Blame poverty, not parents

Blame poverty, not parents:

Parents these days are open to criticism from all sides. Helicopter parents deprive their children of initiative. Tiger moms are too strict. And now single and unmarried parents, mostly women, are being blamed for child abuse and neglect. 
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S.I. man arraigned on charges of raping young girls in foster care

S.I. man arraigned on charges of raping young girls in foster care   - NY Daily News:

A Staten Island man was arraigned Thursday on charges of raping three young girls who were in foster care with one of his relatives, law enforcement sources said Thursday.

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Mother Worries Over Her Son, Allegedly Violated by Youth Worker

Mother Worries Over Her Son, Allegedly Violated by Youth Worker | fox4kc.com – Kansas City news & weather from WDAF TV – FOX 4:

MARSHALL, Mo. — The mother of the boy at the center of a child sex investigation said she suspected a youth service worker was having sex with her son, but she didn’t want to believe it.


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Highest NY Appellate Court, CPS wrong? No Legal Evidence

Foster Parents; Highest NY Appellate Court, CPS wrong? - National Foster Families | Examiner.com:

As you know by now one of our jobs on behalf of foster parents is to keep our fingers on the pulse of developments, to keep you informed of changes and/or potential changes in the system.

New York’s highest Appellate court, located in Oneida County reached a decision just prior to Mothers Day, what a coincidence, this mother probably doesn’t think so. Over two years ago Macquelyn M., and her husband Christopher were accused of neglecting their two children, this court decision reverses a determination made by another judge in a lower courts. The fourth Judicial Department family court, Judge Joan E. Shkane is to be congratulated in this landmark decision, thank you for hearing the facts in this case.

Two quotes will be used in future cases are,

a). “The determinations of neglect against Jacquelyn M. and Christopher G. are not supported by legally sufficient evidence.”

 b). “Although, the father said he did take his medication, the court gave deference to the social worker's testimony over that of the father's.”

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Kessler discussing family courts

Alienating the Public's right to Integrity & Consistency

DMVC Productions = Results: Alienating the Public's right to Integrity & Consistency:

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson

NH SB 354 a bill in Concord, NH 
was initially described as Relative to the escrow fund for court facility improvements;
this article http://nhhousegop.com/house-leaders-comment-on-circuit-court-accountability-bill refer's to it as "...which provides authority to the presiding judge in each court district to have greater authority over personnel and management. This bill also gives $1.5 million to the electronic court system that is currently in the developmental stage. SB 354 passed 235 to 95." 


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Hearing explores response to complaints of abuse

Hearing explores response to complaints of abuse | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram:

In the wake of an infant’s death in Arundel, state officials want to identify weaknesses in the system.  

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