IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED in assisting with a rally on Aug 12,
2011, in front of your local family court courthouse, please contact me!!
here's the info: http://www.govabuse.org/index.html
National Family Rights Protest
“Government Abuse IS Child Abuse for Profit”
When: Friday, August 12, 2011
HERE IS THE LINK TO FIND THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF
A RALLY IN FRONT OF YOUR LOCAL FAMILY COURT
COURTHOUSE IN YOUR STATE:
http://www.govabuse.org/states/coordinators.html
ALSO, PLEASE NOTE: IF NO ONE IS LISTED TO HAVE THIS
RALLY IN YOUR COUNTY/STATE, PLEASE CONTACT ME IF
YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING IN CHARGE OF A RALLY
IN YOUR COUNTY!!
FEEL FREE TO CALL ME, OR, SEND ME AN EMAIL WITH YOUR
INTEREST.
THANKS EVERYONE!!
Lisa NJG
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
Eleanor Roosevelt
njgrandma4justice@yahoo.com
myspace.com/njgrandma4justice
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
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Single motherhood still rejected by most Americans, poll finds
Single motherhood still rejected by most Americans, poll finds
This is so true in New Hampshire. DCYF will take a child in a heartbeat from a single mother, a separated or divorced mother. Then when it's time for court, the CASA worker let's her feeling's known when she states,"She has a Mommy and Daddy now." Two faced Bitch!
By Carol Morello
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Even though most Americans have grown more comfortable with same-sex or unmarried couples raising children, they still view single mothers as detrimental to society, according to a new poll of attitudes toward the country's soaring number of nontraditional families.
THIS STORY
Hard line on single motherhood in U.S.
Judging the new family
Most types of nontraditional families are broadly accepted or at least tolerated, including same-sex couples with children, unmarried parents and childless women, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center's Social and Demographic Trends. But two decades after TV's Murphy Brown caused a public furor by having a child without a husband around, many people continue to draw the line when it comes to single motherhood.
The poll illustrates how dramatically attitudes have changed from the not-so-distant past when the typical family was a married couple with children and virtually every other kind of family was considered abnormal. Today, nuclear families make up barely one in five households in the United States, Census Bureau statistics show. And nearly four in 10 births are to unmarried women, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
"People aren't embracing these changes, but they are accepting them," said Rich Morin, a senior editor at the Pew Center and author of the report. "The days when people were made to wear a scarlet letter or were shunned after a divorce are ancient history."
The poll asked about 2,700 people for their views on seven trends in modern relationships that are upending what used to be considered the traditional family: unmarried parents raising children; gay couples raising children; single mothers; partners living together outside marriage; working mothers; interracial marriage; and women who never bear children.
The poll results suggest that Americans fall largely into three equally sized camps.
Roughly a third said the trends have no effect on society or are positive. People who had positive views of the changing family were overwhelmingly women, Hispanics and East Coast residents who rarely if ever attend religious services.
Another third considered most of the changes harmful to society. The only trends they accepted were interracial marriage and fewer women having children. They tended to be older, white Republicans who are married and religiously observant. They also were more likely to be from the Midwest or South.
The third group tended to accept all the changes except for single motherhood. Virtually all of them said the growing prevalence of mothers without male partners to help them raise children is bad for society. This group tended to be young, Democratic or independent, and more heavily minority.
Andrew Cherlin, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist who studies families, said the Pew poll underscores the widespread acceptance of two-parent families of almost any ilk.
"Working mothers are acceptable to almost everybody," he said. "Two parents who are unmarried are tolerated or acceptable. But many people, including single parents themselves, question single-parent families. There's still a strong belief that children need two parents."
This is so true in New Hampshire. DCYF will take a child in a heartbeat from a single mother, a separated or divorced mother. Then when it's time for court, the CASA worker let's her feeling's known when she states,"She has a Mommy and Daddy now." Two faced Bitch!
By Carol Morello
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Even though most Americans have grown more comfortable with same-sex or unmarried couples raising children, they still view single mothers as detrimental to society, according to a new poll of attitudes toward the country's soaring number of nontraditional families.
THIS STORY
Hard line on single motherhood in U.S.
Judging the new family
Most types of nontraditional families are broadly accepted or at least tolerated, including same-sex couples with children, unmarried parents and childless women, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center's Social and Demographic Trends. But two decades after TV's Murphy Brown caused a public furor by having a child without a husband around, many people continue to draw the line when it comes to single motherhood.
