Cops & Child Protective Services abuse children when they take them from innocent parents

Examiner Bio Cops & Child Protective Services abuse children when they take them from innocent parents
July 27, 8:27 AMAlbany CPS and Family Court Examiner Daniel Weaver

I have often argued that Child Protective Services and the police are guilty of abusing children. I don't mean they are guilty of abuse when they take children from homes where the parents have sexually and physically abused them, or where children have been neglected through starvation and the like. What I mean is that when children are taken from innocent parents, which happens a lot more than the public realizes, they are often abused.

I will be writing some more about this in the coming weeks. Today, however, I wanted to focus on how Child Protective Services and the police traumatize children during the removal process. Can you imagine being four years old or eight years old or even a teenager, and a number of cops and/or Child Protective Services investigators show up at your house. Your parents have done nothing wrong. They have never hurt or neglected you. Yet here is a big cop with a gun, handcuffs and a taser. You start crying. Your mother or father naturally get upset because you are being taken. The cops then threaten your parents. Finally, the cops drag you to the police car, kicking and screaming.


Taking children from families, without due process, and in many cases when the parents have done nothing wrong, is a widespread phenomenon in the western world. It is child abuse. Nothing more. Nothing less. In part two of this series, I will discuss how children are sometimes abused during the interrogation process.

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