Texas CPS Investigator hits the nail on the head

EXCLUSIVE: Westchester mom who tried to cut adopted daughter out of $250M estate

EXCLUSIVE: Westchester mom who tried to cut adopted daughter out of $250M estate accuses ex's groundskeeping company of $3M ripoff - NY Daily News:

Mega-millionaire Christine Svenningsen, who gave up the daughter she adopted from China and then tried to cut the young girl out of her deceased husband's $250 million estate, claims in a suit that the company overcharged her for work at her many mansions and islands.

Former Child Protective Services Caseworker: ‘I’ll be blunt: this is insane.”

Former Child Protective Services Caseworker: ‘I’ll be blunt: this is insane.”:

My last couple of posts have touched on issues relating to children’s welfare and safety, and the issue of what role child protective agencies should play in that. Here’s another fine piece by Conor Friedersdorf, although in truth, it’s less his work than that of the three people he called on to comment on their experiences with CPS (The Atlantic, 7/24/14). Sometimes it’s best to just allow others to speak and listen to them when they do and, to Friedersdorf’s credit, he does just that in a sensible and balanced way. A former CPS worker, a woman who credits CPS for her removal from her family and a father who was abused by the child protection system were Friedersdorf’s choices to speak out about what to do when children may, or may not be, at risk.

Special Report on CPS Sponsored Child Abductions: CPS Insiders Blow the Whistle

Special Report on CPS Sponsored Child Abductions: CPS Insiders Blow the Whistle | Dave Hodges – The Common Sense Show:

I am presently in touch with two former CPS agents, one senior analyst for a war college and two mainstream publications who are investigating many of the same allegations that I am going to bring forth in the next two articles. For now, I am not publishing names, however, this may soon change and names and exact positions may indeed be identified.

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Child Policy - Asfa - An Assault On Family Preservation | Failure To Protect

Child Policy - Asfa - An Assault On Family Preservation | Failure To Protect | FRONTLINE | PBS:

The New Federal Adoption Law

It is often said that American child welfare policy operates like a pendulum. It swings from expressing the predominant objective of keeping troubled families together to making protection of children from parental harm its top priority. Family preservation and child safety are treated as two opposing ends of the spectrum of child welfare concerns. These shifts have not been based on any real changes in rates of child maltreatment. They are often responses to highly publicized incidents of abuse by parents or by the system and to the political currents surrounding child welfare debates. "Watching federal policy develop in the field of child abuse and neglect over the past two decades has been like watching the sunrise in Barrow, Alaska in late November!" proclaimed one expert. "Federal and state political action over the last several decades could be characterized as being symbolic rather than substantive, reactive and punitive rather than proactive and supportive (of either children or adults)."2

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VT. Attorney General Has Ethics!

DMVC Productions = Results : VT. Attorney General Has Ethics!:

"In testimony before a committee looking at child protection Tuesday, Sorrell asked legislators to take a hard look at transparency within family court to determine which statutes protect privacy and which merely obstruct justice." click on paragraph to read the story

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Foster father allegedly using drugs while child died in hot car

Foster father allegedly using drugs while child died in hot car | KFOR.com:

WICHITA, Kan. – The foster father charged with first degree felony murder in the hot car death of his 10-month-old foster daughter had bought and used marijuana the same day the baby died, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney.