To my dearly beloved readers...
People are generally stupid and are easily misled. This leads me to the following question.
At what point in your lives did the Child Protective Industry become the bad guy?
I'll just bet that before you had the wonderful experience of a Child Protective Worker crawling up your ass, you yourself were supportive of the child protective industry because you were ignorant of the realities associated with what it truly is, now weren't you? You didn't think that anything like this could ever happen to you, now did you?
Don't lie. We all know.
You thought that all of these wonderful people were there to help the children. You thought that they were there to protect children from all of those truly horrible parents out there who beat them half to death or starved them until they were skin and bones or molested them while burning their skin with cigarette butts, on and on and on. "Oh my God! How can these monsters do such horrible things to their children?"
I'll even bet that at some point in your life, you yourself may have considered or even gone as far as reporting a suspected case of abuse or neglect on somebody else's kids, huh. Why? Because you thought it was the right thing to do. Didn't you!
Then suddenly Sally the Social Worker shows up at your door, points the finger at you. The next thing you know, your kids are snatched because you're an easy target, you are singled out, all of these people up your ass about everything, you have to deal with court dates, and lawyers, shrinks, parenting class teaching goodie goodies, and everybody else who you would just like to strangle. You didn't even have to do anything wrong. And all it took to make this all happen was somebody made a phone call, mixed with you being poor and therefore an easy target and suddenly you learn what they are all about.
So here you are. Crying out, "How can they do this to me and my family?" And the simple answer to that question is that society demands it of them.
You see people, this is why the family rights movement is set up to fail. Most of society is blindly supportive of the Child Protective Industry, because they just don't understand what a monster it has become. And why should they? You who now understandeth the truth are, in the eyes of society, the monster that you yourself once thought of only as the horrible abusive parents who you saw on TV or read about in the papers. So why should anybody believe you?
So what do you do now? You cry out, try to get people to band together, organize and bring down the agency? Do you kiss the workers ass, believe all of her false promises in desperate hope of getting the kids back? Oh I know! We can complain to our government, right? After all, this is America (or Canada, UK, Australia, etc) and we're a civilized nation. This sort of thing just doesn't happen here. Lets call our senators and congressmen! They'll make things right! Right?
Wait a minute here, recently, an article was posted to the internet. Child Abuse Awareness Raised In Maine. This article tells the story of Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut banging out a bi-partisan effort to combat child abuse by designating April as National Child Abuse Awareness Month without even a hint in the article as to what constitutes child abuse or neglect and without any consideration of what the Child Protective Industry has become. Therefore these two senators are supportive of child welfare fraud. It's a short and to the point article. Great publicity for their public images, because of course, this is being preached to the unenlightened masses, (the poor misguided souls), so what are they going to do? They're gonna believe it. Hell, Senator Susan Collins of Maine was even able to use her support of the Child Protective Industry as an election year photo opportunity. And what about Representative Michelle Bachman of Minnesota, who brags about her time as a foster parent as if she's the all time wonderful mother of the year, and even Senator John McCain who bragged about being an adoptive parent just before getting his ass beat by Obama. Surely all of these people have touched the lives of the children, right?
Oh yeah these are the people to call, it would probably be more effective to report them all for child abuse so that they get a taste of their own legislation. But I'm not suggesting that we go around making false accusations against anybody or anything like that.
Ok, enough of the babbling. What I'm trying to do here, people, is give you an understanding of human nature. And specifically the aspect of human nature where humans will accept the reality with which they are presented just like you did before CPS touched your lives. Now a days, reality is often created on the television mind control device that takes up space in living rooms all across the country. And public support for the child protective industry is so much that that our government officials can use it to their advantage in the next election. In other words, our government knows what values to preach because they help to create them on television.
And the fact of the matter is that this is nothing new. This concept, that humans accept the reality with which they are presented goes all the way back to Ancient Greece when the great Philosopher Plato wrote of Socrates. So to give you another view, here is an animation that tells Plato's story of the cave. Please watch before you continue reading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2afuTvUzBQ
The analogy here is that you are the one who left the cave and have seen the world for what it truly is. Yet when you try to share the truth, you are viewed by others as crazy. "Why would they take your kid away if you didn't do anything wrong?" After all, "They're only there to protect the poor abused and neglected children." Right?
