Gov't = caretaker, parent = babysitter
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 6/5/2010 4:20:00 AM
The Senate is expected to take up the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The effort is a dangerous treaty for the family, according to pediatrician Rosemary Stein of Burlington, North Carolina, and a spokesperson for the Christian Medical Association (CMA).
"It takes away the parents' rights to rear their child and gives it to the government," she explains. "The government becomes the caretaker and the guardian, and the parent becomes the babysitter. Another way to define it would be 'the government takeover of our children.'"
If the contract is enforced, the government would have the right to intercede or supersede if officials believe the parents are doing something that is not in the best interest of the child. An example of this comes from Germany, where the government has passed laws that ban parents from homeschooling their children.
"I didn't know that it was this insidious, and at the same time, this overwhelming," Stein laments. "It goes over everything -- what you teach them, what you do with them [and] how they're reared."
The CMA spokesman predicts this will change society from the bottom up. For instance, a 16-year-old girl in Great Britain asked her parents to let her boyfriend move in and share her bedroom. When the parents said no, the teen filed suit and won.
It is not known when the U.S. Senate will try to ratify the treaty, so Dr. Stein says people need to start contacting their senators to voice their views
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1033838
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
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Effects of Adhd Drugs on Children – Parents on High Alert
Effects of Adhd Drugs on Children – Parents on High Alert
Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
One of the alarming effects of medications for ADHD children is that beginning after the terrible path of addiction. Children who have used Ritalin (a drug most commonly prescribed ADHD) may be predisposed to street drugs such as cocaine, crack, amphetamines and methamphetamines in general. This should mot surprising, since the main ingredients of these drugs are amphetamines and methylphenidate. Both drugs act on the central nervous system of the brain. They have shown that addiction.
A poll showed the National Institute of Drug Abuse showed that 15% of 12 graders a prescription drug has been used for non-medical reasons. Guess, prescription drugs top the list for young people? Morphine and ADHD drugs (Ritalin, Wellburtin, Concerta and Strattera).
Another disturbing effect of the drugs for ADHD children is that they are often sold in the school car park – this activity is known as “pharming.” These drugs are often found in adolescents, the adolescent at home – in the medicine cabinet!
Other effects of medication for ADHD children are no less alarming. Sometimes it takes centuries to make the correct dosage. Even so, the effects of these drugs for serious harm to the child. The website of the FDA makes a lot of reading, as all the side effects and problems associated with lists of these psychostimulant drugs. There are many cases of children, to lose weight because of loss of appetite and have healthy snacks, go around them. There is also a long list of effects of heart problems, high blood pressure and even suicidal thoughts and hallucinations.
Many parents of ADHD hours categorically refused to meet their children these psychostimulants for many of the reasons mentioned above. They are now looking farther away from the suffocating understanding of the pharmaceutical industry. There are alternatives that are safe ADHD are effective and do not lead to drug dependence. These natural / homeopathic remedies are ADHD is supported by the medical community, but many thousands of parents now vouch for them as contemptuous of the safest and most effective ADHD is to heal. You can find much more about these treatments in the link below and you’ll never again worry about the effects of medications for ADHD children.
http://universal-drugs.com/fda-drug-alert/effects-of-adhd-drugs-on-children-parents-on-high-alert/
Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
One of the alarming effects of medications for ADHD children is that beginning after the terrible path of addiction. Children who have used Ritalin (a drug most commonly prescribed ADHD) may be predisposed to street drugs such as cocaine, crack, amphetamines and methamphetamines in general. This should mot surprising, since the main ingredients of these drugs are amphetamines and methylphenidate. Both drugs act on the central nervous system of the brain. They have shown that addiction.
A poll showed the National Institute of Drug Abuse showed that 15% of 12 graders a prescription drug has been used for non-medical reasons. Guess, prescription drugs top the list for young people? Morphine and ADHD drugs (Ritalin, Wellburtin, Concerta and Strattera).
Another disturbing effect of the drugs for ADHD children is that they are often sold in the school car park – this activity is known as “pharming.” These drugs are often found in adolescents, the adolescent at home – in the medicine cabinet!
