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| A shroud of secrecy The issue is confidentiality, not CPS workers By Robert Speer roberts@newsreview.com This article was published on 12.30.10 I left a nice comment there. Unfortunately it's one of those comment systems that take out all paragraphing. |
| Published Thursday December 30, 2010 Child welfare perplexes lawmakers By Martha Stoddard WORLD-HERALD BUREAU LINCOLN — By the time Nebraska lawmakers gather Wednesday in Lincoln, a controversial shift in the child welfare system will be almost complete. Private contractors will have taken over most of the responsibility for ensuring the safety and well-being of state wards. State employees will be relegated to overseeing the contractors’ work. They will also investigate initial reports of abuse and neglect. But, starting in January, they will no longer manage individual child welfare cases in the Omaha area, Lincoln and southeast Nebraska. The timing creates a quandary for state lawmakers who had questioned the Department of Health and Human Services’ plans to increase privatization of child welfare services. “We are in kind of a tough spot in terms of what we can do,” said State Sen. Colby Coash of Lincoln. “People ask me all the time, ‘Can’t you write a bill to stop that?’ The reality is, I can’t.” FULL STORY I think it's Pitchforks and Torches time.
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| Fairview
couple relinquish parental rights to adopted Liberian daughters Ardee, 53, and Penny Tyler, 47, appeared Wednesday in Major County District Court, officially ending their battle to regain custody of the girls, ages 5-16. The two were convicted in February of abusing a fifth adopted daughter. BY ANN KELLEY akelley@opubco.com Published: December 30, 2010 News OK FAIRVIEW, Oklahoma - A Fairview couple convicted of child abuse have relinquished their parental rights to four sisters they adopted from a Liberian orphanage. Ardee Tyler, 53, and Penny Tyler, 47, appeared Wednesday in Major County District Court, officially ending their battle to regain custody of the girls, ages 5-16. District Attorney Hollis Thorp said it's a case won by no one, because ultimately children have been hurt. “They didn't provide the type of home the children are entitled to,” Thorp said. “Children are born with the entitlement of having a good home - it doesn't have to be a wealthy one that's completely without problems — but it should be a good home.” FULL STORY Such a statement coming from a pompous government employee rubs me the wrong way. The adopted kids are now in state foster care, which is 11 to 28 times more dangerous to kids. Everything about adoption of foreign kids is wrong.
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| NYS Video Focuses on Child Sex Abuse Reported by: Sean Carroll Email: scarroll@13wham.com Published: 12/29 5:57 pm Updated: 12:18 am |
| The top 7 parenting controversies of 2010 There's always someone standing by to give moms and dads advice. Confusing advice, for the most part posted on December 29, 2010, at 11:14 AM The Week Bad advice for the most part. And if the advice comes from somebody with an alphabet following their names, it is useless blather. |
December 29, 2010 |
| YAHOO Answers- Open Question Does Child Protective Services steal children? |
| Scientists Show that They Can Change People's Moral Judgments Posted By Dr. Mercola | December 29 2010 Scientists have shown they can alter your moral judgments just by disrupting a specific area of your brain with magnetic pulses. A region of your brain just above and behind your right ear appears to control morality -- a bundle of nerve cells known as the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ). When the researchers used magnetic pulses to block cell activity in that region, they impaired volunteers' notion of right and wrong. BBC News reports:
I think it is rather interesting that scientists can remove people's morals. But there seems to be an absence of scientific ability to IMPROVE morals. |
"There ain't no
ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all." --
Davy Crockett (1786-1836) American hunter, frontiersman, soldier and
politician
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Davy.Crockett.Quote.80A0 |
| DECEMBER 28, 2010 So Young and So Many Pills More than 25% of Kids and Teens in the U.S. Take Prescriptions on a Regular Basis By ANNA WILDE MATHEWS Wall Street Journal
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| Legacy
of Nazis in America_OSI Report Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:51:38 -0500 From: veracare <veracare@ahrp.org> Alliance for Human Research Protection A Catalyst for Debate www.ahrp.org After four years the Justice Department finally released a report by the Office of Special Investigations about a secret government policy, ProjectPaperclip , that gave Nazi criminal scientists a safe haven in the US as well as high level employment after World War II--in direct defiance of President Truman's policy. http://documents.nytimes.com/confidential-report-provides-new-evidence-of-notorious-nazi-cases Under Project Paperclip not only rocket scientists
were recruited, but convicted war criminals-- including doctors who had
conducted medical atrocities on concentration camp inmates, such as:
experiments with plague vaccines, experiments that force-fed chemically
altered seawater to starved Dachau concentration camp inmates... I would say the unethical behaviors, attitudes, and mode of operation of CPS agents are absolutely Nazi
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111th
Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined: $10,429 Per
Person in U.S. Monday,
December 27, 2010By Terence P. Jeffrey (CNSNews.com) - The federal government has accumulated more new debt--$3.22 trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29)—during the tenure of the 111th Congress than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to official debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury. That equals $10,429.64 in new debt for each and every one of the 308,745,538 people counted in the United States by the 2010 Census. The total national debt of $13,858,529,371,601.09 (or $13.859 trillion), as recorded by the U.S. Treasury at the close of business on Dec. 22, now equals $44,886.57 for every man, woman and child in the United States. In fact, the 111th Congress not only has set the record as the most debt-accumulating Congress in U.S. history, but also has out-stripped its nearest competitor, the 110th, by an astounding $1.262 trillion in new debt. During the 110th Congress—which, according to the Clerk of the House, officially convened on Jan. 4, 2007 and adjourned on Jan. 4, 2009--the national debt increased $1.957 trillion. When that Congress adjourned less than two years ago, it claimed the record as the most debt-accumulating Congress in U.S. history. As it turned out, however, its record did not last long. The $3.22 trillion in new federal debt run up during the 111th Congress exceeds by 64 percent the $1.957 trillion in new debt run up during the 110th. FULL STORY |
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doctors in China to help fight child abuse 23:35, December 27, 2010 Xinhua A delegation of Israeli pediatric experts are visiting China this week, to train local colleagues in recognizing and treating child abuse and neglect. The Jerusalem-based Haruv Institute group, which focuses on training professionals in the field in Israel, is meeting with 40 pediatricians from across China in Xi'an, according to a statement from the organization. "The Chinese have recently realized that the role pediatricians ' play is a very integral one in fighting child abuse, and often they will be the first place a child will go after being hurt," according to Haruv Director Hillel Schmid. "This innovative and pioneering seminar aims to train these pediatricians with the necessary skills and knowledge to detect when a child is in danger and, furthermore, have the resources and wherewithal to take the appropriate action," Schmid said. Haruv officials say this is the first time China has made such a request for outside expertise. "Our goal is to expand our reach and to deepen our collaboration with the professional community in China to share with them the knowledge and skills we obtained in Israel to fight this phenomenon," according to Schmid. Some of the Chinese doctors will visit Israel in return for further training, the group said. Now I am confused. The Chinese communists want help to be communist about kids? When did Israel become the expert? |
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UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO HEAR THIS EXCELLENT PROGRAM, NOW AVAILABLE FROM KPFK'S ARCHIVE Tuesday, December 28, 2010 |
| Controversy
Surrounds 14-Year-Old Mother Updated: Monday, 27 Dec 2010, 5:53 PM CST Published : Monday, 27 Dec 2010, 5:53 PM CST RANDY WALLACE Investigative Reporter MyFOX HOUSTON - Although Monday's hearing didn't happen, the 14-year-old mother was surrounded in court by supporters like numerous relatives and even state senator John Whitmire. This case hasn't drawn attention because of the mother's young age, it's due to alleged antics by the court and Child Protective Services. "No one has been served no one has been given proper notice like the law dictates for them to appear," said attorney Julia Maldonado who is representing the teenage mother. "I think they just want the babies to be adopted," Maldonado said. "I think they wanted that all along from the very beginning." FULL STORY Wow. How did this girl end up with an actual good lawyer? That doesn't happen often. |
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"I have never seen more
senators express discontent with their jobs. ... I think the major cause
is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing
something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down
in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have
given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. ... We have defrauded our
country to get ourselves elected."
