What's Wrong with CPS (Newest at the bottom)

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered; but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." -Lyndon B. Johnson

"For every social problem A caused by government program X, problem A can be solved by abolishing program X. The principle can be applied at all levels of government --federal, state and municipal. The possibilities are intriguing and should appeal to partisans of all political persuasions." -William J. Stepp

"It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him."-H. L. Mencken

"He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance". -The Declaration of Independence

"There is something bad happening to our children in family courts today that is causing them more harm than drugs, more harm than crime and even more harm than child molestation." Judge Watson L. White Superior Court Judge, Cobb County, Georgia

"No cases challenge a lawyer more than those alleging child abuse - and very few have higher stakes."-David S Marshall

"It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.  It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong."  -James Fenimore Cooper

To fully appreciate what CPS is, it's good to go back in history to see what started it all.

History of Federal Child Welfare Financing Legislation beginning in 1935

Permanent termination of parental rights has been described as "the family law equivalent of the death penalty in a criminal case" in re Smith (1991), 77 Ohio App.3d 1, 16, 601 N.E.2d 45, 54. Therefore, parents "must be afforded every procedural and substantive protection the law allows."

"No government and no court should be allowed to take a child from a parent unless there is a very, very, very good reason.  Because to have a child ripped from you, it's the same as a child dying. It's absolutely uncivilized, barbaric and devastating for any parent. It's not uncommon for these people to suffer depressive breakdowns."-- Hazel McBride, a contemporary suicide researcher and psychotherapist  CPS is COUNTING ON IT.  They use that as "evidence" for the Character Assassination.

“One is innocent until proven guilty.” Perhaps this is the bedrock of Americans’ sense of justice. Its corollary is that one should not be punished until that guilt is established. But there is nothing more punishing than the strategic but sadistic use of pain to force a confession or to gain information. Victims of torture—who tell us that they longed for death—would testify that this punishment is even worse than death. Punishment before guilt is proven must be viewed as anathema to American’s values. --January 6, 2005 Testimony of Douglas A. Johnson, Executive Director The Center for Victims of Torture

Not since the overthrow of the Weimar Republic have the leaders of a major democracy used their offices and the mass media to disseminate invective against millions of their own citizens. In fact it was Adolph Hitler who urged that “the state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people” and who explained, in the words of Rabbi Daniel Lapin, that “as long as government is perceived as working for the benefit of children, the people happily will endure almost any curtailment of liberty.” Using children to tug on our heartstrings may be not only a weakness of the sentimental. It also may be a ploy by those cynical and unscrupulous enough to exploit children for their own purposes. This is likely to be remembered as one of the most diabolical perversions of governmental power in our history, a time when we allowed children to be used and abused by fast-talking government officials and paid for it with our families, our social order and our constitutional rights.-- STEPHEN BASKERVILLE (in about 2000)

COMPREHENSIVE CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FEDERALIZE U.S. CHILDREN
By Congressman John R. Rarick, (La.) October 5, 1971
September 30 was a dark day for America. The Federal government has now been authorized to take over our children.

Twenty Years Of CAPTA (Written in 1994) The background, limitations and results of  federal and state child abuse legislation By Damon Coffman EVERY FAMILY and POLITICIAN in America SHOULD READ it!

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Most Dangerous Attack on Parents’ Rights
In the History of the United States
By Christopher J. Klicka, Esq.
and
William A. Estrada

Senator Dole on February 24, 1995, stood before the Senate and condemned the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. ..... He stated,

Mr. President, in the past several days, I have received thousands of calls from all over the country in opposition to this Convention. My office has not received one call for it. These contacts have raised many serious problems that need to be examined. They have raised questions about Articles 13, 14, and 15, which grant children the freedom of speech, thought, conscience, religion, association, and assembly. Could these articles be interpreted to limit the ability of parents to decide for themselves how best to raise their children? Should U.S. citizens be subject to some sort of international committee that enforces compliance with Article 28(2) which states: “State Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that school discipline is administered in a manner consistent with the child’s human dignity and in conformity with the present Convention?”

Under Article VI of the Constitution, Senate ratification of this Treaty would make it the supreme law of the land. Would the Convention then supersede Federal and State laws? What would the effect of the convention be on the Tenth Amendment? Is the convention merely a symbolic exercise, or will it actually require the United States to take actions? These are sincere questions from sincere people. They deserve answers ...

