’s family, and would never wish such an awful thing to happen to ayone’s child and I truly belive that responsible foster mother morns also. Having taken on the job of a foster and adoptive parent, I’m certain she felt and feels absoultly terrible about it. I’m certain it will haunt her for the rest of her life, as she is the one ultimently responsible for that poor baby’s death. How very sad indeed.
There was in deed a reason baby Jessica was taken away
While there are some extreme cases such as you mention, the
responsible foster mother
If that’s your idea of “responsible” behavior, then please send the children living with you away and don’t take any more in.
But please don’t go around thinking social services is to blame
Why not? They are to blame.
There was in deed a reason baby Jessica was taken away
How are you so sure? The only reason I’ve read was vague accusations of “failure to bond”.
Didn’t complete my sentence.
While there are some extreme cases such as you mention, the
… reality is that is not true all the time. I’ve seen kids taken away for the flimsiest of pretexts. Fake claims of sexual abuse. Twisting playground injuries into being beaten by parents. And so on.
Jennifer wake up and smell the roses. Those kids are not lying to you. They want to be with their real parents, and they will spend the rest of the lives trying to figure out why CPS kidnapped them from their parents and told lies about them. They will spend the rest of the lives trying to figure out why society branded them with the permanent label of “adoptee.”
Jennifer; What you describe is child abuse. Those children should have been taken out of the home. However, the handful of cases of underage marrages involving the FLDS does not even began to constitute child abuse.
I know to be a fact that baby Jessica had a loving mother whoes only crime was to ask for help when she needed it. She read to her baby from the time she found out she was carring her. The reason gave was not bonding with baby. Someone called that in. The fact that the mother has a mental illness along with that was all that was needed to take baby Jessica from a family that did all those thing with her that a baby needs and should have. I don’t blame the whole foster care system or al of the Social Services; but this foster mother and this Social Services failed Jessica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And her whole family.
CPS is the same all over- too busy making money to really care or correctly look into each case individualy. There is nothing so heart wrenching as having a CPS agent attack you. THIS is one experience I had. I just had a baby girl that doctors predicted would never be normal. After birth she quit breathing; her doctor had to do CPR on her. After He told me that one of her ribs had been broken. Every month I had to take her to a specialist. When she was about three months old, I took her to her regular appointment with this specialist. That specialist came in all mad, and was very cold to me. After a while a CPS agent came to talk to me. I had no Idea what this was about. She started asking “Do you shake your baby? Have you ever got mad at your child?’ and a load of other questions that I answered No. She shot question after question at me, then Finally after a long time said that I couldn’t take my baby home because she had a broken bone. After she left I bawled and called my husband and bawled at him what to do. He said tell them the doctor had broken the baby’s rib and give them the number to call him. This I did but they would not call or believe me until my husband called our doctor and had him call the specialist and talk to her. I tell you that ALL parents are guilty until proven innocent according to the CPS. and Unfortunately there is not another specialist I can go to without driving hundreds of miles. (The good news: my child is developing normal contrary to doctor opinion and She no longer has to see a specialist!!
It’s a wonder any one dares to have kids in this environment, knowing that CPS has the power to snatch them from you at will, for whatever reason.
Amberrose, I’m so glad that your daughter is doing so well. It sounds like you are a loving and conscientious parent.
Jennifer, it’s wonderful that there are people who are willing to take in other people’s children when there is real need in those children’s lives. The children, had they gone directly to an adoptive home instead of being warehoused at CPS probably wouldn’t have many of the problems you are dealing with.
Yes, there are bad parents out there that hurt their children. Yes, there are bad foster parents out there that hurt someone else’s children. But CPS is the only entity out there that deliberately hurts children and lies to the parents and the children, and probably the foster care people, in order to ensure their own jobs and salaries.
And, to compare the home that your children were removed from with any of the YFZ FLDS children’s homes is comparing apples to submaries.
Have you read the Mental Health workers reports about what good parents the YFZ mothers were and how they should be TEACHING parenting classes? Have you read the MH workers reports AND the reports of many of the administrators/staff of where these children were imprisoned and read about what well-adjusted, helpful, kind, social children these were? Have you read the report about these children’s education? How they scored ABOVE average in just about all areas?