The poll illustrates how dramatically attitudes have changed from the not-so-distant past when the typical family was a married couple with children and virtually every other kind of family was considered abnormal. Today, nuclear families make up barely one in five households in the United States, Census Bureau statistics show. And nearly four in 10 births are to unmarried women, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
"People aren't embracing these changes, but they are accepting them," said Rich Morin, a senior editor at the Pew Center and author of the report. "The days when people were made to wear a scarlet letter or were shunned after a divorce are ancient history."
The poll asked about 2,700 people for their views on seven trends in modern relationships that are upending what used to be considered the traditional family: unmarried parents raising children; gay couples raising children; single mothers; partners living together outside marriage; working mothers; interracial marriage; and women who never bear children.
The poll results suggest that Americans fall largely into three equally sized camps.
Roughly a third said the trends have no effect on society or are positive. People who had positive views of the changing family were overwhelmingly women, Hispanics and East Coast residents who rarely if ever attend religious services.
Another third considered most of the changes harmful to society. The only trends they accepted were interracial marriage and fewer women having children. They tended to be older, white Republicans who are married and religiously observant. They also were more likely to be from the Midwest or South.
The third group tended to accept all the changes except for single motherhood. Virtually all of them said the growing prevalence of mothers without male partners to help them raise children is bad for society. This group tended to be young, Democratic or independent, and more heavily minority.
Andrew Cherlin, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist who studies families, said the Pew poll underscores the widespread acceptance of two-parent families of almost any ilk.
"Working mothers are acceptable to almost everybody," he said. "Two parents who are unmarried are tolerated or acceptable. But many people, including single parents themselves, question single-parent families. There's still a strong belief that children need two parents."
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Senator: DHHS Gave False Budget Information
Senator: DHHS Gave False Budget Information | wltx.com
Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Some state senators want to know why they received false information about the Department of Health and Human Services budget.
Senator Vincent Sheheen, a Democrat who represents Kershaw County says a judiciary subcommittee on government oversight spoke with the department's former director, Emma Forkner, Wednesday morning.
He says she claimed she knew the department would have a shortfall after former Governor Mark Sanford vetoed provisions for the agency.
"I think it's fair to say that the director and the staff at Health and Human Services thought that the growth rate would be higher than we were told, then the legislators were told, and the governor's office made quite clear to her that she should use the lower number so that it would look like the program wouldn't cost as much as it turned out to cost and there's a real problem with that," he said.
He gave a report to the full Senate on the meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Sheheen says legislators could have dealt with the deficit by giving enough funding or changing rules for the program to reduce costs.
"There's a real problem with providing numbers that aren't even close to accurate," he said.
Sheheen says the subcommittee has more questions and plans to interview more people to find out if the miscommunication was done on purpose or through negligence.
He also says they plan to look into the agency passing money it owed from one fiscal year into another as far back at the 2008 fiscal year.
Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Some state senators want to know why they received false information about the Department of Health and Human Services budget.
Senator Vincent Sheheen, a Democrat who represents Kershaw County says a judiciary subcommittee on government oversight spoke with the department's former director, Emma Forkner, Wednesday morning.
He says she claimed she knew the department would have a shortfall after former Governor Mark Sanford vetoed provisions for the agency.
"I think it's fair to say that the director and the staff at Health and Human Services thought that the growth rate would be higher than we were told, then the legislators were told, and the governor's office made quite clear to her that she should use the lower number so that it would look like the program wouldn't cost as much as it turned out to cost and there's a real problem with that," he said.
He gave a report to the full Senate on the meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Sheheen says legislators could have dealt with the deficit by giving enough funding or changing rules for the program to reduce costs.
"There's a real problem with providing numbers that aren't even close to accurate," he said.
Sheheen says the subcommittee has more questions and plans to interview more people to find out if the miscommunication was done on purpose or through negligence.
He also says they plan to look into the agency passing money it owed from one fiscal year into another as far back at the 2008 fiscal year.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog: Supreme Court may decide if “children’s rights” include the Fourth Amendment
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog: Supreme Court may decide if “children’s rights” include the Fourth Amendment
“SPECULATION AND HEARSAY” IS NO REASON
TO TRAUMATIZE A CHILD
For details see our special website devoted to the case, www.camretavgreene.info
What kind of a case would bring together the Southern Poverty Law Center on the left and the Family Research Council on the right? Or the Battered Women’s Resource Center and the American Coalition for Fathers and Children? How about National Advocates for Pregnant Women and the Eagle Forum? The Clinical Social Work Association and the Pacific Justice Institute?
