Helena, Mont., Mulls Kindergarten Sex Ed

Helena, Mont., Mulls Kindergarten Sex Ed
July 14, 2010 - 6:45 AM | by: Alicia Acuna
The Helena Public Schools Board of trustees faced a large and emotionally charged crowd at its meeting Tuesday night as it considers whether to begin its sexual education curriculum in kindergarten.

Members of the community were invited to give public comment on the proposed K-12 Health Enhancement Comprehensive Curriculum before the nine-member board votes next month.

Click here to view the proposed curriculum.

The Montana Family Foundation is fighting the proposed changes, telling Fox News its biggest concern is teaching graphic sexual detail to kids who are not emotionally able to process or comprehend it. If the changes pass, kids as young as 5 will begin to learn medically accurate names for a number of both male and female "private parts."

According to the draft proposal, beginning in kindergarten, school nurses will teach students proper terms such as "nipple, breast, penis, scrotum and uterus." And once they are promoted to first grade, children will learn that sexual relations could happen between two men or two women. By the time students are 10 years old, instruction will include the various ways people can have intercourse, be it vaginally, orally or through "anal penetration," according to the proposal.

When the plan was announced in June it hit like a shock wave to this city of 29,000 people.

"As educators and as parents and as communities we need to be more proactive in helping inform our students at an appropriate age what the risk factors are associated with their own behaviors so that they can make better decisions about their well-being," Dr. Bruce Messinger, the Superintendent of Helena Public Schools, told Fox News.

Jeff Laszloffy of the Montana Family Foundation disagreed, saying: "The problem is they think it would be age appropriate to teach different sexual positions and different sexual variations to ten-year-olds"

A similar measure failed in the Montana legislature last year.

Messinger said parents will be able to have their kids opt-out, but Laszloffy said teachers want to have the same option.

"I think the reason it is such a concern is it tramples parental rights, it places government squarely between parents and their children," Laszloffy said.

Dr. Messinger said that this is a work in progress and that the final version, if and when it passes, will take two to three years to implement.



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CPS Corrupt in [town] [county] [state] (How about everywhere!)

AFRA Editorials
By Leonard Henderson

July 13, 2010

CPS Corrupt in [town] [county] [state]

Anybody who reads my editorials might have gathered that I get many story ideas from the search criteria people were looking for according to the AFRa webcounter.

One item that shows up often is people looking for specific information about how Children's Protective Services (CPS) conducts themselves in their local area.

I think what the deal is, somehow the Dumb Masses are so thoroughly brainwashed about CPS being a good thing- that CPS exists to PROTECT "the most vulnerable segment of our population" (kids), and to HELP families in distress deal with problems.

And then, when one of the Dumb Masses gets personally involved with their local CPS, the lights come on.


WOW! THIS CPS AGENT IS-

[ ]insane
[ ]corrupt
[ ]pathological liar
[ ]communist useful idiot
[ ]all of the above

The new CPS "services consumer" might talk with others in the agency or complain to other authorities in the area.

In short order, the new CPS victim determines that something is rotten. The new CPS victim might exclaim something along the line of "That's not what America is supposed to be!"

Well I have some news for you.

It's not just a problem in your town, county or state.

Or COUNTRY for that matter.

CPS is the same identical thing all over the world. Wherever there is a CPS agency, they are the same, identical thing.

If you are thinking of "conspiracy theories", the Communist Manifesto of 1848 is a GOOD PLACE TO START.

And then, there's THIS-

Tuesday February 3, 2009
United Nations Population Fund Leader Says Family Breakdown is a Triumph for Human Rights
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

MEXICO CITY, February 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A leader in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has declared that the breakdown of traditional families, far from being a “crisis,” is actually a triumph for human rights.

Speaking at a colloquium held last month at Colegio Mexico in Mexico City, UNFPA representative Arie Hoekman denounced the idea that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births represent a social crisis, claiming that they represent instead the triumph of “human rights” against “patriarchy.”

"In the eyes of conservative forces, these changes mean that the family is in crisis," he said. "In crisis? More than a crisis, we are in the presence of a weakening of the patriarchal structure, as a result of the disappearance of the economic base that sustains it and because of the rise of new values centered in the recognition of fundamental human rights." FULL STORY

Connect that statement with the statement in the Communist Manifesto of 1848-

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.
On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among proletarians, and in public prostitution.

The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.

Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.

Does that clear things up for you about who and what you are dealing with at CPS?

It's not merely one corrupt, evil, insane CPS agent in your hometown, county or state.