See people, through the endurance of pain comes wisdom. Through your victimization many of you have fallen into the darkness, yet so many more of you have become enlightened. Some of you see through the bullshit and fight onward, others stand around taking it like a bitch.
Most of you now understand that the whole thing is based on a lie. But just how deep does this lie go? Well lets not forget happened to our beloved Senator Nancy Schaefer, who because of her opposition to the Child Protective Industry, lost her seat in the Georgia State Senate and quite possibly her life.
Anyway, this is the setting in which the child protective industry exists. Appearances are everything. Reality is an illusion. Bullshit reigns king. The public perception of the Child Protective Industry remains positive because of the way the issue is portrayed on television or in the newspapers by those who have never as much as had a child protective worker up their ass, and our government officials buy into it hook, line and sinker. Meanwhile, the opposition is using the number of calls to the hotline as an indicator of child abuse rates while sticking pinwheels in the ground, and you're not even as much as showing up at these events to spread truth and awareness and even put forth the slightest effort.
The point to all of this is that this kind of an understanding of the world helped me to create Legally Kidnapped. With Legally Kidnapped, I spread awareness about the fraud and crimes committed by the child protective industry. I fight for truth. I fight for you.
You are now an enlightened one. You now know how it all works. Now you know how people think. So what are you going to do about it? I guess that's up to you. But knowledge is power. Understanding is everything.
Spread awareness. It's time to create a new reality where these people are understood to be the fakes and frauds that they are.
Love
LK Legally Kidnapped
http://www.legallykidnapped.blogspot.com/
Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
CPS is Not Your Friend
CPS is Not Your Friend
March 8, 2010yvonnemason
In all your dealings with CPS, even if your worker seems friendly and helpful, always keep in mind that the CPS system is NOT your friend, NOT your counselor, and NOT your advocate. Understand that you are in an adversarial (oppositional) relationship with CPS, that you are being evaluated and investigated by CPS, that CPS can take your child, and that every thing you say can and often will be used against you.
The very words ‘child protective services’ sound so humanitarian, and so in tune with what mothers want, especially those mothers who are dealing with a violent partner, that women frequently make the serious mistake of thinking that CPS is their friend. Or they think that CPS will at least by on the same side with them, or that CPS will naturally work to support their needs and interests. This mistaken belief is even easier to fall into when the CPS worker is friendly or tells you directly that she or he wants to help you. In fact, your worker may truly believe that he or she is there to help you. CPS workers themselves are often blind to the underlying dynamics of the system they work for.
The reality is that CPS system is a government agency armed with the enormous power to take your child, and to do so on only the most minimal pretext, with only the smallest sliver of evidence, and minimal due process rights for you. The CPS system is set up to investigate and judge whether or not you are a fit parent, even when everyone knows you are not the one who abused your child.
So, if you are a non-offending parent, in all your dealings with CPS, remember, CPS is not your friend! CPS is not your counselor! CPS is not your advocate! If you always keep this in mind, it will help you avoid some common and tragic mistakes. It will also help you to take basic, but critical steps to protect yourself from CPS abuses of power along the way.
Here are the kinds of mistakes so many women fall into when they believe that CPS is on their side. Women often pour their hearts out to CPS. They open their homes and family life to CPS, and give CPS all kinds of intimate information that CPS then can, and often will, use against you. Another big mistake women make when they think CPS is on their side, is that they trust that CPS is looking after their interests. They let their guard down. They don’t pay attention to what’s going on. They don’t prepare and protect themselves. And, all too often, they don’t wake up until it’s too late.
Example: Here’s just one example of the kind of tragedy that occurs over and over again when women think CPS is on their side. An exhausted mother has been coping with an abusive husband for years. One day her 10-year-old daughter tells a teacher that the reason she’s late to school is because her father got in a fight with her mother after breakfast and he started beating her mother. The teacher reports this to CPS. The CPS worker tells the mother she wants to help the family. The mother bares her heart to the worker. The mother tells the CPS worker how stressed she has been. How much trouble she has sleeping. How fearful she is in the home. She tells CPS that a year ago she went to a shelter, but soon returned to the abusive husband because she didn’t think she could make enough money to feed the children. She says she tries to warn the children against being around the father when he gets in that mood. She says she doesn’t know what to do.