Only a case involving rights so fundamental to the protection of children that some of the most prominent advocates on the left and the right are ready to put aside their differences to join forces.
What all these organizations are seeking is simply a guarantee that innocent children will have the same constitutional rights as suspected criminals.
In contrast, those seeking even more power for child protective services agencies say caseworkers should have the untrammeled power to pull a child out of class and question her for two hours about the most intimate aspects of her life based on no more than, and these are their own words, “speculation and hearsay.”
The U.S Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case, known as Camreta v. Greene on March 1. It’s the first major case involving the power of child protective services agencies to reach the high court in more than 21 years.
NCCPR’s volunteer vice president, Carolyn Kubitschek is representing the family at the center of the case. And we’ve built a special website to provide comprehensive information about the case: www.camretavgreene.info
There’s an overview of the case, the story of the child at its center, and links to the 18 separate “friend of the court” briefs filed by 70 organizations and experts in support of the family – including many organizations specializing in representing children in child abuse and neglect cases.
Posted by National Coalition for Child Protection Reform at 6:00 AM
“SPECULATION AND HEARSAY” IS NO REASON
TO TRAUMATIZE A CHILD
For details see our special website devoted to the case, www.camretavgreene.info
What kind of a case would bring together the Southern Poverty Law Center on the left and the Family Research Council on the right? Or the Battered Women’s Resource Center and the American Coalition for Fathers and Children? How about National Advocates for Pregnant Women and the Eagle Forum? The Clinical Social Work Association and the Pacific Justice Institute?
Only a case involving rights so fundamental to the protection of children that some of the most prominent advocates on the left and the right are ready to put aside their differences to join forces.
What all these organizations are seeking is simply a guarantee that innocent children will have the same constitutional rights as suspected criminals.
In contrast, those seeking even more power for child protective services agencies say caseworkers should have the untrammeled power to pull a child out of class and question her for two hours about the most intimate aspects of her life based on no more than, and these are their own words, “speculation and hearsay.”
The U.S Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case, known as Camreta v. Greene on March 1. It’s the first major case involving the power of child protective services agencies to reach the high court in more than 21 years.
NCCPR’s volunteer vice president, Carolyn Kubitschek is representing the family at the center of the case. And we’ve built a special website to provide comprehensive information about the case: www.camretavgreene.info
There’s an overview of the case, the story of the child at its center, and links to the 18 separate “friend of the court” briefs filed by 70 organizations and experts in support of the family – including many organizations specializing in representing children in child abuse and neglect cases.
Posted by National Coalition for Child Protection Reform at 6:00 AM
Foster parents to see folders of children
Foster parents to see folders of children
Parents who decide to adopt a child, likely have the best intentions. However, sometime the caseworker is less than honest about the child’s past. A bill passing on first round from Senator Gwen Howard of Omaha would force the case worker to show the parents the child’s file.
“To put these children in a home where we are not adequately preparing the adults to address these serious needs these children may have, it’s not fair to the child and it’s certainly not fair to these foster parents and adoptive parents.”
Howard says she knows of a story where an abused child was adopted and the new parents were not made aware. The foster parents had trouble understanding certain behaviors the child was exhibiting.
Parents who decide to adopt a child, likely have the best intentions. However, sometime the caseworker is less than honest about the child’s past. A bill passing on first round from Senator Gwen Howard of Omaha would force the case worker to show the parents the child’s file.
“To put these children in a home where we are not adequately preparing the adults to address these serious needs these children may have, it’s not fair to the child and it’s certainly not fair to these foster parents and adoptive parents.”
Howard says she knows of a story where an abused child was adopted and the new parents were not made aware. The foster parents had trouble understanding certain behaviors the child was exhibiting.
Psychiatric drugs shrink patients' brains
Psychiatric drugs shrink patients' brains | MNN - Mother Nature Network
Researchers have long known that people with schizophrenia have smaller brains by volume than the general population, especially in the "grey matter" structures of the brain which deal with memory storage and higher reasoning. But a shocking new study has revealed that the antipsychotic drugs administered to mental health patients to "treat" them may actually be partly to blame for that brain volume reduction, according to Nature.