Other effects of medication for ADHD children are no less alarming. Sometimes it takes centuries to make the correct dosage. Even so, the effects of these drugs for serious harm to the child. The website of the FDA makes a lot of reading, as all the side effects and problems associated with lists of these psychostimulant drugs. There are many cases of children, to lose weight because of loss of appetite and have healthy snacks, go around them. There is also a long list of effects of heart problems, high blood pressure and even suicidal thoughts and hallucinations.
Many parents of ADHD hours categorically refused to meet their children these psychostimulants for many of the reasons mentioned above. They are now looking farther away from the suffocating understanding of the pharmaceutical industry. There are alternatives that are safe ADHD are effective and do not lead to drug dependence. These natural / homeopathic remedies are ADHD is supported by the medical community, but many thousands of parents now vouch for them as contemptuous of the safest and most effective ADHD is to heal. You can find much more about these treatments in the link below and you’ll never again worry about the effects of medications for ADHD children.
http://universal-drugs.com/fda-drug-alert/effects-of-adhd-drugs-on-children-parents-on-high-alert/
Saturday, June 5, 2010
AFRA is Looking for Pictures of Dead CPS/DCYF Children in Casket's
Or Your Child Could be One of Them!
Our friends and comrades at AFRA are looking for pictures of dead children in casket's, that died while in state care. God know's, there are thousands! AFRA is working on a new project which deals with all the children who died while in protective custody, at the hands of the people who were hired to protect them. This is a never-ending nightmare, brought on by CPS/DCYF. If this project sound's horrific, blame CPS/DCYF. If it weren't for them, these kids wouldn't be dying. After all, their supposed to be the protectors of children. If CPS/DCYF doesn't like it, too bad! Stop Stealing our Children! Our government and our citizens need to be made aware that CPS/DCYF need's to be held accountable for NOT doing the jobs their paid to do! Instead of "Preserving Families", they are DESTROYING THEM! Ignoring the deceitful practices of CPS/DCYF doesn't help our children. It kill's them!
Please visit AFRA to submit your pictures at: WANTED: Photos of kids in caskets
http://familyrights.us/news/archive/2010/june/wanted.html
Director defends agency Frank Castano says Children and Youth does not focus on foster care.
Posted: 1:00 AM
Director defends agency
Frank Castano says Children and Youth does not focus on foster care.
By Jennifer Learn-Andes jandes@timesleader.com
Luzerne County Reporter
Luzerne County Children and Youth Director Frank Castano said an implication that the county is trying to keep kids in foster care is false because both the county and state have been focusing heavily on getting children back in their homes or adopted.
Castano said the statistics don’t lie.
There were 733 children removed from their homes due to alleged neglect or abuse in the county in November 2008. As of April 30 this year, there were 533.
Statements made by local attorney Jim Hayward this week created the impression that the county is unnecessarily placing children in foster care.
Hayward, who plans to file a federal lawsuit on behalf of parents who had children removed from their homes, said Friday that the statistics are irrelevant to him because he has many examples of parents with children who languished in foster care for no reason.
“I have one client who had a child who was placed in 17 different foster homes,” Hayward said.
County officials say the reduction in foster care placements stems largely from the county’s participation in two initiatives aimed at preventing children from getting bounced around in foster care and institutions.
As part of one of these programs, run by the state Department of Public Welfare, the county was challenged in 2008 to reduce outside placements 20 percent by the end of 2010.
The county has already surpassed that goal, with a reduction of roughly 31 percent.
This program – the “National Governors’ Association Initiative to Safely Reduce the Number of Children in Out-of-Home Care” – covers both delinquent and dependent children.
Delinquency involves juveniles who get into trouble with the law, while dependency refers to juveniles removed from their homes due to alleged abuse and neglect.
In addition to the reduction of 200 dependent children, the number of delinquent juveniles was also lowered, from 107 in November 2008 to 47 this April, Castano said.
County officials have largely credited Court of Common Pleas Judge David Lupas for the reduction in juvenile delinquent placements. Lupas has placed fewer juvenile offenders in outside facilities compared to predecessor Mark Ciavarella, who faces charges as part of the federal corruption probe. Lupas took over juvenile court from Ciavarella in May 2008.
Luzerne is among 16 Pennsylvania counties participating in the welfare department initiative and was chosen in large part because its outside placements exceeded the statewide average, state officials have said.