I also believe we in the United States have made significant progress in protecting the rights of the child through Federal, State, and local laws. These laws are better equipped to deal with the varying challenges posed by the issue of child rights. If there is one thing this election taught us, it is the need to get excessive government out of people’s lives. This applies to the Federal government, and it certainly applies to the multilateral, quasi-government that is the U.N. (Congressional Record, page S-3081).  MUST SEE FULL STORY

February 5, 2003
Need for a search warrant trips social workers
Ohio authorities not aware of Fourth Amendment protections

..."In a forceful opinion, US District Judge James G. Carr wrote: “Despite the Defendants’ exaggerated view of their powers, the Fourth Amendment applies to them, as it does to all other officers and agents of the state whose requests to enter, however benign or well-intentioned, are met by a closed door.  There is...no social worker exception to the strictures of the Fourth Amendment.  ...Any agency that expects to send its employees routinely into private homes has a fundamental obligation to ensure that those employees understand the constitutional limits on their authority.”

The caseworkers in the Walsh case admitted they had never been taught anything about the Fourth Amendment or search warrants. 

The court further ruled that the police did not have probable cause to detain, frisk, and threaten to arrest Walsh, since he was not breaking any law but merely asserting his “fundamental right to be left alone.”

See New Cases filed or decided

Foster Care vs. Keeping Families Together: The Definitive Study
July 7, 2007

NCCPR long has argued that many children now trapped in foster care would be far better off if they had remained with their own families and those families had been given the right kinds of help.

Turns out that’s not quite right.

In fact, many children now trapped in foster care would be far better off if they remained with their own families even if those families got only the typical help (which tends to be little help, wrong help, or no help) commonly offered by child welfare agencies.

That’s the message from the largest study ever undertaken to compare the impact on children of foster care versus keeping comparably maltreated children with their own families. The study was the subject of a front-page story in USA Today. 

...The buzzword in child welfare lately is “evidence-based.” What that really means is: How dare proponents of any new, innovative approach to child welfare expect to get funding if they can’t dot every i and cross every t on evaluations proving the innovation’s efficacy beyond a shadow of a doubt? Old, non-innovative programs, however, are not held to this standard. If they were, child welfare would be turned upside down by the results of this new study.

Because now, more than ever, the evidence is in. Full Story

MAKING REASONABLE EFFORTS:
A Permanent Home for Every Child 

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Articles by Nev Moore, Founder of Justice For Families, Co-Founder of AFRA

Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore, Massachusetts News
May 4, 2000

State's Child Protection Agencies Collude with Judges to Defraud Federal Government
© Nev Moore Jan. '02

---   PROBLEM STATEMENT   ---
Nev Moore
Justice for Families

GOVERNMENT RUN CHILD MARKETING SCAM
(Your Child Is A Gov't. Commodity)
Subject: How the Family System Really Works
Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
No Happy Ending for These Children
DSS and Affiliates Rewarded for Breaking Up Families
by Nev Moore, Massachusetts News

What ‘Terrible Thing’ Happened in 1997?
Feds Order States to Search for Adoptable Children
By Nev Moore
January 2002

Synopsis of child welfare fraud
~author unknown~ (Maybe Nev Moore?)

ALBRECHT. DOC 5/ 9/ 2001 2: 04 PM
Human Rights Paradigms for Remedying Governmental Child Abuse (pdf)
Lawrence G. Albrecht *

Social Services Investigations: The Removal of Children From The Home
Copyright 2001 by The Rutherford Institute, P. O. Box 7482, Charlottesville, VA 22906-7482
Reference No.: E-09
Updated: 2/ 23/ 01

2003 Adoption State Statutes Series Statutes-at-a-Glance 
Placement of Children With Relatives
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information National Adoption Information Clearinghouse

PUBLISHED IN
THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND FAMILY STUDIES
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2 (1999), pp. 123– 150
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF LAW
PARENTAL RIGHTS AND DUE PROCESS
Donald C. Hubin
Department of Philosophy
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
614-292-7914
Copyright © 1999 by Donald C. Hubin

ILLEGAL PROCEDURE
© 2004 PAUL G. STUCKLE
“Our Prisons Are Full of Innocent Persons”

A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY’S VIEW OF FALSE CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS

A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY’S VIEW OF THE FAMILY VIOLENCE INDUSTRY