"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election... It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!" -George W. Malone (1890-1961) U.S. Senator (Nevada) 1957 Source: speaking before Congress -He said that 50 years ago.

"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.''
- J. Edgar Hoover Source: speaking of communism (1956)

"Communists are to be ready to cheat, lie, perjure and do everything possible to gain their ends." -Vladimir Lenin

COMMENT on this story

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." --Aesop (c. 550 B.C.) legendary Greek fabulist

If CPS hasn't attacked YOUR FAMILY yet, see If you are ever approached by anyone from social services.... and WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU

Learn as much as you can, as fast as you can at How To Fight CPS

Get YOUR VERSION OF HISTORY ON THE RECORD with your Sworn Declaration

Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights Association
http://familyrights.us
"Until Every Child Comes Home" ©
"The Voice of America's Families" ©

I am not a lawyer and I do not pretend to give legal advice. If you need legal advice, see AFRA's Lawyer Friends who certainly are not pretenders (http://familyrights.us/info/law) I merely relate the things I learned in the past that seemed to work in my own case or things that others have related to me that worked in their cases. I provide information for free and do not expect to receive any form of payment or reward on this side of heaven. Therefore, DO NOT rely on this information as legal advice. Real Legal advice would come from a real lawyer who hates CPS and prepares a VIGOROUS DEFENSE against a negative (proving nothing happened) instead of talking you into a plea bargain (http://familyrights.us/bin/The_Problem_with_Plea_Bargaining.htm)


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Pro Se Representation is Up, Survey Says

JULY 12, 2010
Pro Se Representation is Up, Survey Says

A survey of state judges by the American Bar Association indicates that fewer parties in civil cases are being represented by lawyers, and in the opinion of most of the judges, the outcomes of those cases are worse for it.

The Coalition for Justice, an arm of the ABA that focuses on access to the courts, conducted the survey in an attempt to measure the impact of the economic recession. The results, released today, echo warnings from the Brennan Center for Justice and other groups who say the nation’s judicial systems are increasingly overburdened.

In one question, judges were asked to compare representation in their courts in 2009 to representation in previous years. Sixty percent of judges said fewer parties had lawyers, while 3 percent said representation had increased. The rest said they saw no change.

Asked how the lack of representation affects the parties, 62 percent of all judges said the outcomes are worse for a litigant when he represents himself, while 3 percent said they were better. The rest said there was no impact. The judges who saw worse outcomes said the most common problems for pro se litigants are failure to present necessary evidence, procedural errors, ineffective witness examination, and failure to object to evidence properly.

At a news conference, ABA President Carolyn Lamm said that lack of representation causes problems for the rest of the court system by, among other things, consuming more of judges’ time. “Parties not being represented in fact delays the proceedings of the court,” Lamm said. “They slow down the ability of the court to hear cases.”

There were 986 state judges who completed the survey, out of an estimated potential pool of 20,400 nationwide, according to the ABA.

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Foster system is destroying children

Foster system is destroying children

By: BARBARA HOLLINGSWORTH
Local Opinion Editor
May 11, 2009
Judith Meltzer, the court-appointed monitor for D.C.’s famously horrible foster care system, recently reported that “progress in reducing the length of stay in foster care and ensuring a permanent home for every child has been stalled.” Wonderful.

What to know what the future is likely to hold for 600 children stuck in the Children and Family Services Agency’s Dickensian foster care system for five years or more? Ask Ron Huber. The Mount Airy resident spent most of his childhood in foster care, and recently published a book describing its horrors.

The retired Army staff sergeant and current GS-14 says he was “scarred for life” by the treatment he received at the hands of foster parents after he and two of his four brothers were taken away from their neglectful, alcoholic mother at the tender ages of 4, 3 and 2. Another brother died from a rat bite, and the youngest was adopted out.

The three boys put into foster care in Rockford, Illinois were constantly beaten, emotionally abused and forced to work on “slave farms.” Huber’s childhood memories include being forced to kneel on bricks, being belittled for poor grades, and watching one foster mother force his five-year-old brother’s head into a toilet because he wet the bed.

“I never saw any love during my whole childhood,” Huber told me. In “Facing the World Without Love,” he finally comes to terms with his loss, including a disastrous first marriage to a German woman who married him just so she could come to the U.S. “I married my foster mother,” he confesses. Happily married for the second time, he still vividly recalls the stinging tears he shed whenever he saw a parent hug their child.

