Note: Interesting and Enlightening Post
While I would love to jump on the bandwagon with unhappygrammy's assessment of whether or not DCYF = Child Protective Services in New Hampshire is really changing, as shown in this site's article "changing for the better".
The source she is referring to, is put out by N.H. DCYF which is extremely good with their rhetoric of "we are doing it for the greater good" and all accounts show that the figures presented under the direction of Maggie Bishop are not just misleading, they are utterly false. Statistics can be manipulated and the variables are huge; the report is indicative of not recent action but activity over the history of this state agency's existence since 1979.
"In 1835, the Humane Society founded the National Federation of Child Rescue agencies to investigate child maltreatment. In the late-19th century, private child protection agencies – modeled after existing animal protection organizations – developed to investigate reports of child maltreatment, present cases in court and advocate for child welfare legislation." Pecora et al. (1992), pp. 230-31; Petr (1998), p. 126.
Scary right? In 1944, while Hitler was committing unspeakable human experiments while exterminating an entire race, the US not having stepped up sooner to these offenses may have been, in part, due to the fact that the United States was conducting their own experiments. These experiments were practiced on our most vulnerable citizens, our children. Children taken from parents or due to the depression families hoped they might be better cared for by their government, in foster care, after all FDR was to be trusted with all those "new deals"; but like his Manhattan project the Atomic Bomb and so many other scientific studies he allowed on humans his own American Citizens; we may soon find that the similarities between Hitler and FDR, do not end like so many historians have depicted.