High-ranking state welfare official Richard Gold personally visits Luzerne County once a month to review cases with a team of county employees and providers involved in child placements, said state welfare spokesman Michael Race.
“They discuss the rationale for placement and go through cases in great detail to discuss whether each case is being handled in the best possible way and in the best interest of the child,” Race said.
Gold, deputy secretary of the welfare department’s Office of Children, Youth and Families, has publicly cited Luzerne as an example of a county that has made strides in getting children back in their homes or adopted, Race said.
“He’s been impressed with the steps Luzerne County has taken,” Race said.
Luzerne County lowered foster care placements, in part, by requiring Children and Youth caseworkers to use a more in-depth safety assessment to determine if children should be removed from homes due to suspected abuse or neglect, said county Human Services Director Joe DeVizia.
The county has also worked with counseling agencies to provide more intensive family therapy, he said.
Parental substance abuse is still a “major issue” preventing children from returning home, DeVizia said, estimating that more than 300 children are stuck in placement solely because their parents must obtain treatment for drug and alcohol addictions.
“We’re really trying to give parents the tools to get their kids home,” he said.
The county is also participating in the Supreme Court’s “Permanency Practice Initiative,” which was created by state Supreme Court Justice Max Baer.
The number of dependant children in foster care and institutions statewide has gone from 21,500 three years ago to 15,700 around the start of this year, thanks largely to the program, Baer said Friday.
County judicial systems were operating in bubbles throughout the state, unaware of proven strategies to keep or return children to their homes are get them into alternative permanent homes faster.
“It’s not fair to the children. We take them in for physical safety and ruin their lives. All over the United States there was a serious recognition that the number of kids in foster care was a terrible problem,” he said.
Sandy Moore, who oversees the permanency initiative through the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, said Friday that Luzerne and other participating counties are using the following techniques:
• Search engines to help locate relatives who may want to take care of children if they must be removed from a home.
• Meetings of people close to a child removed from a home – parents, relatives, a pastor, a coach – to come up with a recommended plan to care for that child. The team’s feedback is recommended to the judge overseeing the child’s placement. In the past Children and Youth agencies came up with these plans, usually without feedback from people close to the child, Moore said.
• Training for providers who are involved with Children and Youth cases on how to recognize positive qualities of clients in the system, rather than dwelling mostly on their shortcomings.
• Court reviews of cases held every 90 days instead of the six months required by law.
• Periodic roundtables to identify barriers that keep children in foster care and discuss solutions.
Moore said the 90-day reviews have had a dramatic impact because it forces the court and all parties involved in the case to “keep on track.”
Keeping or returning children to their home is always the main goal, Moore said.
“When that is not possible, the next option is to get children to another safe, loving permanent home,” Moore said. “One of our mantras is that no child should grow up in foster care.”
Jennifer Learn-Andes, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 831-7333.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Director_defends_agency_06-04-2010.html
Director defends agency
Frank Castano says Children and Youth does not focus on foster care.
By Jennifer Learn-Andes jandes@timesleader.com
Luzerne County Reporter
Luzerne County Children and Youth Director Frank Castano said an implication that the county is trying to keep kids in foster care is false because both the county and state have been focusing heavily on getting children back in their homes or adopted.
Castano said the statistics don’t lie.
There were 733 children removed from their homes due to alleged neglect or abuse in the county in November 2008. As of April 30 this year, there were 533.
Statements made by local attorney Jim Hayward this week created the impression that the county is unnecessarily placing children in foster care.
Hayward, who plans to file a federal lawsuit on behalf of parents who had children removed from their homes, said Friday that the statistics are irrelevant to him because he has many examples of parents with children who languished in foster care for no reason.
“I have one client who had a child who was placed in 17 different foster homes,” Hayward said.
County officials say the reduction in foster care placements stems largely from the county’s participation in two initiatives aimed at preventing children from getting bounced around in foster care and institutions.
As part of one of these programs, run by the state Department of Public Welfare, the county was challenged in 2008 to reduce outside placements 20 percent by the end of 2010.
The county has already surpassed that goal, with a reduction of roughly 31 percent.
This program – the “National Governors’ Association Initiative to Safely Reduce the Number of Children in Out-of-Home Care” – covers both delinquent and dependent children.