The study could have serious implications about the appropriate use of antipsychotic drugs, as well as complicate theories about how exactly these drugs are purported to work.
The research was led by Beng Choon Ho, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of 211 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia over a 7.2-year period, with an average rate of 3 scans per patient, Ho's team found that antipsychotics explained 6.6% of the reduction in total brain volume and 1.7% of the change in total grey-matter volume.
Although the study is marred by the lack of a placebo control group (such a control would be unethical, since patients can't be deprived of the medications they may need), there are a number of facts from the study which reinforce its results nonetheless. For instance, the more antipsychotics that patients receive, the more likely they are to have a decreased amount of grey matter. The study also found that the greatest volume reduction came in those who had been recently diagnosed, meaning they had just started taking their medication.
In other words, the use of antipsychotic medication appears to be directly correlated with the advent of the brain loss.
Further corroboration for these results comes from animal studies, where there are fewer ethical considerations. For instance, one study by neuroscientist David Lewis found that healthy non-human primates given doses of antipsychotics similar to those given to humans showed brain volume reductions of around 10 percent.
"We did not expect to see this," said Ho. "We've been very careful to get it right because of the potential implications."
One such implication is that the antipsychotic drugs examined in Ho's research are helping patients by hurting them-- a paradoxical fact which ought to caution mental health officials about the real value of these drugs.
According to Lewis, the next step for researchers could be to study people with depression and bipolar disorder, too. Comparing changes in the brain volume of these patients, who are prescribed many other types of psychiatric drugs besides antipsychotics, to the changes among patients from Ho's study, could spell out just how far these concerns span.
In the meantime, Ho recommends that doctors exercise increased caution whenever prescribing antipsychotics.
"This will reinforce what I have always tried to do with my patients-- work with them in finding the lowest effective dose," he said
Researchers have long known that people with schizophrenia have smaller brains by volume than the general population, especially in the "grey matter" structures of the brain which deal with memory storage and higher reasoning. But a shocking new study has revealed that the antipsychotic drugs administered to mental health patients to "treat" them may actually be partly to blame for that brain volume reduction, according to Nature.
The study could have serious implications about the appropriate use of antipsychotic drugs, as well as complicate theories about how exactly these drugs are purported to work.
The research was led by Beng Choon Ho, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of 211 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia over a 7.2-year period, with an average rate of 3 scans per patient, Ho's team found that antipsychotics explained 6.6% of the reduction in total brain volume and 1.7% of the change in total grey-matter volume.
Although the study is marred by the lack of a placebo control group (such a control would be unethical, since patients can't be deprived of the medications they may need), there are a number of facts from the study which reinforce its results nonetheless. For instance, the more antipsychotics that patients receive, the more likely they are to have a decreased amount of grey matter. The study also found that the greatest volume reduction came in those who had been recently diagnosed, meaning they had just started taking their medication.
In other words, the use of antipsychotic medication appears to be directly correlated with the advent of the brain loss.
Further corroboration for these results comes from animal studies, where there are fewer ethical considerations. For instance, one study by neuroscientist David Lewis found that healthy non-human primates given doses of antipsychotics similar to those given to humans showed brain volume reductions of around 10 percent.
"We did not expect to see this," said Ho. "We've been very careful to get it right because of the potential implications."
One such implication is that the antipsychotic drugs examined in Ho's research are helping patients by hurting them-- a paradoxical fact which ought to caution mental health officials about the real value of these drugs.
According to Lewis, the next step for researchers could be to study people with depression and bipolar disorder, too. Comparing changes in the brain volume of these patients, who are prescribed many other types of psychiatric drugs besides antipsychotics, to the changes among patients from Ho's study, could spell out just how far these concerns span.
In the meantime, Ho recommends that doctors exercise increased caution whenever prescribing antipsychotics.
"This will reinforce what I have always tried to do with my patients-- work with them in finding the lowest effective dose," he said
Police: Body In Truck Identified As Driver's Adopted Daughter
Police: Body In Truck Identified As Driver's Daughter - West Palm Beach News Story - WPBF West Palm Beach
Adoptive Father Charged With Aggravated Child Abuse
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A body found in the back of a pest control truck on the side of Interstate 95 is the daughter of the driver who was found unconscious outside the vehicle, according to a police report.