-John C. Danforth (1936- ) US Senator (MO-R) Source: in an interview in
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| Couple turns to billboard to help adoption effort Posted: 12/27/2010 By: Michael Rosenfield Their adoption agency in Southfield recommended they get the word out as much as they can. So they've advertised their dream on a billboard on I-75 near Grand Blanc. It costs $2,000 for a month and will come down January 8th. So far no calls have come in. FULL STORY I left a comment there-
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| Foster
Parents; Definitions vs Reality? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison
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| Posted on Monday, 12.27.10 Making good parents BY TED GRANGER Miami Herald The greatest gift anyone can receive during this joyous season is the love and support of family. Most of us take our families for granted. But what if you had grown up in a family where your parents did not know how to provide the strong foundation that would help you to succeed in school and become a contributing member of society, much less equip you to become a good parent yourself? Parents who haven't had the opportunity to learn effective parenting skills through their own childhood experiences are ill-equipped to meet the challenges facing today's families. Although they want to be good parents, they recognize they don't have the basic knowledge and skills needed to handle the job. Some parents who face these challenges have the opportunity to voluntarily participate in the Healthy Families Florida home visiting program. I have heard these parents talk about their experiences in Healthy Families with such passion that I feel compelled to share some of their words with you during this season of gratitude and hope. Through this nationally accredited and proven program, parents at high risk for child abuse and neglect learn how to recognize and respond to the changing developmental needs of their babies, use positive discipline techniques and cope with the day-to-day stress of parenting in healthy ways. Parents are also encouraged to take personal responsibility for setting short and long term goals like enrolling in GED or job-training programs and finding stable employment. FULL STORY I sure hope this program is better than the "Tough Love" course they were teaching several years ago. My wife and I attended the class taught by a young stupid BSW. At the end of the class, I had to inform him that every technique he suggested was chargeable child abuse in the state of Oregon. |
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TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SCHOOLS By Investigating Journalist Jon Rappoport December 27, 2010 NewsWithViews.com There is a hidden reason, among many other reasons, why American schools no longer teach the detailed meaning of the Declaration and the Constitution and the Republic for which they stand. And that hidden reason is: schools in this country are no longer American. They are looked at, by “professionals,” as universal schools. That is, these schools service children, many of whom don't speak English or write English as their first language. And there is no major push to teach English thoroughly and rigorously to kids who don't speak it or write it. When you look at a school, moreover, as a multi-cultural institution, and you glorify the notion of “ethnic diversity,” you are basically saying that integration into the great melting pot is no longer a priority. So, under that banner, why would you consider a major grounding in the Constitution important? You wouldn't. What you're left with is essentially a social event, not an educational event. FULL STORY |
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"Whatever the immediate
gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political
suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting
from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always
wise." -Alexander Meiklejohn
(1872-1964) Source: Testimony, First Session, 84th Congress, 1955 |
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How the State of Kansas CPS Stole Christmas |
| The sort of stuff I stumble across when I ain't looking for it-
I have been making the case for 10 years that CPS absolutely IS communism |
| Meal-ticket children are hostages to lifestyles of parents By Lindsay Mitchell 5:30 AM Monday Dec 27, 2010 NZ Herald Responding to the most recent high profile child abuse case, the Minister for Social Development and Employment, Paula Bennett says she will "... do anything in her power to protect children." We must take her at her word. I do not doubt her sincerity. Why does child abuse and neglect occur? Because the child is 'wanted' at one level, but not at another. Sometimes they are wanted for the benefits that dependent children bring; priority for housing, extra income, and parental amnesty from being self-supporting. They are not wanted in the usual sense; loved more than can be expressed or explained. The way children should be loved by their parents and grandparents. FULL STORY I left a comment there (because NZ is quite a communist country)-
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Troubled
preteens may become delinquents By
Jessica Murphy, QMI AgencyLast Updated: December 26, 2010 4:21pm MONTREAL — Preteens dabbling in vandalism, bullying and truancy are more likely to be in trouble with the law as teenagers, according to a new study by Montreal researchers. Eric Lacourse, the study’s lead author, also said the way we deal with kids showing signs of so- called ‘conduct disorder’ may actually be detrimental. “What we found in the research group was that youth who were sent through the legal system or placed in youth detention ended up worse,” he said. FULL STORY See "How Dr. Spock destroyed America" From this evil root has grown the Child Abuse Industrial Complex- Social Workers behaving like 1940's SS men. |
| Sunday, December 26th, 2010 Top psychologist says children need traditional values By Clare Carswell Deadline Scotland- A TOP Government advisor has recommended a return of good old fashioned family values in a bid to stem the increase of violent teens. In response to the latest figures that show a sharp rise in violence by youngsters towards adults, Tommy MacKay, a professor of psychology at Strathclyde University and a leading authority on the subject in Scotland has said that traditional values should be brought back. Professor MacKay supports the enforcement of school uniforms, encourages traditional family values and has spoken out against celebrity culture, as displayed in TV shows such as X factor. He said that children were being negatively influenced by the ‘cult of self’ and that there was a need for greater respect of adults by children and teenagers. Professor MacKay said: “Over the years there has been a fundamental loss of respect for parental and school authority and for the values previously instilled by the church.“Society is loosing its old anchor points and domestic violence is part of that pattern. “We are sitting on an unexploded time bomb of disturbed behaviour.” FULL STORY |
| Lack of help made tragedy inevitable 12:00am on Dec 26, 2010 Modified at 1:53am on Dec 26, 2010 Kentucky.com
So it was, in a way, for the social workers who had been involved in the saga of the family that gave rise to Kayden Branham Daniels, the toddler who died last year after swallowing drain cleaner, a key ingredient of home-cooked methamphetamine, that was sitting in a coffee cup on a table. All signs pointed to an impending disaster. Kayden's mother, Alisha, was 12 when he was conceived and 14 when he died. Melissa Branham, her mother, had custody of Alisha, but social workers were concerned she was abusing drugs. Alisha herself had tested positive for marijuana. The utilities had been cut off at Melissa Branham's home. So, Alisha, Kayden and Kayden's father had moved to a trailer rented by Alisha's father, Larry Branham, where methamphetamine was being produced. Larry Branham has acknowledged once being addicted to pain medication, but he says that with treatment, he no longer has a problem. His ex-wife, Melissa, told social workers shortly before Kayden died that she suspected Larry Branham was involved with drugs. Kayden's life was in danger from the moment he was conceived. FULL STORY Every time this story is updated, I grow more aghast. |