Delinquency involves juveniles who get into trouble with the law, while dependency refers to juveniles removed from their homes due to alleged abuse and neglect.
In addition to the reduction of 200 dependent children, the number of delinquent juveniles was also lowered, from 107 in November 2008 to 47 this April, Castano said.
County officials have largely credited Court of Common Pleas Judge David Lupas for the reduction in juvenile delinquent placements. Lupas has placed fewer juvenile offenders in outside facilities compared to predecessor Mark Ciavarella, who faces charges as part of the federal corruption probe. Lupas took over juvenile court from Ciavarella in May 2008.
Luzerne is among 16 Pennsylvania counties participating in the welfare department initiative and was chosen in large part because its outside placements exceeded the statewide average, state officials have said.
High-ranking state welfare official Richard Gold personally visits Luzerne County once a month to review cases with a team of county employees and providers involved in child placements, said state welfare spokesman Michael Race.
“They discuss the rationale for placement and go through cases in great detail to discuss whether each case is being handled in the best possible way and in the best interest of the child,” Race said.
Gold, deputy secretary of the welfare department’s Office of Children, Youth and Families, has publicly cited Luzerne as an example of a county that has made strides in getting children back in their homes or adopted, Race said.
“He’s been impressed with the steps Luzerne County has taken,” Race said.
Luzerne County lowered foster care placements, in part, by requiring Children and Youth caseworkers to use a more in-depth safety assessment to determine if children should be removed from homes due to suspected abuse or neglect, said county Human Services Director Joe DeVizia.
The county has also worked with counseling agencies to provide more intensive family therapy, he said.
Parental substance abuse is still a “major issue” preventing children from returning home, DeVizia said, estimating that more than 300 children are stuck in placement solely because their parents must obtain treatment for drug and alcohol addictions.
“We’re really trying to give parents the tools to get their kids home,” he said.
The county is also participating in the Supreme Court’s “Permanency Practice Initiative,” which was created by state Supreme Court Justice Max Baer.
The number of dependant children in foster care and institutions statewide has gone from 21,500 three years ago to 15,700 around the start of this year, thanks largely to the program, Baer said Friday.
County judicial systems were operating in bubbles throughout the state, unaware of proven strategies to keep or return children to their homes are get them into alternative permanent homes faster.
“It’s not fair to the children. We take them in for physical safety and ruin their lives. All over the United States there was a serious recognition that the number of kids in foster care was a terrible problem,” he said.
Sandy Moore, who oversees the permanency initiative through the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, said Friday that Luzerne and other participating counties are using the following techniques:
• Search engines to help locate relatives who may want to take care of children if they must be removed from a home.
• Meetings of people close to a child removed from a home – parents, relatives, a pastor, a coach – to come up with a recommended plan to care for that child. The team’s feedback is recommended to the judge overseeing the child’s placement. In the past Children and Youth agencies came up with these plans, usually without feedback from people close to the child, Moore said.
• Training for providers who are involved with Children and Youth cases on how to recognize positive qualities of clients in the system, rather than dwelling mostly on their shortcomings.
• Court reviews of cases held every 90 days instead of the six months required by law.
• Periodic roundtables to identify barriers that keep children in foster care and discuss solutions.
Moore said the 90-day reviews have had a dramatic impact because it forces the court and all parties involved in the case to “keep on track.”
Keeping or returning children to their home is always the main goal, Moore said.
“When that is not possible, the next option is to get children to another safe, loving permanent home,” Moore said. “One of our mantras is that no child should grow up in foster care.”
Jennifer Learn-Andes, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 831-7333.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Director_defends_agency_06-04-2010.html
Friday, June 4, 2010
WHEN CPS FINISHES WITH YOU, WHERE ARE YOU?
Free the FLDS Children - AKA The Freedom Liberty Defenders Society
Defending Due Process, Religious Liberty, Human Rights, Constitutional Rights, and Freedom for the FLDS Community and All Of Us!
WHEN CPS FINISHES WITH YOU, WHERE ARE YOU?
By Bill Medvecky
June 4, 2010 – 12:52 pm
Somehow CPS and CASA have convinced themselves they are the saviors of abuse and neglected children.
Once they get through making as much money as they can with them, this is what those same children have to look forward to. With a record like this, why are they not in prison?