The pain was even worse than what he suffered during the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam. “It’s just so prolonged,” he explained. “Nobody cares about you. And foster care is just as bad now as it was back then.”

Back then, many abused children were taken in by people who exploited them as cheap labor. Today, federal payments to states turn defenseless children into a different sort of economic asset.

But St. Louis Presiding Family Court Judge Jimmie Edwards says he’s no longer sure that terminating parental rights is the right thing to do. “There was a time when people felt that we needed to fix abuse and neglect by punishing the parent and taking away the children,” Judge Edwards told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I have the children of these parents. They’re now teenagers, and they are still in the system.” When they age out of foster care at 18, many will be emotionally crippled orphans with no families, no money, and no one to guide them into adulthood. Thanks for caring.

“On any given day, 30 percent of D.C. foster children are trapped in the worst form of foster care: group homes or institutions,” says Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. According to Meltzer’s report, CFSA is also unable to provide any data documenting its attempts to place abused and neglected children with relatives.

“Given this record, it’s hard to believe that Mayor Adrian Fenty and Attorney General Peter Nickles wouldn’t be too ashamed to even show their faces in court, much less ask to have CFSA freed from court oversight,” Wexler says.

Here’s the kicker: After five years of abject failure and embarrassing court receivership, CFSA Director Roque Gerald is starting a new program to recruit even more foster parents to destroy thousands more vulnerable D.C. children.

If this isn’t madness, I don’t know what is.

Barbara F. Hollingsworth is The Washington Examiner’s local opinion editor.



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/BarbaraHollingsworth/Foster-system-is-destroying-children-44704467.html#ixzz0tacgbGlY

Judge criticizes lack of support for struggling parents

Judge criticizes lack of support for struggling parents
Page last updated at 12:42 GMT, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:42 UK

The judge said more support is needed for parents struggling to raise children
A High Court judge has criticised the lack of help available for struggling parents who are at risk of having their children taken into care.

Mr Justice Weir made the remarks in a ruling relating to a Belfast mother who was accused of intentionally injuring her son.

He said he was often struck by the lack of "good, practical help" for parents, particularly those who did not have wider family support.

He added that in comparison, the level of help and respite provided for foster carers "seems for some reason to be very much greater."

The Family Court case concerned a woman, referred to as SM, who had three children with a man referred to as EWS.

The court heard that EWS was a heavy drinker who frequently would not get out of bed until midday and drifted in and out of the children's lives.

The judge described him as a selfish person who had "seriously and inexcusably failed" as a parent.

The two eldest children, who are now five and four, were placed into foster care in May 2007.

In February 2008 SM gave birth to her third child and was able to care for it with the help of an intensive support package.

In 2009 she asked to have her other two children returned to her.

With the help of a residential family support centre she was able to care for them but when she moved back into the community in November 2009 things went down hill.

She described how she became "more and more drained" as the support promised by EWS did not materialise.

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An outcome of permanent removal of children from their families is, too often, as much an indictment of a failed system as it is of inadequate parents

Mr Justice Weir
In December 2009 a doctor found "significant bruising" on her four-year-old son and as a result all the children were returned to foster care where they remain.

Initially the woman claimed the boy had fallen from a climbing frame but later said the injuries had been inflicted when she lost her temper and dragged him down the steps of a bunk bed.

Her account was considered by three forensic paediatricians acting on behalf of the Belfast Health Trust.

The doctors were sceptical of her account but could not definitively say what caused the injuries.

Mr Justice Weir ruled that the bunk bed explanation "more likely than that not" represented the true cause of the bruising.

He said SM had tried "very hard to succeed, virtually single-handedly, in the particularly difficult task of parenting these children."

He said that if if the children are returned to SM, as he hopes they will, she well need good, practical help.

He said people like her badly need more day to day support from people with parenting skills, probably more mature people who may have raised their own families and have learned from their own successes and mistakes.

The judge said such an approach would be more effective in the long term.

He added: "An investment in recruiting support of this type would be both effective and cost-effective in maintaining families within the community and avoiding the costly involvement of the care system.

"An outcome of permanent removal of children from their families is, too often, as much an indictment of a failed system as it is of inadequate parents."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/northern_ireland/10615484.stm

Reinstated, the foster parent struck off for allowing Muslim girl to convert to Christianity

Reinstated, the foster parent struck off for allowing Muslim girl to convert to Christianity

(This is bull! Foster stranger's are NEVER punished for their misdeed's or "Mistakes" as CPS/DCYF call's them, but the least minute mistake a biological parent makes, end's up in loss of their child!)

