Catholic Charities and Forced Adoptions

All over the web you can find stories about forced adoptions by Catholic Charities. They just recently started apologizing to all of those children and their families separated by forced adoption's of yesteryear.
Well what about the forced adoption's of children today that Catholic Charities is responsible for? They may not be taking newborns from their Mother's at birth as they did in the past, but they are still responsible for many forced adoptions Nationwide. Maybe even worldwide.
St. Charles Children's Home in Rochester, NH is run by Catholic Charities. In the NH DCYF Statewide Assessment's, St. Charles boast's of the services they provide to pre-adoptive families. Here is the excerpt:
An innovative approach for increasing successful permanent placement opportunities for children 
in care has been designed by St. Charles Children‘s Home, a licensed residential provider with 
DCYF. The St. Charles program is open to families of pre and post-adopted children through 
DCYF. Families have the opportunity to stay at St. Charles Children‘s Home for an intensive 2-
½ day overnight on weekends with staff assistance to learn to help their children set behavioral 
goals, explore other methods of parenting and receive support through difficult behavioral issues. 

Now what do they do for REAL families?
http://www.stcharleshome.org/services.html

    Does Austin's sadness show due to loss of his own family at St. Charles?

                                                       Drugged and alone                         

                                        Underweight and Forced to Run

These pictures were all taken at St. Charles while Austin was held captive by the State of NH. He's clearly NOT the happy little boy we once knew!

The home also provides professional help and advocacy for children and parents.

It is the goal of the Home to help in the rehabilitation of the family unit first by helping the children gain new behavioral skills and secondly by helping parents build on their parenting resources.

Think again. St. Charles does nothing for the parents of the children placed there by NH DCYF. In fact, a sign in register sit's in the hallway of St. Charles, where parent's sign in when they go to visit their children. Each child has their own section in the register, filled with the names of people recruited by St. Charles for the anticipated "forced" adoption of their children.

Don't get me wrong. I and my family are Catholic and I know Catholic Charities helps families. But facilitating adoptions doesn't help families as far as I'm concerned. And yes, St. Charles facilitated the adoption of my grandson Austin, which is why I can no longer bring myself to attend the Catholic Church. I believe in God and everything he stands for, but I don't believe St. Charles is doing God's work. God would never split up families and facilitate the adoption of these children. So yes, Catholic Charities still practices forced adoptions,on children that WANT to go home to their REAL families!

NH DCYF Statewide Assessments 2010 Removed

It has just come to my attention that the NH DCYF Statewide Assessment's for 2010 has been removed from the Internet link I provided. Could that have anything to do with my recent interview with Kevin Avard on Speak Up, where I provided the Assessment information to all interested parties? I'm sure it did. But that's okay, because I downloaded it before it disappeared. I guess DCYF didn't want anyone to see their failures. For your enjoyment I will provide the Assessment again! This one isn't the same one, but it's all can can find at this time.It's under another link:
http://fosteringcourtimprovement.org/CFSR/CFSR2Reports/NH/Statewideassessment2ndRoundCFSR.pdf

If anyone would like the Assessment I provided that has disappeared, let me know and I will e-mail it to you. The Assessment is too big to post on my blog.

Enjoy!

Corruption Risk in New Hampshire - State Integrity Investigation

Corruption Risk in New Hampshire - State Integrity Investigation:

Rank Among 50 States: 35th

Overall grade:

D

Click a category to see detailed scores and notes.

Public Access to Information F view	Political Financing D view
Executive Accountability B- view	Legislative Accountability C- view
Judicial Accountability B- view	State Budget Processes B+ view
State Civil Service Management C- view	Procurement C view
Internal Auditing A view	Lobbying Disclosure D+ view
State Pension Fund Management C+ view	Ethics Enforcement Agencies F view
State Insurance Commissions B+ view	Redistricting F view

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State Integrity Investigation-What's Your State's Grade?

State Integrity Investigation:

Open records laws with hundreds of exemptions. Budget decisions made behind closed doors. Ethics panels that haven’t met in years.

Those are among the examples of corruption risk we found in the State Integrity Investigation, an unprecedented examination of America’s state capitols. The bottom line? Not a single state earned an A grade in the year-long investigation. Half the states earned D’s or F’s. Find out what your state is doing right and wrong.  See your state’s report card.

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Small Savings on the Backs of Foster Children

Small Savings on the Backs of Foster Children - NYTimes.com:

In 1853, Charles Loring Brace, a patrician reformer, devised a plan to remediate the circumstances of New York City’s 30,000 homeless children, many of whom passed their days as desperate salesmen hawking rags and newspapers, and who had acquired the label, absent a world of ethnic sensitivities, of “street Arabs.” Founding theChildren’s Aid Society, Brace controversially arranged for abandoned children to be sent, by rail, to farm families — “kind, Christian homes in the country” as he put it, typically where they would work. By 1929, approximately 100,000 city children had been relocated across the country, often with no sense of where they would be going, in what became known as the Orphan Train movement and was the precursor to the American foster care system.

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Drug issues propel rise in foster care in Maine

Drug issues propel rise in foster care in Maine | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram:

As more children land in state custody, Health and Human Services officials say they need extra funding.

AUGUSTA – Substance abuse problems among young parents have driven up the number of children in foster homes by 35 percent over projections, prompting state human services officials to seek an extra $4.2 million from the Legislature.

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Terry Achane baby: Soldier wins 22-month custody battle and finally reunited with daughter

Terry Achane baby: Soldier wins 22-month custody battle and finally reunited with daughter | Mail Online:

It's about time. The baby should have been given to her father a long time ago!

Terry Achane returned from work to find his wife had given newborn daughter away for adoption

The girl spent 22 months with the Frei family, who say they are devastated at losing the child

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