| And now, some
pure, adulterated horse tookey from the people who get paid to generate
horse tookey- Child neglect 'as harmful as abuse' Adele Horin December 27, 2010 The Age, New Zealand CHILD neglect can be just as harmful to children's cognitive development as physical and sexual abuse, a new study shows. But child-protection authorities do not treat neglect with the same urgency as other forms of child maltreatment. The study of almost 4000 children aged 14 revealed that those with a history of reported abuse or neglect scored on average three IQ points lower than children who had not been maltreated. And the children who had been neglected did just as poorly as children with a history of physical or sexual abuse. ....The study was published online this month in the medical journal Pediatrics. FULL STORY |
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| Sunday, December 26, 2010 Mother fights addiction and gets her son back  By Roseann KeeganSpecial to the Tahoe Daily Tribune I left a comment there-
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| America's
global leadership imperiled by weak families Sexual dysfunction, divorce, out-of-wedlock birth depriving kids of stable homes Posted: December 25, 2010 10:10 pm Eastern By Brian Fitzpatrick © 2010 WorldNetDaily Family breakdown is threatening America's ability to lead the world, according to a new study released by the Family Research Council. "A great nation depends on great families, but weak families will build a weak nation," writes FRC scholar Dr. Patrick Fagan in "The US Index of Belonging and Rejection" "Bluntly put, the United States will not be able to maintain its leadership role in the community of nations unless its parents take a leadership role in the communities they have built: their families, which are the fundamental units of our society. If the United States desires to be a leader in the world, pursuing what is good for itself and other nations, its parents must first be leaders of their own homes and children,"* warns Fagan, director of FRC's Marriage and Religion Research Institute. FULL STORY *PROBLEM- There is an absolute WAR going on against parents doing exactly that- because as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said- "Destroy the family, you destroy the country." As for family breakdown, see- Tuesday February 3, 2009 |
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Season's
Greetings to CPS people everywhere |
| Kids
endangered by Oklahoma public officials' “amnesia” BY RICHARD WEXLER Published: December 25, 2010 |
| China bars political dissident access to lawyers Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:03am GMT By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's most prominent human rights advocates, who was charged in June for subversion, has been denied access to his lawyers, a move that rights activists say sets the stage for a hasty and covert trial. Liu Xianbin, 42, was charged with "incitement to subvert state power" for his articles that included his reflections on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's arrest, Liu Xianbin's wife, Chen Mingxian, told Reuters by telephone. The move to deny Liu Xianbin legal representation comes just as China has come under pressure from the international community for its human rights record, most recently for its harsh punishment of the Nobel laureate. China, which jailed Liu Xiaobo for 11 years last year for "incitement to subvert state power," has called the Nobel award a "political farce." Almost one year to the date that the Chinese government jailed Liu Xiaobo, many Chinese dissidents who have been charged in highly sensitive cases involving state secrets or subversion charges have been languishing in legal limbo as it is not unusual for authorities to severely curtail access to lawyers or family members. FULL STORY Sounds exactly like Family courts, huh? Twelve years ago Pamela Gaston was referring to family courts as "China courts". She was right. The unconstitutional family courts and lack of vigorous defense of the "guilty until proven innocent" are intolerable violations of human rights. |
| Another Holiday Wish List Christine James-Brown CEO, Child Welfare League of America Posted: December 24, 2010 12:27 PM Huffington Post Christine- I heartily agree with your column, except for the "child welfare workers... humble and honorable profession". The truth is, many child welfare workers need to be in prison for their unethical, unconstitutional activities and violations of Federal Law- several of which are Capital Crimes |
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| 1991-2010 "Enormous
Scale" of Pharma Criminal Fraud Settlements Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:16:08 -0500 From: veracare <veracare@ahrp.org> Alliance for Human Research Protection A Catalyst for Debate www.ahrp.org FYI A report by Public Citizen documents the enormous scale of lawless activities by the pharmaceutical industry during the past two decades--crimes for which the government levied a minimum of $1 million in penalties. http://freepdfhosting.com/53888d5b53.pdf Between 1991-2010, there were 165 criminal and/or civil settlements involving major pharmaceutical companies who paid $19.8 billion in penalties. Four of the world's largest drug companies--GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Schering-Plough--accounted for 53% ($10.5 billion) of penalties during these two decades. If that isn't shocking enough, during the past five years, Big Pharma has been engaged in a veritable crime spree: 73% of these settlements (121) and 75% of the penalties ($14.8 billion) occurred between 2006-2010. "While the defense industry used to be the biggest defrauder of the federal government under the False Claims Act (FCA), a law enacted in 1863 to prevent defense contractor fraud, the pharmaceutical industry has greatly overtaken the defense industry in recent years. The pharmaceutical industry now tops not only the defense industry, but all other industries in the total amount of fraud payments for actions against the federal government under the False Claims Act." But government suits against the pharmaceutical industry have failed to address the harmful human consequences--WHY? Read more... http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/744/9/ Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav veracare@ahrp.org 212-595-8974 Someday, the lid will blow off the fraud and corrupt Child Abuse Industry. We believe the False Claims CPS and their contractors generate are close to $300 BILLION a year. |
CPS Workers Hand Out Gifts In Robstown Posted: Dec 23, 2010 12:46 PM Updated: Dec 23, 2010 1:14 PM KRISTV Information from Child Protective Services ROBSTOWN, Texas - Santa was at 5th and main, his sled was the back of a pick up truck, but the children that stopped by did not seem to mind as there were gifts to be passed out and photos to be taken. Many of the parents who stopped with their children took the opportunity to snap a photo with their children and jolly old saint nick as Christmas tunes from a boom box set the mood for the event. The children who stopped by received a traditional fruit bag along with their selection of a toy, a book and a stuffed animal. The gifts were donated by Coastal Gymnastics Academy. Kudos to Coastal Gymnastics Academy. Boo on CPS passing out gifts to kids. I would be highly concerned about CPS taking photographs and collecting information on "needy" a.k.a. "neglected" children to feed into the CPS meat grinder later. |