I am angered by the actions of CPS who feels these can go into a small village and TAKE a village worth of children based on someone’s lie.
I read about a teacher in TX who was arrested this week for sending a nude picture of herself to a 14 year old student’s cell phone and I believe has been having a sexual relationship with him.
If CPS were to behave toward the teachers as they did toward the FLDS, they need to go to that school and remove every single child in harm’s way from ALL teachers (since all FLDS parents are child sexual abusers because one has been accused of doing so) but specifically they need to remove ALL teachers’ children from their homes and not permit any contact with either the teacher or their husband/wife, because obviously the children of teachers grow up in a pervasive atmosphere of abuse…
Do you begin to see how WRONG the taking of all 439 children was? Based on a LIE???
If not, I don’t know what to tell you.
I heard that Jackson County DA Rick Bridgeman indicted Wendy Osborne this week for manslaughter in the death of Jessica Scovil and his office is obtaining a warrant for her arrest.
STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH
OUR CHILDREN DEPEND ON IT
IT IS A SAD DAY, WHEN YOU CAN’T TRUST,
THE VERY ONES ENTRUSTED BY THE STATE, TO PROTECT OUR CHILDERN, TO NOT LIE OR TO FABERCATE FACTS .
DHS/CPS IS REALLY GOOD AT TAKING THE TRUE FACTS AND TWISTING THEM TO FIT THEIR NEEDS AND TO FIND A PARENT NEGLECTING THE CHILD, YET WHEN THE PARENT SAYS ANYTHING THEY ARE ONES LYING, BECAUSE THE CPS WORKER IS SO NOT CAPABLE OF SUCH ACTS, YET IT HAPPENS, AND THEY GET BY WITH IT, BECAUSE THEIR WORD IS GOLDEN! SADLY IT HAPPENS AND NOT ONLY HERE IN MADISON COUNTY!!!
STATEWIDE>>>>>>>>>>EVEN NATIONWIDE!!!!
TOGETHER WE CAN STAND A CHANCE OF BEING HEARD, AND HOPEFULLY AN OVERHAUL OF DHS/CPS, AND AN INVESTIGATION OF THE WRONG DOING IN THE OFFICES HERE AND STATEWIDE BY AN OUTSIDE PARTY, WHO WILL FIND IN OUR FAVOR!!!!
WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THE TRUTH IS HEARD!!!
WILL YOU STAND WITH US???
IF SO E-MAIL US AT standupforthetruth@yahoo.com!!!
OR WRITE TO P.O. BOX 546 ELKINS, AR 72727
hello i to have had alots of trouble with cps years ago . I was very stress so much the courts and the cps worker did not help any way .Through so much corruction and no help at all .lets speak out for a change in 2009 across this nation USA The banks lied . So did the cps system.Hope this will help
I would like to say that by now I hope everyone realizes that Jessica was taken from her mother because she has Mental Health issues. And as for the workers going to family to take Jessica before they put her in foster care I know to be a fact that they NEVER contacted the mother’s parents at all about taking Jessica. They were never given the chance to pass the states “TEST” to take care of her. Much less that they lived 1800 miles away. And as for it being God’s plan to take Jessica; I believe that Jessica died to show the state of Ga just because you have a mental illness doesn’t make you a bad mom even mom’s without a mental illness can make mistakes that kill children.
I am so sorry for the loss this mother suffered. Its a terrible thing when a baby dies, no matter who was in charge of her. I read through a few “comments” at the top and I can tell you speaking from expierience …. you are both right.
CPS is over zealous to shove kids in the system. They will look at all angles and get a worker in the home and at the first sign of a “violation” of their rules, they take your child and say its in their best interest. EVEN if their rules are not illegal or even immoral. It could be as simple as we dont like friend x, dont leave her alone with the children. They find out friend x sat in the car with the kids while you ran to a mailbox and kids 1-3 are looked at 6-9 months with strangers.
At the same time there are foster parents who TRULY love children and could care less about the money. They want to reach into the heart of the wounded child and teach them love!
My sources for my opinions~ I spent 6 years of my life in the system. In the years between 12 and 18 I lived with 47 different foster families. Stability, normal childhood and family was something I pined for. I begged to go home. I begged to be normal. I wished I was big so that nobody could tell me where to go, what to do and that no one would be PAID to love me.