Then one day the mother gets a copy of the written CPS report. She is stunned to read that the worker has written that ‘this mother is out of control, can’t cope, is mentally unstable and unable to protect the child’, and that, furthermore, the mother is ‘alienating the children from the father’. And that based on this, CPS is petitioning the court to remove the child from the mother.
It happens like this over and over again. So right from the beginning, understand that CPS is geared up and empowered to protect children against parents. CPS is not working on your behalf. Even if CPS lines up a whole set of programs for you to attend to help you keep your child, you need to realize that if you don’t comply with these programs to CPS satisfaction, CPS holds the threat of taking your child. This does not constitute a friendly relationship. Even though every one agrees that you did not abuse the child, you are in an adversarial (oppositional) relationship with CPS, and a particularly precarious adversarial relationship at that.
The proof that you are in an adversarial (oppositional) relationship with CPS is that (in most states) the juvenile court must assign you an attorney to represent your interests and protect you from CPS powers when you’re in court with CPS. This is a huge clue that even the courts recognize that you, the non-offending parent, are in an adversarial relationship with CPS and that you need legal protection from CPS powers.
Another way to look at this is to understand that the only special power authorized to the CPS/juvenile court system is a power that can hurt you badly, i.e., the power to take your child. CPS is not empowered in any special way to help you. It’s true that CPS can give you referrals to various social and psychological services, but those are all things that you can do for yourself. Worse yet, when CPS gives you these referrals, they are usually mandated referrals given under threat of losing your child if you don’t comply. But in terms of any unique governmental power designed to help you, the non-offending parent, CPS has nothing. CPS is not empowered to hold the perpetrator accountable, is not empowered to obtain justice for either you or your child, and is not empowered to protect you.
It’s critical that you understand that once CPS opens a case on your child, even though everyone knows you are not the abuser, you are being investigated and judged by the CPS system. And a determination is being made as to whether or not to take your child. This is not a friendly relationship. You are in an adversarial (oppositional) relationship with CPS.
It’s worth repeating. It does not matter how helpful, encouraging, or humanitarian your individual CPS worker might be, the CPS system is NOT your friend. They are investigating you. You are under threat of losing your child.
NOTE: The CPS system was established in the middle of last century at a time when women’s and children’s rights within the family were not well established. Family violence was not viewed as a crime, i.e. was not viewed as a serious offense against society. A man’s home was his castle, and women and children were his legal inferiors. CPS was structured in a way to conform to these very patriarchal views, and, for the most part, CPS structure and operation remains legally locked into those outdated and oppressive modes today.
http://protectingourchildrenfrombeingsold.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/cps-is-not-your-friend/
March 8, 2010yvonnemason
In all your dealings with CPS, even if your worker seems friendly and helpful, always keep in mind that the CPS system is NOT your friend, NOT your counselor, and NOT your advocate. Understand that you are in an adversarial (oppositional) relationship with CPS, that you are being evaluated and investigated by CPS, that CPS can take your child, and that every thing you say can and often will be used against you.
The very words ‘child protective services’ sound so humanitarian, and so in tune with what mothers want, especially those mothers who are dealing with a violent partner, that women frequently make the serious mistake of thinking that CPS is their friend. Or they think that CPS will at least by on the same side with them, or that CPS will naturally work to support their needs and interests. This mistaken belief is even easier to fall into when the CPS worker is friendly or tells you directly that she or he wants to help you. In fact, your worker may truly believe that he or she is there to help you. CPS workers themselves are often blind to the underlying dynamics of the system they work for.
The reality is that CPS system is a government agency armed with the enormous power to take your child, and to do so on only the most minimal pretext, with only the smallest sliver of evidence, and minimal due process rights for you. The CPS system is set up to investigate and judge whether or not you are a fit parent, even when everyone knows you are not the one who abused your child.