| No abuse reported before death of Bartlesville toddler By LAURA SUMMERS World Correspondent Published: 12/24/2010 2:27 AM Last Modified: 12/24/2010 4:50 AM BARTLESVILLE - Washington County child-welfare workers saw no warning signs of abuse before the death of a 3-year-old Bartlesville boy. A report released this week by Oklahoma Department of Human Services on the death of Christian Norris indicates that child-welfare officials received no calls complaining of possible abuse or neglect involving the child before his death Dec. 7. Joshua Robert Benton, 22, is being held without bail on a first-degree murder charge in Christian's death. Benton, who worked as a Washington County jailer until his arrest, reportedly confessed to using force on the boy. FULL STORY You cannot prevent things like this from happening, no matter how tyrannical government gets about it. If every child was taken by government and raised in government homes, there would be (actually IS) 7 times more deaths, 11 times more abuse, and almost universal rape of kids by the time they age out. The death penalty has been stopped in many states because a majority of people do not believe it is a deterrent. America has been Deliberately Dumbed Down and made Morally Bankrupt, while the culture war on virtuous and honorable living continues. There really is a war against kids and the family has been utterly abandoned to nothing but Legal Abuse. |
| New Study Chronicles Crisis of Traditional Families Written by Dave Bohon Friday, 24 December 2010 00:00 The New American A new study from the Family Research Council (FRC) reveals that over half of children in the United States are being raised in single-parent homes decimated by divorce, separation, and parental conflict. In the U.S Index of Belonging and Rejection, Dr. Patrick Fagan, director of the FRC’s Marriage and Religion Institute, found that the American family model has become one of rejection, with only 45 percent of American teens raised in families with both a mother and father legally married to one another. By contrast, 55 percent of teens in the U.S. have been raised in families marred by rejection, including “single-parent families, stepfamilies, and children who no longer live with either birth parent but with adoptive or foster parents.” Fagan’s research, based on data gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, found that increased divorce rates and more children born outside of marriage “have turned growing up in a stable, two-parent family into an exception, rather than the rule, for young Americans.” Especially relevant, he found, were statistics showing that while 62 percent of Asian-American teens and 54 percent of Caucasian teens live with both married parents, only 17 percent of African-American youth — less than one in five — live in intact homes with both married parents. FULL STORY |
| Healthy Families Florida serves struggling parents Posted: December 24, 2010 - 12:00am Florida Times-Union, Guest Column The greatest gift anyone can receive during this joyous season is the love and support of family. Most of us take our families for granted. But what if you had grown up in a family where your parents did not know how to provide the strong foundation that would help you to succeed in school and become a contributing member of society, much less equip you to become a good parent yourself? Parents who haven't had the opportunity to learn effective parenting skills through their own childhood experiences are ill-equipped to meet the challenges facing today's families. Although they want to be good parents, they recognize they don't have the basic knowledge and skills needed to handle the job. Some parents who face these challenges have the opportunity to voluntarily participate in the Healthy Families Florida home visiting program. Through this nationally accredited and proven program, parents at high-risk for child abuse and neglect learn how to recognize and respond to their babies' changing developmental needs, use positive discipline techniques and cope with the day-to-day stress of parenting in healthy ways. Parents are also encouraged to take personal responsibility for setting short and long-term goals like enrolling in GED or job training programs and finding stable employment. One grateful mom said that before entering Healthy Families, "I was on welfare, taking advantage of every government program available. Since I have been in [Healthy Families], my husband and I have been able to get jobs, our own apartment and a better handle on our bills. "Also, I have been pushed to get my kids to their health appointments." Family support workers also screen moms for depression and their children for developmental delays, educate parents about the importance of immunizations and well-child check-ups and link them to medical providers. In addition, they teach parents how to access community services and identify and address potential safety hazards in and around their homes. Family plays an essential role in fulfilling the emotional and physical needs of children, which lays the foundation for all future emotional, cognitive and social development. A family is the most important unit of society because it is the child's first, and most important, "school" where important skills and abilities critical are - or aren't - developed. FULL STORY |
| Child abuse case worker released pending child pornography case By ROCCO LaDUCA Observer-Dispatch Posted Dec 23, 2010 @ 01:44 PM Last update Dec 23, 2010 @ 02:18 PM An Oneida County Child Protective Services case worker has been released on his own recognizance* while he faces pending charges of possessing child pornography, according to federal court documents. U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge George Lowe in Syracuse on Thursday agreed to release Stanley Dorozynski from custody as long as he complies with various conditions, including: FULL STORY * The actual truth is, they probably wish they didn't have to take a "good CPS agent" from his "being over- worked protecting the most vulnerable for not nearly enough pay" |
| DECEMBER 23, 2010 8:09AM While Kids Die LA Child Welfare Employees Sting Taxpayers Bonnie Russel Blog I so wanted to report the LA County Agency responsible for the safety of children had done something good, finally. Wait, I can. Sort of. Nah. It's only a pr move. It's the same everywhere with CPS |
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Albany
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| What Should Parents Do if They Cross the Line? By Megan Trent December 22, 2010 Story Updated: Dec 22, 2010 at 8:01 PM EST FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - Most parents get frustrated with their children at one point or another, but what happens when adults cross the line? Child safety advocates say prevention of abuse is key, and the welfare of any child should be priority number one. If an adult finds themselves in an aggravating situation with a child, Jennifer Boen with SCAN (Stop Child Abuse and Neglect) says the adult should take a step back and calm down. But what if the situation has already gotten out of control? Boen says, "If they've crossed the line and they've injured their child, or even think that they're going to and they have struck a child or find themselves doing verbal abuse, make that call." Seriously, if you have a temper tantrum with a child and hurt them, your life as you knew it is over. So this story is definitely a "must read" for young, new parents. See my old, OLD essay New (First Time) Parent? |
| How to Write a Declaration of Facts to Submit to the Court Linda Martin FightCPS.com December 22, 2010 When parents appear in Juvenile Court they are handed a report written by a CPS social worker. It states the county’s side of the court case. |
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"All the public
business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is
great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle
of cabals."