However there were a few families who truly tried. They loved me through the emotional problems I developed in the system ( I entered due to a drug abusive mother and a grandfather who worked too hard to care for us, despite his age and long work hours. My brothers never got taken, just me as the only girl who NEEDED a mother…) My problems worsened in foster care and for a very long time I fought inner demons to overcome the aniexty, fear and loneliness I carried into adulthood. There were fond memories of a few families who took me to the beach, the carnivals. They did movie nights and made me snacks when I was hungry… never before had I felt so “normal”. SOme had kids of their own who they treated the SAME ( well their kids sometimes got spanked and I didnt so yay for that
I grew up and became a mommy…. the little boy I felt growing inside of me, his heart racing with mine transformed me. I was in awe of his existence. I felt him kick, and it told me “I am strong, Mommy! I am a fighter, I will make you so proud!” When he was born I felt like I was being torn in half but every tear, every gut wrneching pain led me to the moment when they placed him in my arms. He was screaming so loud he was turning purple! He was covered in blood and goo and sticky from head to toe. He was the most beautiful site I had ever layed eyes on. I was riveted in his breathing and watching him breastfeed after he was bathed. I was usre I was dreaming and somebody would show up and say ok, sorry but we changed our mind you cant have him, hes too precious! Hours later I awoke to a horrendous pain. I was hemmoraging blood and before I knew what happened the nurses and white coats invaded our dimly lit room and were trying to save my life. I nearly died, lost a third of my blood. and it would have been accepetable. If his life cost me mine, it would be a bittersweet price to pay. I loved him enough to give up anything for him…..
six weeks later a social worker handed me her buisness card and tried to take my son from my arms. A worker at the local CASA where I had called for help had reported my abusive boyfriend. They didnt care that I threw him out after he blackened my eye. I put a restraining order and tried to spare my son the misery. I had a job taking care of a little girl. My son accompanied me to work, he nursed at will and never left my side. No one was gone enough to watch him. I showered with him in the bouncy seat next to the tub. And yet when I reached out for help in what to do … and followed the instructions to throw the non working bum that was his father out… I lost my precious baby boy. He was yanked from my breast and stuck on formula. He was given shots he had already had by mistake in their care. I visited him daily. One hour was all I was allowed before the tore him away and gave him to his “new” mother. I cried so bad I threw up. I considered suicide but couldnt bear the thought of never seeing him again. Life was nothing without him. He was my life, my soul, my son. I had fallen completly in love in six short weeks.
I went to court and begged the judge to give me my son back, I pleaded, willing to sign whatever I had to. No price was too high and nothing would stand in my way. It worked. I left court that day and got my boy. I held him tighter then I had ever held anything before. I looked over my shoulder for quite some time wondering if they would come for him. He is four now, yet I still check in on him numerous times a nite. I am always checking locks and windows… terrifed somebody will take him away while he sleeps….. he will never remember that they stole him away for that week, but I will never forget. Its burned into my brain and my heart.
That week was worse then the 6 years I spent locked away from my childhood in the system. If anyone ever tried to take him, I fear that I would run. In a flash we would have different names and a new life. I must admit that its all planned out. The system has to stop stealing our babies! because bad choices arent always bad parents! Some people change when that baby is placed in their arms. Show them how to care for him or her! DONT take him away first!
Obviously I see both sides, but my heart remains partial to bio families.
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I just got done reading all these entries and I think that you all are just ignorant to all that is entailed with things dealing with foster parents and CPS. My mom and dad are not my bio parents. They were my foster parents from 3 months to 3 years when they were finally able to adopt me. I love them more than my bio family (that I have met 21 years after leaving their home). I felt no pull what so ever to my bio family. I would on the other hand give my life for my adopted family. They gave me a better life than I would have been given by my bio family. Matter fact, after I met my bio mother, I went directly to my mom and cried because I was so thankful that she gave me such a good life.
We have had over 150 children in and out of our home over a 30 years span. We have seen kids with all kinds of problems. My parents had one bio son and adopted me and another girl. It was not about the money at any point. Some of these kids came and went within days depending on their circumstances. The money we got for them was to take them to the store and buy them things that they needed such as underwear, socks, shoes, pants, shirts, toothbrushes. Normally we would put in our own money because what we got was not enough.