So, if you are a non-offending parent, in all your dealings with CPS, remember, CPS is not your friend! CPS is not your counselor! CPS is not your advocate! If you always keep this in mind, it will help you avoid some common and tragic mistakes. It will also help you to take basic, but critical steps to protect yourself from CPS abuses of power along the way.
Here are the kinds of mistakes so many women fall into when they believe that CPS is on their side. Women often pour their hearts out to CPS. They open their homes and family life to CPS, and give CPS all kinds of intimate information that CPS then can, and often will, use against you. Another big mistake women make when they think CPS is on their side, is that they trust that CPS is looking after their interests. They let their guard down. They don’t pay attention to what’s going on. They don’t prepare and protect themselves. And, all too often, they don’t wake up until it’s too late.
Example: Here’s just one example of the kind of tragedy that occurs over and over again when women think CPS is on their side. An exhausted mother has been coping with an abusive husband for years. One day her 10-year-old daughter tells a teacher that the reason she’s late to school is because her father got in a fight with her mother after breakfast and he started beating her mother. The teacher reports this to CPS. The CPS worker tells the mother she wants to help the family. The mother bares her heart to the worker. The mother tells the CPS worker how stressed she has been. How much trouble she has sleeping. How fearful she is in the home. She tells CPS that a year ago she went to a shelter, but soon returned to the abusive husband because she didn’t think she could make enough money to feed the children. She says she tries to warn the children against being around the father when he gets in that mood. She says she doesn’t know what to do.
Then one day the mother gets a copy of the written CPS report. She is stunned to read that the worker has written that ‘this mother is out of control, can’t cope, is mentally unstable and unable to protect the child’, and that, furthermore, the mother is ‘alienating the children from the father’. And that based on this, CPS is petitioning the court to remove the child from the mother.
It happens like this over and over again. So right from the beginning, understand that CPS is geared up and empowered to protect children against parents. CPS is not working on your behalf. Even if CPS lines up a whole set of programs for you to attend to help you keep your child, you need to realize that if you don’t comply with these programs to CPS satisfaction, CPS holds the threat of taking your child. This does not constitute a friendly relationship. Even though every one agrees that you did not abuse the child, you are in an adversarial (oppositional) relationship with CPS, and a particularly precarious adversarial relationship at that.
The proof that you are in an adversarial (oppositional) relationship with CPS is that (in most states) the juvenile court must assign you an attorney to represent your interests and protect you from CPS powers when you’re in court with CPS. This is a huge clue that even the courts recognize that you, the non-offending parent, are in an adversarial relationship with CPS and that you need legal protection from CPS powers.
Another way to look at this is to understand that the only special power authorized to the CPS/juvenile court system is a power that can hurt you badly, i.e., the power to take your child. CPS is not empowered in any special way to help you. It’s true that CPS can give you referrals to various social and psychological services, but those are all things that you can do for yourself. Worse yet, when CPS gives you these referrals, they are usually mandated referrals given under threat of losing your child if you don’t comply. But in terms of any unique governmental power designed to help you, the non-offending parent, CPS has nothing. CPS is not empowered to hold the perpetrator accountable, is not empowered to obtain justice for either you or your child, and is not empowered to protect you.
It’s critical that you understand that once CPS opens a case on your child, even though everyone knows you are not the abuser, you are being investigated and judged by the CPS system. And a determination is being made as to whether or not to take your child. This is not a friendly relationship. You are in an adversarial (oppositional) relationship with CPS.
It’s worth repeating. It does not matter how helpful, encouraging, or humanitarian your individual CPS worker might be, the CPS system is NOT your friend. They are investigating you. You are under threat of losing your child.