Grim Statistics
HOMELESSNESS:
Covenant House reports that 50% of adolescents aging out of foster care and juvenile justice systems will be homeless within 6 months because they are unprepared to live independently, have limited education, and no social support.
EDUCATION:
Only 54% of aged-out foster kids receive a highschool diploma.
70% of foster kids WANT to attend college….but only 3% of aged-out foster kids goto college and less than 1/2 of them ever graduate—–(In comparison, over 70% of high school students attend college and 65-70% of those graduate!)
UNEMPLOYMENT:
Over 50% of aged-out foster kids are unemployed —-(Compared with 14.2% of general youth aged 14 to 24.)
Over 30% are receiving welfare assistance.
EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS:
It is estimated that as many as 80% of kids in foster care have emotional and behavioral problems.
A study by the Department of Health and Human Services (2005) evaluating care of foster children stated that: there was a sheer lack of mental health services for children, mental health assessments were not conducted adequately or timely, and that there is a lack of consistency in providing preventative services for children. (HHS. 2005. “General Findings from the Federal Child and Family Services Review.”)
Even former foster children are twice as likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Iraq war veterans, according to the 2005 Northwest Foster Care Alumni study.
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PRISON AND PREGNANCY
Crime also factors in.— 25% of emancipated youth were incarcerated within a two year period of leaving a foster care environment
40% of women reported having been pregnant at least one time in the 18-24 months since leaving foster care.
Just a couple years ago…..
A statewide survey by the Florida Department of Children & Families released in 2007 found that a majority of 17-year-olds in its custody either believe they lack, or actually are lacking, the necessary skills and services needed to live on their own at 18.
Most of the youths surveyed said they had no bank account and no plan for developing skills beyond high school. Fewer than half, or 45 percent, were performing at or above their grade level. Nearly a third had been arrested at least once in the past year.
http://www.flds.ws/
Defending Due Process, Religious Liberty, Human Rights, Constitutional Rights, and Freedom for the FLDS Community and All Of Us!
WHEN CPS FINISHES WITH YOU, WHERE ARE YOU?
By Bill Medvecky
June 4, 2010 – 12:52 pm
Somehow CPS and CASA have convinced themselves they are the saviors of abuse and neglected children.
Once they get through making as much money as they can with them, this is what those same children have to look forward to. With a record like this, why are they not in prison?
Grim Statistics
HOMELESSNESS:
Covenant House reports that 50% of adolescents aging out of foster care and juvenile justice systems will be homeless within 6 months because they are unprepared to live independently, have limited education, and no social support.
EDUCATION:
Only 54% of aged-out foster kids receive a highschool diploma.
70% of foster kids WANT to attend college….but only 3% of aged-out foster kids goto college and less than 1/2 of them ever graduate—–(In comparison, over 70% of high school students attend college and 65-70% of those graduate!)
UNEMPLOYMENT:
Over 50% of aged-out foster kids are unemployed —-(Compared with 14.2% of general youth aged 14 to 24.)
Over 30% are receiving welfare assistance.
EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS:
It is estimated that as many as 80% of kids in foster care have emotional and behavioral problems.
A study by the Department of Health and Human Services (2005) evaluating care of foster children stated that: there was a sheer lack of mental health services for children, mental health assessments were not conducted adequately or timely, and that there is a lack of consistency in providing preventative services for children. (HHS. 2005. “General Findings from the Federal Child and Family Services Review.”)
Even former foster children are twice as likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Iraq war veterans, according to the 2005 Northwest Foster Care Alumni study.
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.
PRISON AND PREGNANCY
Crime also factors in.— 25% of emancipated youth were incarcerated within a two year period of leaving a foster care environment
40% of women reported having been pregnant at least one time in the 18-24 months since leaving foster care.
Just a couple years ago…..
A statewide survey by the Florida Department of Children & Families released in 2007 found that a majority of 17-year-olds in its custody either believe they lack, or actually are lacking, the necessary skills and services needed to live on their own at 18.
Most of the youths surveyed said they had no bank account and no plan for developing skills beyond high school. Fewer than half, or 45 percent, were performing at or above their grade level. Nearly a third had been arrested at least once in the past year.
http://www.flds.ws/
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