My parents took these kids in because they felt that children are our future and if they have very little chance of even surviving to adulthood what does that mean for our future.
You all think that CPS is out to get everyone but that is not true. I am currently a single mom of a 2 yr old who was born at 24 weeks at 1 lb 2 oz. I do not feel that CPS is on my back. My mother is actually a CPS supervisor and she sees nothing wrong with my child or anything else in the home. THEY ARE NOT THERE TO TAKE OUR CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They try everything in their power to keep the children in their bio homes. That one about the father who’s wife died probably had problems before that.
That comment I read about how CPS takes the kids from their homes because the foster care people are pushing them for more kids was the most rediculous thing I have ever heard!!!!!!!! On a norm, there are not enough homes for the children that are in the system. That is why the foster homes are overwelmed. That woman who had the 9 month old die in the car had two kids of her own and 2 other foster kids. 5 CHILDREN!! not the two that Jeny has. More than likely most of them if not all had some sort of problems whether it be physical, emotional, and/or behavioral. That is alot to deal with when you are well let alone sick and on medication. It was an accident. Yes it was bad that a child died because of it but unfortunatly it happens ever day. To be a foster parent you have to have love for children by choice not because you had given birth to them. That is a lot harder than most people give them credit. Children die everyday because they fall into a pool, or drink poison, or fall off the couch or even for no reason. It probably tore that woman apart knowing a child died in her care. You all act like it made her a cold hearted person because she made a mistake to a child that was not hers but that she opened her home and heart to.
The CPS workers have laws that they must follow. They are doing their jobs. They don’t make the laws. The government does. Do you know how many times my mother cries herself to sleep at night because of things that she has to do because the government tells her to. I have known people who should have gotten their children taken away from them but because of the laws they don’t. Or they will be taken just so the parents can put on a show to get their kids back and then go back to how it was before. Children are not taken because you are too poor!!!!!! There are resources out there to get help but if you abuse them or are unwilling to do what they want from you then that is your fault. If you are truely financially unable to care for your child even with all the help out there, then you should accept that and truely love your child and give them that opportunity to live a better life. It is very selfish of you to have your children when you are absolutly incapable of caring for them emotionally, physically, or even financially.
CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE!!!!!!!! It has been known that children of abuse of any kind is more ampt to become abusers. It is known that children who are malnutritioned are affected mentally and physically. Do you really want them to grow up and be the adults that take care of us?
The CPS workers have laws that they must follow. They are doing their jobs.
Which if you had been paying attention to this case you would know were not followed. Their own procedures were not followed.
Stories of CPS & CASA abuses are legion.
And this is classic: They try everything in their power to keep the children in their bio homes.
Again, not done in this case. In fact, various offers were made & rejected by CPS because how can you rifle through someone’s underwear drawer while they’re still in the house?
If you look on the internet, there are THOUSANDS of cases of abuse, neglect, and malice on the part of CPS against families and children. Are they all making it up?
Your story was nice, but it is the exception, never the rule.
Hitler loved his dogs, so what?
Taken as a whole, CPS is a rogue agency totally out of control. In Texas, this has been a CERTIFIED FACT.
This socialist retard who grew up in foster care, and doesn’t understand the love of a biological relative, the subconscious affection for your own flesh and blood that supercedes your conscious beliefs in fascist government values.
Her ignorance shows, as well as her lack of willingness to see the other side, but just assumes there is no world beyond her cultish foster care life. She must not have bothered to read the links to the articles that show Jessica Scovil’s mother did nothing abusive to her baby at all. She merely went to social services for help to buy some medications, and CPS comes and takes her child and puts her with an overworked foster care provider, all to pad their stats and keep their jobs.
She must not have read that the tests on Osborne came back negative. In other words she was NOT under the influence when she let that poor couple’s baby DIE in sweltering heat in the back of her car. This foster care cult woman actually sympathises with this murderer, and condemns the poor parents who did nothing to warrant the loss of their child to the midday burning heat.
There’s nothing that can be done to change the mind of those born in the CULT of foster care and kidnapping. They have their beliefs, there’s no point in arguing. Just stay the hell away from my kids, is all I can say to the freak woman who posted above.
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