MANDATORY REPORTING: CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK

Impact of Kinship Care on Behavioral Well-being
for Children in Out-of-Home Care (pdf)
David M. Rubin, MD, MSCE; Kevin J. Downes, MD; Amanda L. R. O’Reilly, MPH;
Robin Mekonnen, MSW; Xianqun Luan, MS; Russell Localio,PhD

Is There Justice in Children’s Rights?:
The Critique of Federal Family Preservation Policy (pdf)
Dorothy E. Roberts
Northwestern University School of Law and Faculty Fellow Institute for Policy Research

NATIONAL ADVISORY
ORGANIZED CRIME OPERATING IN THE CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM (pdf)
June 29, 2004 Release
This release supercedes all previous dated and undated releases.
by James Roger Brown, Director 
THE SOCIOLOGY CENTER

A Foster Parent Speaks Out
Mary Callahan

A System Out of Control:
The Epidemic of False Allegations of Child Abuse
By Armin A. Brott

How children are suffering harm by those with a duty to protect them.
By Charles Pragnell

Charles Pragnell is an independent social care management consultant, a Child/Family Advocate, and an Expert Defence Witness – Child Protection, and has given evidence to Courts in cases in England, Scotland, and New Zealand. Charles has over forty years of experience in working directly with children and young people as a social worker, a senior manager of social services, and Director of an independent organization providing services for children and families.  - Charles now lives in Australia

He has undertaken research for the National Children’s Bureau and several local authority Social Services and Education Departments and for Health Authorities. He has also made presentations at national and international conferences on child care issues (including child protection) and social policy issues, and has presented occasional lectures at Universities in England and Australia.

For over eleven years Charles was an External Examiner to social work qualifying courses at the Universities of Sunderland, Central Lancashire, and the John Moore University in Liverpool. He has had numerous articles on child care and social policy published in journals in the U.K. and South Africa. How children are suffering harm by those with a duty to protect them

Articles by Charles Pragnell-
Family Law and the Dire consequences for Children
Petition answered with Spin and Sophism
The Silence of the Media Lambs!
Doctors in a Dilemma
Are you an `Appropriate’ person?
Childrens Plan
State Terrorism
The Seriously Unhealthy State of Paediatrics
RAD – the Return of a Nightmare
Persecution of Children and Families
Why I  am Petitioning the Prime Minister
Vaccines and Child Abuse Accusations
Why did Sally Clark Suffer and Die?
Perverse Reversal of Child Custody
Child Protection in Kangaroo Courts
Fabricated and induced illness in Children
A History of Man’s Inhumanity
A System out of Control
Forced Adoption

BURDEN OF PROOF BEGONE: 
THE PERNICIOUS EFFECT OF EMERGENCY REMOVAL 
IN CHILD PROTECTIVE PROCEEDINGS 
By Paul Chill
University of Connecticut School of Law 
University of Connecticut School of Law Working Paper Series 
Year 2004 Paper 55 

NCFR Report, December 1995
Child Protective Services Under Scrutiny
by Deborah G. Alicen, Ph.D.

JUL-03
CHILDREN AS CHATTEL: 
INVOKING THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT
TO REFORM CHILD WELFARE
Kurt Mundorff

From CPS Watch, ©2000
Dorothy's Never Coming Home:
New Law Puts Families in Crisis
States Report They are Increasing Efforts to Take Children From Their Homes to Collect Federal Bounty
by TCB CHRONICLES Staff 

The Drugging of Our Children 
By Gary Null  

All of a sudden, it seems, millions of American children are said to be afflicted with mental illnesses. And they’re being put on strong medications—over periods of years—as treatment. Isn’t it time we stopped and looked at what the mental health establishment is getting us to do to our children?

Excerpt from- The Ethics of Liberty
By Murray N. Rothbard
(Excerpted from Chapter 14)
The present state of juvenile law in the United States , it might be pointed out, is in many ways nearly the reverse of our desired libertarian model. In the current situation, both the rights of parents and children are systematically violated by the State.

Imagine your terror and panic: you are awakened by an armed SWAT team in the middle of the night, demanding to be let into your home to take your children away. The grim-faced agents show you no warrant, no court order, and no mercy. They give you no reason for their presence, other than having received an unspecified report about child abuse. They bark commands and menace you and your children with their weapons. The children are taken out of your home screaming, shoved into cars, and whisked away into the night.

This is not a Soviet-era movie script, but a reality in thousands of homes in the United States every year, courtesy of state child protective services agencies.

