On CPS: "The progressive case for parents’ rights is worth taking seriously"

On CPS: "The progressive case for parents’ rights is worth taking seriously" - Overlawyered:

The critique of Child Protective Services agencies advanced lately by the free-range kids movement should find a readier echo on the left, writes Michelle Goldberg in The Nation. “Progressives have not, in general, seen CPS as worthy of the same suspicion as other forms of law enforcement,” yet minorities and poor persons are exposed to its scrutiny and pressure if anything more intensely. 

Woman loses lawsuit against DHHS

Woman loses lawsuit against DHHS | New Hampshire:

CONCORD — A federal court judge has ruled against a former state employee in her lawsuit against the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services that alleged her former employer put her in an “untenable position” by forcing her to choose between breast-feeding her child and retaining her job.

Documents Show a Portland Foster Care Provider Wasted $2 Million on “Lavish Expenditures”

Documents Show a Portland Foster Care Provider Wasted $2 Million on “Lavish Expenditures” - Willamette Week:

State regulators are shutting down Give Us This Day, an embattled Portland foster care agency that got $1.5 million a year from the state of Oregon to care for some of the state's most troubled children.

The UK Social Services' Disgusting And Corrupt Abductions - Amount of Children Being Taken Into Care Hugely Rising

The UK Social Services' Disgusting And Corrupt Abductions - Amount of Children Being Taken Into Care Hugely Rising AnonHQ:

Can you imagine your kids being taken away from you due to false allegations? Because you said something wrong? Because someone who lives in your neighbourhood is ‘apparently’ a rapist?

Former Lee Co. social worker indicted by Bell Co. Grand Jury on meth charge

Former Lee Co. social worker indicted by Bell Co. Grand Jury on meth charge - Middlesboro Daily News - middlesborodailynews.com:

A former Lee County, Virginia social worker has been indicted by the Bell County Grand Jury. Amanda Celeste Szemak, 38, of Middlesboro, was indicted for first-degree trafficking a controlled substance, greater than two grams of methamphetamine.

Adopted woman finds birth family through Facebook and DNA

Adopted woman finds birth family through Facebook and DNA - Olean Times Herald: News - Adopted woman finds birth family through Facebook and DNA: News:

ELLICOTTVILLE — Not every adoptees’ search for their birth parents or family is successful, but for Michelle Sischo it’s come pretty close.

Kinship Foster Care On the Rise

Kinship Foster Care On the Rise - Hartford Courant:

NEW BRITAIN — It boiled down to an emergency.

After the tragic death of her son, Sonia Levy-Reid's twin grandsons, then 3, were on the verge of entering the unpredictable foster-care system. The sister of the children's mother had been taking care of the boys. The sister called Levy-Reid one day in the late winter of 2014 and said she was ending the arrangement.