NOTE: The CPS system was established in the middle of last century at a time when women’s and children’s rights within the family were not well established. Family violence was not viewed as a crime, i.e. was not viewed as a serious offense against society. A man’s home was his castle, and women and children were his legal inferiors. CPS was structured in a way to conform to these very patriarchal views, and, for the most part, CPS structure and operation remains legally locked into those outdated and oppressive modes today.
http://protectingourchildrenfrombeingsold.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/cps-is-not-your-friend/
This shows how CPS Uses Invisible Chains to keep the parent in line – It is time to break those chains
This shows how CPS Uses Invisible Chains to keep the parent in line – It is time to break those chains
May 4, 2010yvonnemason
CPS= Child Protective Services
FCS= Family Court Services
http://www.sandiegochildtrafficking.com/10-invisible-chains-cps-uses.php
1. Coercion and Threats. Often, CPS and FCS traffickers will threaten the children and the parents they will never see each other ever again if they do not agree to sign a service plan. This is a powerful threat, especially when you know the CPS and FCS trafficker have the color of law and knows exactly where your family lives and has 100% authority to issue an arrest and track you down if you even dare make a run for it. CPS and FCS Traffickers may also threaten to tell your family and community that you have been in prostitution or doing drugs. They may tell you no one will believe you over them.
2. Controlling Perception. CPS and FCS Traffickers control victims’ perception of their situation and the world by being their primary or only source of information to the authorities, and Psychologist that have power to Commit you, charge you with a crime or terminate visits all together with your children. The CPS and FCS traffickers have 100% credability, and they can and will tell the police you beat your children, do drugs and are a prostitute with the authority to have you arrested, deport you and have your children adopted out. The CPS and FCS traffickers tell you that you have no rights. The government is corrupt and everyone in the Business is their friend. So what can you do?
3. Creating Dependencies. CPS and FCS Traffickers make their victims completely dependent. They may control physical items such as your passport and court order Conservetor over you fianaces. They may court order you to take drugs and become addicted. Traffickers also create dependencies by controlling all aspects of your life, court order you to divorce, court you to have no contact with any family or friends.
4. Economic Abuse. Economic abuse is extremely common in CPS and FCS trafficking situations. Debt bondage- excessive debt enforced under abusive and unreasonable court fees, Guardian adlitum fees, child support, court order therapy and classes after classes -can bind you to your CPS and FCS traffickers, especially if the traffickers have told you’ll be thrown in jail if you don’t pay the debt. You can easily be trapped in a never ending cycle of fabricated debt and/or control of your money.
5. False Promises. Sometimes hope is the strongest weapon. The CPS and FCS traffickers may have made you promises- earning visits with your children, safe return of your children if you comply to their damand. These promises are what lured you into exploitation and what keeps you in the process of the kangaroo courts . The parents that really are loving and Good parents are espacially vulnerable to such manipulation.
6. Indulgences. One strong control tactic for creating emotional dependencies is providing occasional indulgences, like a certificate that says you completed one step out of a hundred and says you now earned a supervised phone call with your child, a Positive report to the Judge, like she stop being a prostitute when you never was in the first place. These indulgences, especially when coupled with the false promises, lure you into a false sense of security and trust that if you just keep doing everything they ask.
7. Isolation. CPS and FCS Traffickers may isolate victims by limiting contact with others and monitoring conversations. CPS and FCS Traffickers may prevent you from talking to your family or people in your same ethnic or religious group. They may repeatedly tell your life style or religion is is inapropiate in your situation and therefore must cut off all contact with everyone you have ever known. They will let you know No one will help, you have no legal rights, that what has happened is your fault, and there is no hope because no one believes this could happen in a court and because it is a closed court no one will ever have proof.
8. Minimizing and Blaming: CPS and FCS Traffickers may reinforce internalizing blame by telling you that you’re worthless, deserving of this abuse. The CPS and FCS trafficker claims you were fount unfit and therefore are under their authority and control, which both minimizes you and justifies the abuse.
9. Privilege: Cultural, Religious and/or Gender. CPS and FCS traffickers degrade your religious or cultural beliefs and force you to do things against your religion or culture. Male CPS and FCS traffickers will often use gender privilege to control female victims, including using rape and sexual abuse as control tactics.
10. Sexual Abuse. Sexual abuse doesn’t always have to be physical, such as rape, or sexual assault. Sometimes, sexual harassment and threatened sexual violence are even more effective tools of control. The CPS and FCS trafficker may call you degrading sexual names or threaten to rape or assault you and laugh saying no one will believe you because our Psychologist will just say it is a delusion from your delusional disorder.