Jorge Barahona, 53, of Miami, was charged with child abuse Wednesday. He remains hospitalized at Columbia Hospital and is scheduled to have his first court appearance on Thursday.
According to the report, Barahona admitted to traveling north on I-95 after he placed his dead daughter, Nubia, in a plastic bag, which he put in the truck. Barahona said he was accompanied by his 10-year-old son, Victor.
Photos: Timeline Of Events
Barahona said he was distraught over the death of his daughter and intended to commit suicide, according to the report. The report did not say how the girl died.
The report said he pulled over north of Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard and gave a handful of sleeping pills to his son and told him to take them so he could sleep.
Barahona told police his son was on his lap as he poured gasoline over his own head and that he intended to ignite a lighter to set himself on fire, but he couldn't do it in front of his son, the report said.
Police, however, said Barahona's injuries were not consistent with the injuries to the boy.
A pest control truck where a body was found inside remains on the side of Interstate 95 in West Palm Beach days after the driver and a 10-year-old boy were taken to hospitals.
Officials said a caller to the Department of Children and Families abuse hotline reported last week that the children were being bound with duct tape.
Barahona was found unconscious near the pest control truck Monday morning. His son was found inside the truck, apparently severely burned by a strong acid-based chemical.
Officials said both Barahona and the boy inhaled some of the chemical.
The boy was transferred from St. Mary's Medical Center to the burn unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on Wednesday, when he was listed in critical condition, with his burns getting worse and doctors unsure what chemical was used.
Hazardous materials crews working to remove the acid substance also found a body inside of a bag in the truck Monday night.
Barahona's Other 2 Children In Foster Care
Barahona's other two children were removed from their grandparents' home and placed into protective custody by the Florida Department of Children and Families on Tuesday. DCF officials said they had responded to reports of child abuse at the Barahona's house in Miami before.
During a DCF hearing Wednesday, a judge ruled that the children be placed in therapeutic foster care. It was also determined that one of the children is autistic.
The truck still remained at the crime scene along I-95 on Wednesday afternoon.
An autopsy was being conducted on the girl's body.
Adoptive Father Charged With Aggravated Child Abuse
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A body found in the back of a pest control truck on the side of Interstate 95 is the daughter of the driver who was found unconscious outside the vehicle, according to a police report.
Jorge Barahona, 53, of Miami, was charged with child abuse Wednesday. He remains hospitalized at Columbia Hospital and is scheduled to have his first court appearance on Thursday.
According to the report, Barahona admitted to traveling north on I-95 after he placed his dead daughter, Nubia, in a plastic bag, which he put in the truck. Barahona said he was accompanied by his 10-year-old son, Victor.
Photos: Timeline Of Events
Barahona said he was distraught over the death of his daughter and intended to commit suicide, according to the report. The report did not say how the girl died.
The report said he pulled over north of Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard and gave a handful of sleeping pills to his son and told him to take them so he could sleep.
Barahona told police his son was on his lap as he poured gasoline over his own head and that he intended to ignite a lighter to set himself on fire, but he couldn't do it in front of his son, the report said.
Police, however, said Barahona's injuries were not consistent with the injuries to the boy.
A pest control truck where a body was found inside remains on the side of Interstate 95 in West Palm Beach days after the driver and a 10-year-old boy were taken to hospitals.
Officials said a caller to the Department of Children and Families abuse hotline reported last week that the children were being bound with duct tape.
Barahona was found unconscious near the pest control truck Monday morning. His son was found inside the truck, apparently severely burned by a strong acid-based chemical.
Officials said both Barahona and the boy inhaled some of the chemical.
The boy was transferred from St. Mary's Medical Center to the burn unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on Wednesday, when he was listed in critical condition, with his burns getting worse and doctors unsure what chemical was used.
Hazardous materials crews working to remove the acid substance also found a body inside of a bag in the truck Monday night.
Barahona's Other 2 Children In Foster Care
Barahona's other two children were removed from their grandparents' home and placed into protective custody by the Florida Department of Children and Families on Tuesday. DCF officials said they had responded to reports of child abuse at the Barahona's house in Miami before.
During a DCF hearing Wednesday, a judge ruled that the children be placed in therapeutic foster care. It was also determined that one of the children is autistic.
The truck still remained at the crime scene along I-95 on Wednesday afternoon.
An autopsy was being conducted on the girl's body.
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