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Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness – DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families (opinion)
November 29, 2010

From Massachusetts News:

Child “protection” is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it.

The money goes to tens of thousands of a) state employees, b) collateral professionals, such as lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and c) DSS contracted vendors such as counselors, therapists, more “evaluators”, junk psychologists, residential facilities, foster parents, adoptive parents, MSPCC, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, YMCA, etc. This newspaper is not big enough to list all of the people in this state who have a job, draw a paycheck, or make their profits off the kids in DSS custody.

In this article I explain the financial infrastructure that provides the motivation for DSS to take people’s children – and not give them back. …

Are drug companies too eager to medicate children?

Are drug companies too eager to medicate children? | citizen-times.com | Asheville Citizen-Times: "It was disturbing to read about the dramatic increase in diagnosed cases of ADHD in N.C. between 2003 and 2007 (“Cases of ADHD rocket in state,” AC-T, Nov. 20). This huge increase in such a short time frame seems inexplicable. In the mid-1990s, there was an explosion in the number of people diagnosed with ADHD once adults were included and the inattentive type of ADHD recognized. Expansion in diagnostic criteria and several popular books like “Driven to Distraction” and “Out of the Fog” increased public awareness of this disorder."

Lawsuit against Deval Patrick, Health and Human Services secretary, Department of Children and Families commissioner takes aim at foster care system | masslive.com

Lawsuit against Deval Patrick, Health and Human Services secretary, Department of Children and Families commissioner takes aim at foster care system | masslive.com: "SPRINGFIELD - The state’s foster care system is a wrenching cycle of neglect, abuse and mismanagement for many children, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.

A New York-based child welfare advocacy group and a Boston law firm are suing Gov. Deval L. Patrick, Health and Human Services Secretary Judyann Bigby and Angelo McClain, the commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, on behalf of six children who allegedly suffered a host of horrors while in state custody."

Types of Hearings Involving Child Protective Services (CPS) | Mr Custody Coach

Types of Hearings Involving Child Protective Services (CPS) | Mr Custody Coach: "The child has been removed from your home and you’re in a panic. Remember to request an attorney of both CPS (child protective services) and the court. Even if you cannot afford an attorney, the court is required to provide one for you in cases involving the removal of a child after an investigation by child protective services."

Reasonable Efforts to Preserve or Reunify Families and Achieve Permanency for Children

Reasonable Efforts to Preserve or Reunify Families and Achieve Permanency for Children: "Series: State Statutes
Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway
Year Published: 2009
Current Through July 2009

You may wish to review this introductory text to better understand the information contained in your State's statute. To see how your State addresses this issue, visit the State Statutes Search.

Reasonable efforts refer to activities of State social services agencies that aim to provide the assistance and services needed to preserve and reunify families."

Statute of Limitations - Tolling The Statute - Time, Action, Tolled, Debt, Disability, and Period

Statute of Limitations - Tolling The Statute - Time, Action, Tolled, Debt, Disability, and Period: "Statutes of limitations are designed to aid defendants. A plaintiff, however, can prevent the dismissal of his action for untimeliness by seeking to toll the statute. When the statute is tolled, the running of the time period is suspended until some event specified by law takes place. Tolling provisions benefit a plaintiff by extending the time period in which he is permitted to bring suit."

Adoption process in Oklahoma merits review | NewsOK.com

Adoption process in Oklahoma merits review | NewsOK.com: "A 2006 grand jury report revealing a pay-to-play adoption system came as a shock to many Oklahomans but not so much to those who knew the system best. Babies were all but traded for cars, televisions and vacations."