-John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) 6th US President |
| Muslim
leaders demand probe of DYFS worker Wednesday, December 22, 2010 Last updated: Wednesday December 22, 2010, 11:40 AM BY DEENA YELLIN The Record Staff Writer PATERSON, New Jersey - Muslim community leaders Tuesday demanded an investigation of a caseworker for the state's Division of Youth and Family Services who they say insulted Muslims when he allegedly hurled racial and religious slurs at them at a local restaurant. Sandra Damrah and Mohamed Metwaly Khalil of Woodland Park filed complaints with DYFS and Paterson Municipal Court against the caseworker, whom they identified as Ezeadi Kelechi, after a Nov. 23 incident at Uncle Lou's Restaurant in Paterson. The caseworker saw Khalil and Damrah at a table and allegedly shouted, "Terrorist!" and asked, "Do you have your bomb belt?" and "Are you going to slit my throat?" recalled Khalil, an artist who works as assistant curator at the Paterson Museum. Khalil added that the man was accompanied by a DYFS colleague, who did nothing to halt the abuse. Khalil identified Kelechi as a caseworker who had handled his attempt to regain custody of his son, who is in the DYFS foster care system and separated from his father for a year. FULL STORY They sure don't have to think they are being treated any differently than anybody else. CPS agents universally treat everybody like dirt. CPS agents are some of the nastiest, most insane people on the planet. |
Child protection worker faces child porn charges Posted at: 12/22/2010 8:35 AM UTICA, N.Y. (AP) - A case worker responsible for investigating child abuse cases has been charged by federal authorities with receiving child pornography over the Internet. Stanley Dorozynski, who also is a former Utica police officer, appeared in federal court Tuesday on child pornography charges. He remains in the custody of U.S. Marshals pending a hearing on Thursday. Oneida County Social Services Commissioner Lucille Soldato said Tuesday she was aware of the charges against Dorozynski, but declined to comment further. Sgt. Steve Hauck of Utica Police says Dorozynski was a Utica police officer from July 1980 to July 2000. He has been a child protective services case worker since 2008. |
| December 21, 2010 The College Diploma Fraud By Robert Weissberg American Thinker For more than a half-century, government has tried to close racial gaps in educational attainment. Sad to say, those gaps have proven intractable. Nevertheless, the impulse remains as heartfelt as ever (perhaps due to its financially lucrative character), but the emphasis is now shifting from actual learning to equality of graduation rates. President Obama has spoken of adding 5 million graduates to the workforce by 2020, and credential-mania is now all the rage. This shift is a disaster in the making; imparting knowledge is commendable, but just handing out diplomas is harmful deception. A cynic might aver that the shift from knowledge to graduation rates is a tacit admission that the gap-closing quest is futile. FULL STORY As far as I am concerned, social work and psych degrees are credentials for utter idiots and communists. (It is well-known that social work and psych students are the stupidest kids on campus). See my old, OLD essay The Alphabet of Corruption The Alphabet of Corruption |
| Alerting Parents; Review "The Child" Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison December 22nd, 2010 1:53 pm ET Most American’s are under the impression that freedom is theirs just because they reside in the United States. Freedom is earned, by the deaths of our fellow American’s past and present fighting and dying on battlefields to insure your freedoms continue. |
| Police: Man arrested for threatening to punch female investigator's teeth out Staff Reports Published: 09:19 a.m., Wednesday, December 22, 2010 CT Post NORWALK, Connecticut -- A city man under investigation by the state Department of Children and Families was arrested Monday after he allegedly threatened to punch a female DCF worker in the mouth at a meeting at his children's school. We all have wanted to do that, but Singletary fell for the trap. CPS agent are deliberately snotty and over-bearing skanks who WANT you to get mad and say something. There is no such thing as a CPS "investigator". They are VALIDATORS. They aren't looking for the truth. They believe any allegation, and they are going to make it stick to you. See how it works? Be prepared for when CPS brings the false allegation to YOUR FRONT DOOR |
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news for Maria, twins By RICK CASEY Copyright 2010, HOUSTON CHRONICLE Dec. 21, 2010, 11:27PM It is sad, but enough Texas girls in foster care have babies that the state has an official policy as to their rights. On the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Right No. 33 is "To not get pressured to get an abortion, give up my child for adoption, or to parent my child, if applicable." Right No. 34: "To hire independent mental health professionals, medical professionals, and attorneys at my own expense." The 14-year-old girl I called "Maria" in Sunday's column wanted her own attorney. Juvenile Judge Pat Shelton has set next Monday as the trial date for a Child Protective Services suit to take away her parental rights to twin boys she gave birth to in August. That is an extremely short time for a process that usually, I'm told, takes a year or more. FULL STORY |
| GOP leaders demand laws be constitutional
To reverse course that featured Pelosi's 'Are you serious' sarcasm Posted: December 21, 2010 9:02 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh © 2010 WorldNetDaily At the height of her campaigning for President Obama's plan to nationalize health-care decision-making, outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously quipped, "Are you serious? Are you serious?" when asked about its constitutionality. But that question won't need to be asked in the coming Congress, where Republicans will hold the majority in the House, because of a rule being proposed by Speaker-designate John Boehner and other Republicans that would require those proposing legislation to cite the constitutional authority for the plan. "The Pledge to America released by House Republicans in September of this year included a commitment to 'require every bill to cite its specific constitutional authority.' FULL STORY How about making that about 100 years retroactive? Specifically, what occurs to me in the Family Rights realm is- Where's the Constitutional Authority for CPS? NOTHING they do is Constitutional. With the upcoming Parental Rights Amendment, we might be able to gut out a bunch of this insane Communist crap. |
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Just found- * Note- They didn't actually get caught. Which should say something about the agencies, I would think. Actually, I think the agencies are conducting the same identical fraud. |
| Agency seeks to foster children's family bonds By: LAURIE MASON SCHROEDER The Intelligencer UNLOCKING THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH AGENCY When a child needs a home, child welfare workers are legally obligated to look to relatives first.
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| Posted: Dec. 21, 2010 Mich. Supreme Court: Loss of parental rights doesn't end support ASSOCIATED PRESS Owning a blow-up plastic love doll instead of messing with actual females might not be a bad idea. |
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vary in Pa. child-welfare worker survey The Associated Press Posted: 12/20/2010 12:54:06 PM EST HARRISBURG, Pa.—A national social workers' advocacy group says 84 percent of Pennsylvania's child-welfare caseworkers have a bachelor's degree in human services, but it says seven counties rate well below the average. The Pennsylvania chapter of the National Association of Social Workers released the report Monday. It says it gathered the information on every child-welfare caseworker in Pennsylvania, a process that took 11 months and required requests under the state Right to Know Law. It found eight counties with 100 percent of caseworkers who have a bachelor's degree in human services: Butler, Carbon, Forest, Huntingdon, Lackawanna, Lebanon, Montour and Sullivan. But it says seven counties are below 70 percent: Blair, Cameron, Elk, Greene, Mifflin, Somerset and Wayne. It says Pennsylvania's requirement for caseworkers is 12 college credits in social sciences. Seriously, how many people know how useless a bachelor degree is? Two years. Social sciences. The kids in college taking social science and psych courses are the stupidest kids on campus. Absolutely vapid. Absolutely communists. Nasty, low IQ people with loser personalities. The worst of the worst. |
| Social Workers in Child Abuse Case Placed on Leave By EMILY VALDEZ Fox 8 News Reporter 8:10 p.m. EST, December 20, 2010  CLEVELAND — Two social workers involved with a case of alleged child abuse have been placed on administrative leave.An internal review was launched by the Department of Children & Family Services Monday after a 46-year-old Cleveland woman was arrested for child endangerment and domestic violence. In a statement released Monday, DCFS said: "The Department of Children & Family Services conducted an internal review of all contacts with the children and families involved. Director Forkas placed two staff on administrative leave; further internal investigation is ongoing." Renee Lester is accused of keeping her four adoptive children locked in a dark room with little to eat. She was arrested Friday at her Edgewater Drive home and taken to the Cleveland City Jail. Cleveland police said the prosecutor's office is not filing charges against Lester at this time. She was released from jail Monday evening pending further investigation, officials said. Lester's four adoptive children, along with three of her other children, are now in the custody of Children and Family Services. All seven children will be placed with a foster family today, the statement said. Additional details were not released. EVERYBODY should know about
this-
...The most difficult case of all involves a subject who has an ideal occupation for any child molester: a therapist who specializes in treating troubled children. This offender need only sit in his office while society preselects the most vulnerable victims and brings them to him. The victims are by definition “troubled” and unlikely to be believed if they do make an allegation So is there little doubt that a pervert CPS guy wouldn't be taking advantage of helpless VULNERABLE children?