The least reported and understood social crisis of our time is the vast new police state run by these state social services agencies, which are generically referred to as “child protective services,” or CPS.  MUST SEE FULL STORY

TOTALITARIANISM IN AMERICA

By Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D
December 18, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

Mass incarcerations without trial or charge; forced confessions; children forcibly separated from their parents with no reasons given; doctored hearing transcripts and falsified court records; evidence fabricated against the innocent; government agents entering the homes, examining private papers and personal effects, and seizing the property of citizens who are under no suspicion of legal wrongdoing; special courts created specifically to convict people who cannot be convicted in ordinary courts; children instructed to hate their parents by state functionaries: Is all this the Soviet Union in the 1930s or Communist China in the 1960s? Is this some novelist’s prognosticated dystopia? No, all this and more is routine in the United States today.  Full Story

Found at Robert Shepard website-
Hazel McBride, a contemporary suicide researcher and psychotherapist ... "No government and no court should be allowed to take a child from a parent unless there is a very, very, very good reason," says Dr. McBride. "Because to have a child ripped from you, it's the same as a child dying. It's absolutely uncivilized, barbaric and devastating for any parent. It's not uncommon for these people to suffer depressive breakdowns."
They are COUNTING ON IT.  They use that as "evidence" for the Character Assassination.

Audio from NPR.org (National Public Radio) about the utter lack of science which psychologists use when determining child custody in those costly psychological evaluations.  Absolutely no published scientific studies published on the outcomes of these evals.  It's all bogus.
http://www.npr.org./templates/story/story.php?storyId=16523618

Which is exactly what we said long ago in our page-
The Minnetonka Maxifaze Personal Invasion number two

"Children are “Human Beings” under the Bill of Rights and subject to
the protections of the Constitution. They are not well served by the
suspension of those rights!"- Law Is Not Justice

“One is innocent until proven guilty.” Perhaps this is the bedrock of Americans’ sense of justice. Its corollary is that one should not be punished until that guilt is established. But there is nothing more punishing than the strategic but sadistic use of pain to force a confession or to gain information. Victims of torture—who tell us that they longed for death—would testify that this punishment is even worse than death. Punishment before guilt is proven must be viewed as anathema to American’s values. --January 6, 2005 Testimony of Douglas A. Johnson, Executive Director The Center for Victims of Torture

"I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent." --Daniel Foe (1660-1731) English writer, famous pamphleteer, journalist and novelist, wrote the novel Robinson Crusoe Source: An Appeal to Honor and Justice, 1715 

"It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest." -Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice Source: Henry v. United States, 1959

Kinship Care More Beneficial Than Foster Care, Study Finds

June 24th, 2008
Government-Supervised Parenting
Part I of an In-depth Look at Article 18 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

During our series on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, most of the articles we have considered have focused on the relationship between the state and the child. Article 18 is therefore unique in its emphasis on the responsibilities of parents, and the supervised relationship that these parents have with the state. Full Story

Madeline Albright signed us up for this, HIGHLY against the will of the American People

Are children 'creatures of the state?'
David W. Kirkpatrick, The Buckeye Institute  7/28/2008

"The best interests test has long been the subject of academic as well as judicial criticism for being indeterminate, providing little guidance on how to weigh the different needs of individual children, especially as they change over time"; Robert H. Mnookin, Child-Custody Adjudication: Judicial Functions in the Face of Indeterminacy, 39 Law & Contemp. Probs., 226, 257 (Summer 1975).

"Best interests operates as an empty vessel into which adult perceptions and prejudices are poured." --Hillary Rodham, Children Under the Law, 43 Harv. Ed. Rev. 487, 513 (1973).

In the child's best interest
Leonard Henderson, July 31, 2008

‘Will America Survive Without Her Families?’
by J. D. Longstreet (8/23/08)

What has happened to the American family? It doesn’t exist, anymore. Oh, we have something we like to call “family”, often times living beneath the same roof, but it’s not family… not in the true sense of the word.