These are just a few of the invisible chains which CPS and FCS traffickers use to keep their Victims trapped . Sadly, many of these are just as effective if not more so than actually locking a victim up with chains.
http://protectingourchildrenfrombeingsold.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/this-shows-how-cps-uses-invisible-chains-to-keep-the-parent-in-line-it-is-time-to-break-those-chains/
May 4, 2010yvonnemason
CPS= Child Protective Services
FCS= Family Court Services
http://www.sandiegochildtrafficking.com/10-invisible-chains-cps-uses.php
1. Coercion and Threats. Often, CPS and FCS traffickers will threaten the children and the parents they will never see each other ever again if they do not agree to sign a service plan. This is a powerful threat, especially when you know the CPS and FCS trafficker have the color of law and knows exactly where your family lives and has 100% authority to issue an arrest and track you down if you even dare make a run for it. CPS and FCS Traffickers may also threaten to tell your family and community that you have been in prostitution or doing drugs. They may tell you no one will believe you over them.
2. Controlling Perception. CPS and FCS Traffickers control victims’ perception of their situation and the world by being their primary or only source of information to the authorities, and Psychologist that have power to Commit you, charge you with a crime or terminate visits all together with your children. The CPS and FCS traffickers have 100% credability, and they can and will tell the police you beat your children, do drugs and are a prostitute with the authority to have you arrested, deport you and have your children adopted out. The CPS and FCS traffickers tell you that you have no rights. The government is corrupt and everyone in the Business is their friend. So what can you do?
3. Creating Dependencies. CPS and FCS Traffickers make their victims completely dependent. They may control physical items such as your passport and court order Conservetor over you fianaces. They may court order you to take drugs and become addicted. Traffickers also create dependencies by controlling all aspects of your life, court order you to divorce, court you to have no contact with any family or friends.
4. Economic Abuse. Economic abuse is extremely common in CPS and FCS trafficking situations. Debt bondage- excessive debt enforced under abusive and unreasonable court fees, Guardian adlitum fees, child support, court order therapy and classes after classes -can bind you to your CPS and FCS traffickers, especially if the traffickers have told you’ll be thrown in jail if you don’t pay the debt. You can easily be trapped in a never ending cycle of fabricated debt and/or control of your money.
5. False Promises. Sometimes hope is the strongest weapon. The CPS and FCS traffickers may have made you promises- earning visits with your children, safe return of your children if you comply to their damand. These promises are what lured you into exploitation and what keeps you in the process of the kangaroo courts . The parents that really are loving and Good parents are espacially vulnerable to such manipulation.
6. Indulgences. One strong control tactic for creating emotional dependencies is providing occasional indulgences, like a certificate that says you completed one step out of a hundred and says you now earned a supervised phone call with your child, a Positive report to the Judge, like she stop being a prostitute when you never was in the first place. These indulgences, especially when coupled with the false promises, lure you into a false sense of security and trust that if you just keep doing everything they ask.
7. Isolation. CPS and FCS Traffickers may isolate victims by limiting contact with others and monitoring conversations. CPS and FCS Traffickers may prevent you from talking to your family or people in your same ethnic or religious group. They may repeatedly tell your life style or religion is is inapropiate in your situation and therefore must cut off all contact with everyone you have ever known. They will let you know No one will help, you have no legal rights, that what has happened is your fault, and there is no hope because no one believes this could happen in a court and because it is a closed court no one will ever have proof.
8. Minimizing and Blaming: CPS and FCS Traffickers may reinforce internalizing blame by telling you that you’re worthless, deserving of this abuse. The CPS and FCS trafficker claims you were fount unfit and therefore are under their authority and control, which both minimizes you and justifies the abuse.
9. Privilege: Cultural, Religious and/or Gender. CPS and FCS traffickers degrade your religious or cultural beliefs and force you to do things against your religion or culture. Male CPS and FCS traffickers will often use gender privilege to control female victims, including using rape and sexual abuse as control tactics.