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| Study: Kids All Hopped Up On Caffeine By Jaya Saxena in Food on December 20, 2010 4:08 PM The Gothamist Remember when you were a kid and you'd beg your parents to let you order a Coke at a restaurant but they told you you were too young to have caffeine and you spent the rest of the meal plotting the phone call you were going to place to child protective services when you got home?* Apparently that was just us, because according to a new study [pdf], 75% of kids between the ages of 5 and 12 consume caffeine on a daily basis. Though it's based on a relatively small survey of 201 kids, Dr. William Warzak says, "Some children as young as 5 years old were consuming the equivalent of a can of soda a day." Let's just start the total caffeine ban countdown now. Aside from having 5-year-olds running around like speed freaks, the study says that the more caffeine the children consumed, the less they slept. Dr. Warzak told the Daily News, "Caffeine is not some boogie man, but at some point for all of us, too much caffeine is a problem." Doctors also said more research needed to be done on whether or not caffeine can stunt a child's development. Meanwhile, we're on our third cup of coffee of the day. But we can quit whenever we want. * CPS vehemently denies this ever happens |
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of Nevada below standard for tracking child abuse cases By Roseann Keegan Special to the Tahoe Daily Tribune December 20, 2010 First of a five-part series |
| Obama Signs
CAPTA renewal into law President Obama Signs Critical Legislation to Prevent Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Posted by Lynn Rosenthal on December 20, 2010 at 07:05 PM EST I fought it long and hard. There still isn't enough people in this country whose families have been hurt by CPS to take interest. |
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Parents; Who will protect us? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison
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| Fla. officials arrest author of pedophilia guide Fla. sheriff files obscenity charge against Colo. author who sold guide for pedophiles online Tamara Lush, Associated Press, On Monday December 20, 2010, 1:33 pm
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Florida officials filed an obscenity charge Monday against the author of a self-published how-to guide for pedophiles that was yanked from Amazon.com last month after it generated online outrage. Please excuse me while I throw up |
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"I never liked the
atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to
build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time,
thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay
there after they were in." -Booker T.
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TSA workers arrested on child pornography charges Monday, December 20, 2010 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The very same U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents that grope and naked body scan you and your children when you fly may also be illegally accessing and sharing child pornography. A recent report by WCVB-TV Boston explains that Andrew Cheever, 33, a former TSA agent from Massachusetts, was recently arrested on child pornography charges -- and he is not the only one. Investigators found that Cheever had been storing and sharing over 10,000 pornographic videos and images involving children on multiple computers, hard drives and external media storage devices. Authorities charged him on two counts of child pornography possession and restricted him from contacting or working at jobs that involve children under the age of 18. But the Cheever case is just the tip of the iceberg. FULL STORY |
| Suit accuses Oregon caseworker of hitting 8-year-old foster child Published: Sunday, December 19, 2010, 7:06 PM By Aimee Green, The Oregonian A court-appointed representative is suing the Oregon Department of Human Services for $149,000 on behalf of an 8-year-old foster child who reportedly was hit by her caseworker. |
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| Busybodies, Nags and Control Freaks Posted by Alan Caruba on December 18, 2010 at 7:30pm Tea Party Nation Which is exactly what CPS is. |
| Why Judicial Corruption is Invisible By JOHN BARTH, Jr. December 10, 2010 We all would like to believe that, as when we were children in a family, there is in our society a final authority to whom we can turn in case we are seriously wronged. We are not predisposed to believe the accusers of the judicial process any more than the detractors of Santa Claus. Perhaps critics are merely sore losers or angry convicts, and perhaps judicial misconduct would be exposed by appeals courts or the mass media, and corrected. Why guess our way without the facts? Such pre-dispositions held by many otherwise educated adults allow pervasive institutional corruption of the judicial branch to remain hidden. Judicial corruption is invisible to citizens, because lawyers are trained and motivated to deny and cannot safely speak of it, because mass media corporations agree with judicial prejudice and live in fear of judicial whims, because non-lawyers cannot obtain the facts without prohibitive cost and effort, and because the infantile myth of judicial salvation has broad appeal and is propagated as an opiate by the mass media. Judicial corruption is discovered by those of its victims willing to do years of tedious research, and only they will speak of it. FULL STORY |
| Quebec - A children's
gulag Corruption, Child Abuse & the Business of Children in Quebec |
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urge lawmakers to spend more on drug treatment in abuse cases By Beth Musgrave and Bill Estep at 12:00am on Dec 19, 2010 — bmusgrave@herald-leader.com Modified at 6:25am on Dec 19, 2010 Herald-Leader, Kentucky In this story, one of the AFRA folks just now pointed out to me that Alisha Branham was 14 and her son was 20 months old. |
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step short December 19, 2010 Courier-Journal On face value and at first blush, the changes proposed in how Kentucky conducts investigations into charges of child abuse make sense: interview more people involved with a child who is suspected of being abused or neglected; team experienced social workers and supervisors with newer ones to ensure all bases are being covered; and streamline work and tasks for more efficient use of time. Changes are very much needed, and they should be a priority for the commonwealth. As The Courier-Journal's Deborah Yetter reported last year, more than 270 Kentucky children died from abuse or neglect over the past decade — this state was No. 1 in the nation for that tragic statistic in 2007 — and many of those children were known to state child welfare officials. A variety of issues played into the protective lapses that cost those children their lives: missed signals, cuts in funding, overworked social workers. Patricia Wilson, Kentucky's commissioner of social services, addressed some of those concerns in the changes she outlined last week to lawmakers. She also vowed to “leave no stone unturned” in the agency's approach to improving its protection of at-risk children. But some stones were, indeed, left unturned. FULL STORY |
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open-and-shut case Dependency courts, where cases of child abuse and neglect are heard, should be open to the public. December 19, 2010 Los Angeles Times The problems of Los Angeles County's Department of Children and Family Services are too numerous to list and too serious to ignore. County supervisors addressed one last week by moving aside the head of the troubled agency. Those that remain range from uneven and onerous caseloads to technological limitations to inexperienced workers handling delicate matters beyond their capacity. Compounding all of those issues, however, is one problem that can and should be fixed: Dependency courts, where cases of child abuse and neglect are heard, should be open to the public. Some may regard it as unsurprising that a newspaper would favor open judicial proceedings, and in one sense it is: We do generally believe that the public's interests are most reliably served when records and actions of government agencies, including courts, are subject to scrutiny by the media and the public. But this proposal for openness is not special pleading by the media. Already, juvenile and dependency hearings may be open if the presiding officer concludes there are compelling public interests in lifting the presumption of secrecy. Because news organizations are the rare institution with both resources and interest in openness, many of those cases that journalists seek to observe are opened. That leaves others out, however, including child welfare advocates, interested parties and those who simply want to see justice done, but lack the knowledge or money to hire lawyers and fight their way into court. FULL STORY |