By JONATHAN PETRE
Last updated at 10:01 PM on 10th July 2010


Criticism: The case sparked a backlash against Maggie Atkinson, former head of Gateshead children's services
A foster parent struck off after a Muslim girl in her care converted to Christianity has won the right to be reinstated.
Gateshead Council’s decision to remove the carer from the register provoked a storm of controversy after it was highlighted by The Mail on Sunday last year.
The carer, who had looked after children for ten years and had a perfect record, was blamed for failing to ‘protect and preserve’ the girl’s Muslim faith when she was baptised, even though she was over 16 and had made up her own mind to change her religion.
Gateshead’s decision was quashed by a court in Leeds last week, prompting criticism of the former head of its children’s services, Maggie Atkinson, who is now Children’s Commissioner for England.
The foster carer, who cannot be named to preserve the anonymity of the girl, said last night that her loss of income had been ‘devastating’.
She added: ‘In addition to losing the Muslim teenager, another girl I was looking after was taken back into care. And I lost the farmhouse I rented to look after vulnerable teenagers.’
She said she was seeking damages from the council.
She added: ‘Despite my experiences, I still hope to foster again in the future. I simply enjoy helping young people.’
The carer, a devout Christian in her 50s, was asked to look after the Muslim teenager after the girl was threatened with an arranged marriage and faced violence from her family.
She said she never pressurised the girl to convert to Christianity and the council was aware that she was attending a Christian church, but her foster manager became ‘incandescent with rage’ when she was baptised.
Council officials advised the girl to reconsider her decision, and struck the carer off in November 2008.
Ms Atkinson said: ‘The decision to remove a carer would only be made if it were in the best interests of the children.
'I am sorry it had such an effect. I hope that the ruling and Gateshead’s move to reassess the situation will go some way to reversing this.’


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Grand Jury critical of foster-care system in Tulare County

Grand Jury critical of foster-care system in Tulare County
BY DAVID CASTELLON • DCASTELL@VISALIA.GANNETT.COM • JULY 13, 2010

Children in Tulare County foster homes do not undergo routine mental-health evaluation and not all get monthly visits from their caseworkers, the Tulare County Grand Jury reported this month.



In its final report for 2009-10, the Grand Jury recommended that Child Welfare Services follow its own guidelines. Those guidelines call for caseworkers to visit children in foster care every month and have all children undergo mental-health evaluation.

The Grand Jury also recommends that caseworkers make periodic, unannounced visits to foster homes and that Child Welfare Services provide the Grand Jury with access to foster-care records "to monitor the progress of social workers and ensure the health and safety of children in foster care."

No investigation of the county's foster-care program had previously been conducted by the Grand Jury, officials said.

According to the report, the just-completed investigation stemmed from South Valley news reports of children:


Being placed in abusive homes.

Receiving inadequate medical and mental-health care.

Having poor school attendance.

Being unprepared to cope with life outside the foster-care system.
No incidents in Tulare County were cited.

The Civil Grand Jury is appointed every year to investigate public agencies in Tulare County to determine whether they are working efficiently and within the law.

The foster-care investigation involved interviews with foster parents, Child Welfare Services workers, court-appointed advocates for foster children, court personnel and young adults who recently left the foster-care program.

Records Reviewed

Grand Jury members also reviewed some foster-care records but were denied a review of random case files, according to the report.

Grand Jury members also were not allowed to ride along with child-welfare caseworkers or attend a juvenile court hearing, the report says.

The report states that Child Welfare Services based its denials on two California Welfare and Institutions Codes: Code 827, which restricts access of records and information on minors in the justice system; and Code 10859, which involves confidentiality of information about those receiving public services.

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County Health and Human Services spokeswoman Allison Lambert said Monday that a response to the Grand Jury report is being prepared by her office, which oversees Child Welfare Services.



Health officials did not respond to a request for the number of children in the county's foster care system.

With the information the Grand Jury did receive, members came to these conclusions.


Some foster children have gone six months or more without visits by social workers.

Visits by birth parents often are traumatic for foster children, resulting in disruptive behavior.

Those leaving the foster system are given little or no instruction on how to access medical services, the Social Security system or money for education.
Program Eliminated

The report notes that California has eliminated the Independent Living Program, intended to prepare foster children to live on their own.

"The [program] was very beneficial to the success of foster children becoming productive members of society," the Grand Jury report states.

On a positive note, the Grand Jury reported that court-appointed special advocates provide effective advocacy for foster children.

http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article/20100713/NEWS01/7130314