10. Sexual Abuse. Sexual abuse doesn’t always have to be physical, such as rape, or sexual assault. Sometimes, sexual harassment and threatened sexual violence are even more effective tools of control. The CPS and FCS trafficker may call you degrading sexual names or threaten to rape or assault you and laugh saying no one will believe you because our Psychologist will just say it is a delusion from your delusional disorder.
These are just a few of the invisible chains which CPS and FCS traffickers use to keep their Victims trapped . Sadly, many of these are just as effective if not more so than actually locking a victim up with chains.
http://protectingourchildrenfrombeingsold.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/this-shows-how-cps-uses-invisible-chains-to-keep-the-parent-in-line-it-is-time-to-break-those-chains/
Chancellor's Speech Contest 2010 -- Aaron Kamakawiwoole
In PHC's first annual Real Hope for the Future speech contest, junior Aaron Kamakawiwoole won the $1000 first prize with his speech on the importance of defending parental rights in the United States, describing his lobbying efforts in his home state of Hawaii to pass the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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http://www.legallykidnapped.blogspot.com/
Philadelphia Official, Pro-Life Advocates Respond to Teen Forced Abortion Case
Philadelphia Official, Pro-Life Advocates Respond to Teen Forced Abortion Case
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 5, 2010
Philadelphia, PA (LifeNews.com) -- News of a teenager who was taken to New Jersey from her foster mother and allegedly pressured by city health department officials to have an abortion is drawing outrage from pro-life advocates. Philadelphia's Department of Human Services is the subject of controversy in the sordid tale.
As LifeNews.com has reported, a teenager in the Pennsylvania foster care program became pregnant.
When the state Department of Human Services (DHS) found out, they asked for a family court order approving the state to take her in for an abortion -- despite the fact that her mother refused to consent.
By that time, the girl was 24-weeks pregnant and the abortion had to be done in New Jersey and the teen was taken there for the abortion. The foster care employee didn't contact the girl's foster mom, who panicked when she didn't return from school that day.
When she walked through the door at 8:30 that night, her foster mom asked her "what happened?" The girl replied, "The baby is dead."
Deputy Mayor Donald Schwarz, who oversees DHS, told KYW News today that the agency does not coerce young women or teenagers to have abortions either in policy or practice.
"The agency does have a duty to assure that women under their care have the same rights as other young women, particularly regarding reproductive health," he said.
However, Schwarz would not talk with the radio station about the specific case, citing state privacy laws. He would only say the agency and its staff have been "working diligently" to protect the girl's rights, safety and privacy.
Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, says he worries this Pennsylvania incident may become more commonplace under the government-run health care plan President Barack Obama signed that funds abortions.
"What can we expect from the new federal health care plan? Well, if this story from Pennsylvania is any indication, a multi-state pro-abortion campaign," he said.
"She was smuggled to New Jersey for the appointment--alone. Because the young mom didn't have the proper paperwork, she had to return a second time for the abortion--this time with a state government worker, who ensured that the baby never came home," Perkins continued.
"As for conscience rights of those involved? Forget it. The girl's original social worker was fired for refusing to participate in the abortion," he said. "And while the state insists it didn't pay for the abortion (the city of Mayfair did), a state worker did accompany her and most likely paid for her transportation."
"Unfortunately, this isn't an isolated incident. Of the 335 girls who became pregnant under DHS's care, almost a third abort--and nearly half of those are done by a judge's order," Perkins concluded
http://www.lifenews.com/state5066.html
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 5, 2010
Philadelphia, PA (LifeNews.com) -- News of a teenager who was taken to New Jersey from her foster mother and allegedly pressured by city health department officials to have an abortion is drawing outrage from pro-life advocates. Philadelphia's Department of Human Services is the subject of controversy in the sordid tale.
As LifeNews.com has reported, a teenager in the Pennsylvania foster care program became pregnant.
When the state Department of Human Services (DHS) found out, they asked for a family court order approving the state to take her in for an abortion -- despite the fact that her mother refused to consent.
By that time, the girl was 24-weeks pregnant and the abortion had to be done in New Jersey and the teen was taken there for the abortion. The foster care employee didn't contact the girl's foster mom, who panicked when she didn't return from school that day.