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woman arrested for mistreating foster children Saturday, December 18, 2010 WTAM 1100 (Cleveland) - A 12 year old girl told Cleveland police she planned to fall down the stairs at her school and hurt herself---so she wouldn't have to go back to her foster home. The little girl told police a horrifying tale of mistreatment at the hands of her foster parent in the home in the 10-thousand block of Edgewater Drive in Cleveland. Cleveland police Sergeant Sammy Morris says the child and two foster siblings claim they were forced to sleep either in the basement or the attic of the home, and were often locked up. The youngsters told police they fear being beaten by the foster mother, and had to steal blankets because there were no beds for them. They told police she took light bulbs out of the attic fixtures. When police went to the home, they found locks on the basement door. In the attic, they found blankets on the floor and no light bulbs. Sergeant Morris stated that the foster mother told them she locks the children up "because they steal stuff." Cleveland police have arrested a 46 year old woman pending charges of domestic violence and endangering children. They say the woman had a total of seven children living in the home---three biological children and four foster children. Officers made the arrest after they were called by a social worker from Marion Selzer School. The worker was concerned about signs of abuse that she saw on one of the children. All seven children living in the home are now in the custody of the Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services. The woman is in jail. Technically, the 4 foster kids were already in CPS custody. Nothing to see here. Move along. Don't give it a second thought. |
| Group explores class-action lawsuit against Sask. gov't on behalf of foster children By Lana Haight, The StarPhoenix December 17, 2010 9:02 PM REGINA, Canada — A group working on behalf of foster children is exploring a class-action lawsuit against the Saskatchewan government over a system that's been labelled as in crisis. "The liability that's accrued in child welfare is huge. It's much greater than the residential school abuse," said Tim Korol, a former assistant deputy minister of social services who is spearheading the group that would launch the class action. "I would argue that some of the harm that's come to these children is deeper. I don't want to minimize the residential school (abuse). That's part of the issue." The idea of a foster care class action has been floating around the province's legal, medical and social work communities for a while. It's now time to hold the government accountable, says Korol, who was hired as a special adviser to the minister of social services in 2008, promoted to assistant deputy minister and then fired in June 2009. A rancher from the St. Denis area, Korol continues to be involved in the child welfare system as an advocate. "There's two courts in our land. The court of public opinion and the judicial courts." FULL STORY |
| 12/17/2010 A Tale of Two Numbers California's Children  With a spotlight on child welfare in Los Angeles, the public has recently become aware that the salary for the director of the county Department of Children and Family Services, the county welfare department, is $260,000 a year, or
$21,666 a month. (There is the likelihood that this salary will increase with the appointment of a director, Antonia Jimenez, from a private-sector financial consulting background; the recently reassigned director, Trish
Ploehn, who holds a master's degree in social work from Cal State Long Beach, will be retaining the $260K salary in her new position.)The federal poverty level (2009) for a family of four, unadjusted for a higher cost of living in California than in most other states, is: $21,756 a year. ....So. $21,666 a month for the director; $21,756 a year for the clients. FULL STORY I think we now know why the French people used the guillotine |
| Duke lacrosse accuser convicted of child abuse By EMERY P. DALESIO The Associated Press Friday, December 17, 2010; 6:06 PM DURHAM, N.C. -- A woman who authorities said falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape four years ago* has been found guilty by a North Carolina jury of misdemeanor child abuse and damaging property. A Durham County jury on Friday convicted 32-year-old Crystal Mangum of contributing to child abuse or neglect, injury to personal property, and resisting a public officer stemming from a February confrontation with her live-in boyfriend. Mangum was sentenced to time already served before she was released on bail earlier this year. The jury deadlocked 9-3 on a felony arson charge, and Superior Court Judge Abraham Jones declared a mistrial. Police said Mangum piled her boyfriend's clothing into a bathtub and set it on fire while her three children and two police officers were inside the apartment. *Remember the term "Nifonged"? |
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suing OK agency wants documents turned over Associated Press - December 17, 2010 9:45 AM ET TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A child advocacy group suing the Oklahoma Department of Human Services for allegedly mistreating children in its custody will ask a federal judge to order the department to hand over documents sent and received by top agency officials. The hearing is Friday in U.S. District Court in Tulsa. New York-based Children's Rights filed the class action lawsuit and says in court documents that DHS has refused to provide records from former and current commissioners who oversee department welfare policies. The group is also asking for sanctions against DHS for failing to produce documents on time. The lawsuit was filed in 2008 and accuses DHS of mistreating some of the 10,000 or more children believed to be in state custody. It calls for an overhaul of the state's child welfare program. "Overhauling" the agency never means putting the whole bunch of them in prison for their crimes against families |
| Social-service agencies say client deaths at 5-year high By Dan Weist The Salt Lake Tribune Published Dec 17, 2010 04:01PM The number of suicides and accidental deaths among clients of state social-service agencies finished the 2010 fiscal year at a five-year high, according to fatality reports compiled by the Utah Department of Human Services. FULL STORY |
| America Breeding Culture of Rejection, Index Warns Friday, 17 December 2010 10:53 AM EST Jennifer LeClaire News American children are battling rejection as families are increasingly falling apart. A disturbing 55 percent of American children come from broken homes—and 55 percent of American teenagers’ parents have rejected each other, either through divorce, separation, or choosing not to marry. So says the Index of Belonging and Rejection. Produced by Pat Fagan, Ph.D., of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute, a project of Family Research Council, the Index defines an intact family as a biological mother and father remaining legally married to each other since before or around the time of their child’s birth. As Fagan sees it, American society is dysfunctional, characterized by a faulty understanding of the male-female relationship. The solution, he says, is a compass correction, learning again how to belong to each other when we have begotten children together. “If we fail in this, as a nation we will continue to ‘define deviancy down,’ in the inimitable phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan,” Fagan says. “The merging again of the realities of father and mother with those of husband and wife will strengthen our children and lead to immeasurable benefits for children, adults and society. These include financial, educational, legislative, legal and judicial gains.” According to the Index’s analysis of the 2008 American Community Survey, significant variations in the capacity to belong occur across regions and within different ethnic groups. For example: FULL STORY |
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"When men are
brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn
and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to
live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men
may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions."