America has redefined Family until we have defined it out of existence. I think that was intentional. Our socialist brothers and sisters, on the left, want to control this country and to do that they must destroy the basic building blocks of this republic and reassemble those blocks to suit themselves. The single most important building block of any nation is her families. Destroy that and you can easily lay claim to a nation’s soul. And that is exactly what has happened. Full Story

8/25/08- A HUGE lid blows off the child doping-
Allegations halt drug recommendations
By Stephany Garza of The Daily Texan
Texas Medication Algorithm Project fraud finally exposed
Besides all the corruption, kick-backs, bogus diagnosis, it seems to be completely lost on everybody that almost NONE of this DOPE is approved for under 18 years old-

"Except for Risperdal, none of the antipsychotics is FDA-approved for children. The overwhelming majority are prescribed "off label."  Full Story

Monday, August 25, 2008
MY WISH LIST IF I HAD THE JOB
Job Opening: Führer of Oregon's CPS
Leonard Henderson Blog

11-17-2008
Child (or agency) Protection?
By Rich Rigney
November 17, 2008
Oregon CPS worker goes public.  He has good advice for CPS workers EVERYWHERE.

: WHERE IS THE LAW about a "messy house"?

 

THE BIG FIX From: THE - COMMITTEE   Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 6:30 AM  Mr. Henderson, of the American Family Rights Association, (AFRA), has been asking for an essay, to depict that which is wrong with the Child Protection System (CPS), and what, if anything should be done to correct it, (see article below). In response to his timely request, we shall attempt to divulge that which we have long advocated towards, repeat that which I have long spoken of, and speak out that which we are firmly convinced of... Ok... If you're so smart, never mind telling us us what you think is wrong with the Child Protection System, tell us how you believe it can be fixed, amended and/or enhanced to work as originally intended...  Tell us how the System should work.  To this end we shall present the following Essay:

For those who think we are exaggerating...
Child Protective System Videos - WLKY-TV Louisville

 

"Sadly, there is a certain element within the child welfare industry that tends to look upon kids in the way that, say, Colonel Sanders looks upon chickens." - Professor Ronald Davidson, Director, Mental Health Policy Program, University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Latest news on UNWANTED ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. " -- Frank Herbert (1920-1986) Source: "The Dosadi Experiment"

You have no idea how bad a person you are until CPS points it out to you.

By What Authority Do You Do These Things? By Leonard Henderson March 19, 2009 I am curious- What authority do the CPS agencies tell the caseworkers they have?   They certainly walk around acting like they think they are LAW ENFORCEMENT. Under WHAT AUTHORITY do they operate?  FULL STORY

How are you going to answer the  absurd allegations she brings to  YOUR front door? Tuesday February 3, 2009 United Nations Population Fund Leader Says Family Breakdown is a Triumph for Human Rights By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman United Nations' threat: No more parental rights Expert: Pact would ban spankings, homeschooling if children object Posted: February 05, 2009 12:00 am Eastern By Chelsea Schilling © 2009 WorldNetDaily   American social workers would be the ones responsible for implementation of the policies --Michael Farris., president of ParentalRights.org, chairman of  Home School Legal Defense Association and chancellor of Patrick Henry College Not since the overthrow of the Weimar Republic have the leaders of a major democracy used their offices and the mass media to disseminate invective against millions of their own citizens. In fact it was Adolph Hitler who urged that “the state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people” and who explained, in the words of Rabbi Daniel Lapin, that “as long as government is perceived as working for the benefit of children, the people happily will endure almost any curtailment of liberty.” Using children to tug on our heartstrings may be not only a weakness of the sentimental. It also may be a ploy by those cynical and unscrupulous enough to exploit children for their own purposes. This is likely to be remembered as one of the most diabolical perversions of governmental power in our history, a time when we allowed children to be used and abused by fast-talking government officials and paid for it with our families, our social order and our constitutional rights. -- STEPHEN BASKERVILLE (in about 2000) "HHS is the largest line item in the federal budget at over 700-billion last year, much of the expense going towards weakening the marriage market or attempting to Humpty-Dumpty the downstream wreckage."  --David R. Usher  Full Story

The SOLUTION to a big part of America's problems- Throw CPS in the trash where it belongs H. Armstrong Roberts/Stringer/Retrofile/Getty Images "He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance" -Declaration of Independence "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." -Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824

"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005

"CPS agents are nothing near being "police". Their malfeasant and criminal activities conform with German SS agents in the 1940's. CPS is Organized Crime, a Domestic Terrorist organization, and a Money-Sucking Black Hole tearing the fabric of the universe." - Leonard Henderson

"The government's interest in the welfare of children embraces not only protecting children from physical abuse, but also protecting children's interest in the privacy and dignity of their homes and in the lawfully exercised authority of their parents." -CALABRETTA v FLOYD 97-15385