When she walked through the door at 8:30 that night, her foster mom asked her "what happened?" The girl replied, "The baby is dead."
Deputy Mayor Donald Schwarz, who oversees DHS, told KYW News today that the agency does not coerce young women or teenagers to have abortions either in policy or practice.
"The agency does have a duty to assure that women under their care have the same rights as other young women, particularly regarding reproductive health," he said.
However, Schwarz would not talk with the radio station about the specific case, citing state privacy laws. He would only say the agency and its staff have been "working diligently" to protect the girl's rights, safety and privacy.
Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, says he worries this Pennsylvania incident may become more commonplace under the government-run health care plan President Barack Obama signed that funds abortions.
"What can we expect from the new federal health care plan? Well, if this story from Pennsylvania is any indication, a multi-state pro-abortion campaign," he said.
"She was smuggled to New Jersey for the appointment--alone. Because the young mom didn't have the proper paperwork, she had to return a second time for the abortion--this time with a state government worker, who ensured that the baby never came home," Perkins continued.
"As for conscience rights of those involved? Forget it. The girl's original social worker was fired for refusing to participate in the abortion," he said. "And while the state insists it didn't pay for the abortion (the city of Mayfair did), a state worker did accompany her and most likely paid for her transportation."
"Unfortunately, this isn't an isolated incident. Of the 335 girls who became pregnant under DHS's care, almost a third abort--and nearly half of those are done by a judge's order," Perkins concluded
http://www.lifenews.com/state5066.html
Fight to save kinship programs (and dollars) comes to Capitol
Fight to save kinship programs (and dollars) comes to Capitol
Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 12:42 PM by Bryan Fitzgerald in General
Grandparents gathered at the Capitol today to call on legislators to stop budget cuts to kinship caregiver programs. Current budget proposals would cut funding from $3 million to $1 million.
Advocates say that kinship programs save taxpayers money by keeping children out of foster care. According to the Office of Children Family Services, the average cost of a child in non-specialized foster care is $22,000 per year, compared to just $500 per child in a kinship program.
Kinship caregivers raise between 350,000 to 400,000 children in New York. According to the AARP, New York spends $1.5 billion on foster care a year.
“Programs that support grandparents who are raising grandchildren and other relatives caregivers cost New York State a fraction of what the state spends on foster care,” said Lois Aronstein, AARP New York State Director. “Without the essential supports and services that kinship programs provide to grandparents, more children could be forced into the foster care system at a greater cost to New York taxpayers.
The AARP also states that children who live with grandparents achieve more permanency, better well-being, and better outcomes than children in foster care.
“Kinship families are a natural resource for children,” said Gerald Wallace, director of the New York State Kinship Navigator Program. “But for their care, most of these children would be in foster care. It makes no sense to abandon the one resource we have that works for kids.”
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/26032/fight-to-save-kinship-programs-and-dollars-comes-to-capitol/
Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 12:42 PM by Bryan Fitzgerald in General
Grandparents gathered at the Capitol today to call on legislators to stop budget cuts to kinship caregiver programs. Current budget proposals would cut funding from $3 million to $1 million.
Advocates say that kinship programs save taxpayers money by keeping children out of foster care. According to the Office of Children Family Services, the average cost of a child in non-specialized foster care is $22,000 per year, compared to just $500 per child in a kinship program.
Kinship caregivers raise between 350,000 to 400,000 children in New York. According to the AARP, New York spends $1.5 billion on foster care a year.
“Programs that support grandparents who are raising grandchildren and other relatives caregivers cost New York State a fraction of what the state spends on foster care,” said Lois Aronstein, AARP New York State Director. “Without the essential supports and services that kinship programs provide to grandparents, more children could be forced into the foster care system at a greater cost to New York taxpayers.
The AARP also states that children who live with grandparents achieve more permanency, better well-being, and better outcomes than children in foster care.
“Kinship families are a natural resource for children,” said Gerald Wallace, director of the New York State Kinship Navigator Program. “But for their care, most of these children would be in foster care. It makes no sense to abandon the one resource we have that works for kids.”
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/26032/fight-to-save-kinship-programs-and-dollars-comes-to-capitol/
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