-Walter
Lippmann (1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political
commentator Source: The Indispensable Opposition, 1939 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Walter.Lippmann.Quote.A7A4 |
| New federal report shows drop in child abuse rates By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer – Thu Dec 16, 5:16 pm ET NEW YORK – The rate of child maltreatment in the U.S. decreased in 2009 for the third consecutive year, according to new federal figures. Although the decrease was slight, it ran counter to the predictions of some experts that the onset of the recession in late 2008 would trigger an upsurge of abuse. The annual report from the Department of Health and Human Services, issued Thursday, said the estimated number of victimized children dropped from 772,000 in 2008 to 763,000 last year. That's down from 903,000 in 2006. The rate of abuse was 10.1 per 1,000 children, down from 10.3 in 2008, to reach the lowest level since the current tracking system began in 1990. The number of fatalities arising from abuse and neglect, however, rose slightly, from 1,740 in 2008 to 1,770 last year. More than 80 percent of the fatalities were 3 or younger, while infants less than 1 year old had the highest overall rate of abuse and neglect. Of the perpetrators, four-fifths were the parents of the victim. David A. Hansell, the HHS acting assistant secretary for children and families, said he was pleased by the continued decrease in maltreatment. "However, we also know even one child abused is one too many," he said in a statement urging more support for preventive programs and services. David Finkelhor, a University of New Hampshire sociologist who is a leading authority on child abuse, said some people might attribute the decline in maltreatment reports to cuts in spending for investigation. But he said researchers thus far have not found evidence to support this interpretation and noted that crime also declined in 2009, contrary to expectations related to economic hard times. "My view is that some of the improvements we have achieved that are bringing down violence and child abuse are deeply rooted and resistant to short term influences like unemployment and economic stress," Finkelhor said. These might include improved parenting skills, psychiatric medication and increased surveillance, he suggested. Of the victims, 78 percent suffered neglect, nearly 18 percent were physically abused, 9.5 percent were sexually abused and 7.6 percent suffered psychological maltreatment. Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform said much of the speculation about child abuse increasing during a recession "actually is a reflection of more people becoming poor and having that poverty itself mislabeled 'neglect.'" The new report "suggests that, at long last, child welfare systems are getting better at distinguishing actual maltreatment from poverty itself," Wexler said. "They're getting a little more careful about trying to help families instead of tearing them apart. Earlier this week, a recently formed coalition of five organizations urged the federal government to do more to reduce child-abuse fatalities. The National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths called for an increase in federal funding of $3 billion to $5 billion, an increase in home visits to troubled families, and changes in confidentiality laws that limit information jurisdictions can release about abuse cases. "...There is this unwritten assumption that, given any problem or bad news of any kind, that government politicians and bureaucrats know what's best for all of us; that anyone who works for the government is, by definition, smarter, wiser, and has more honesty and integrity. And so, every time something bad happens, they all respond with that all-too-predictable knee-jerk response that, by golly, the government needs to DO SOMETHING about it! And inevitably, the government DOES indeed do something: it gets bigger and more powerful, and spends more money." - David M. Woods |
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Time TV 'Objectifies and Fetishizes' Underage Girls, Study Says By Hollie McKay Published December 16, 2010 FoxNews.com LOS ANGELES – Long gone are the days when Marcia Brady’s sweet smile and Winnie Cooper’s brains and beauty were how television represented teen-age girls. According to a new study conducted by the Parents Television Council (PTC), Hollywood is shockingly obsessed with sexualizing teen girls, to the point where underage female characters are shown participating in an even higher percentage of sexual situations than their adult counterparts: 47 percent to 29 percent respectively. PTC’s report, entitled “New Target: A Study of Teen Female Sexualization on Primetime TV” is based on a content analysis drawn from the 25 most popular shows in the 12-17 demographic throughout the 2009-2010 television season. “The results from this report show Tinseltown’s eagerness to not only objectify and fetishize young girls, but to sexualize them in such a way that real teens are led to believe their sole value comes from their sexuality," said PTC President Tim Winter. "This report is less about the shocking numbers that detail the sickness of early sexualization in our entertainment culture and more about the generation of young girls who are being told how society expects them to behave." FULL STORY I am reminded of this quote
from years ago- October 31, 2002- American parents worry most about whether their children will have good character and values and they see America's popular culture as their adversary, according to a new survey. "Parents today are struggling very hard to raise respectful, responsible, well-behaved children," said Deborah Wadsworth, president of Public Agenda, which yesterday released its parenting survey, "A Lot Easier Said Than Done." (Conducted for the State Farm Insurance Companies with additional funding from the Family Friendly Programming Forum) But 76 percent of parents felt their job was "a lot harder" than what their parents faced, said the survey, based on telephone interviews of 1,607 parents of children ages 5 to 17. The previous generation of parents went through hardships and world wars, "but we did not feel as if our kids were surrounded by hazards of every kind," Mrs. Wadsworth said. "We felt there were allies — institutional allies — and the real world reinforced the values that we wanted to teach our kids," she said. My sense from this study, and it's really painful, is that parents just feel absolutely abandoned. They feel as if they are being sabotaged at every turn." FULL STORY |
| Lawmakers OK with forced abortions 'What kind of leaders refuse to protect pregnant women who want to keep their child?' Posted: December 16, 2010 9:14 am Eastern By Michael Carl © 2010 WorldNetDaily Canada's parliament couldn't muster the votes to make it illegal to force a woman to have an abortion. By a vote of 97 "Yeas" and 178 "Nays," Canada's House of Commons yesterday voted down the motion to send Private Member Bill C-510 to the Human Rights Committee for further discussion. The bill would have amended the Canadian Federal Criminal Code to make it illegal to coerce, threaten, or physically force a woman to have an abortion. FULL STORY |
| Majority of U.S. Adults Had Troubled Childhoods: CDC Study finds nearly 60 percent lived with abuse or other difficult family situations Posted: December 16, 2010 By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Almost 60 percent of American adults say they had difficult childhoods featuring abusive or troubled family members or parents who were absent due to separation or divorce, federal health officials report. In fact, nearly 9 percent said that while growing up they underwent five or more "adverse childhood experiences" ranging from verbal, physical or sexual abuse to family dysfunction such as domestic violence, drug or alcohol abuse, or the absence of a parent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "Adverse childhood experiences are common,"1 said study coauthor Valerie J. Edwards, team lead for the Adverse Childhood Experiences Team at CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. "We need to do a lot more to protect children and help families," she said. About a quarter of the more than 26,000 adults surveyed reported experiencing verbal abuse as children, nearly 15 percent had been physical abused, and more than 12 percent -- more than one in ten -- had been sexually abused as a child. Since the data are self-reported, Edwards believes that the real extent of child abuse may be still greater. "There is a tendency to under-report rather than over-report," she said. The findings are published in the Dec. 17 issue of the CDC's journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. For the report, researchers used data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, which surveyed 26,229 adults in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Tennessee and Washington. Edwards is cautious about extrapolating these results, but based on other data they probably are about the same in other states, she said. ....Adverse childhood experiences included in the report included verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, incarceration of a family member, family mental illness, family substance abuse, domestic violence and divorce.2 According to the report, about 7.2 percent had had a family member in prison during their childhood and 16.3 percent had witnessed domestic violence in the family home. In addition, about 29 percent grew up in a home where someone abused alcohol or drugs. "These cases occur across all racial groups and ethnicities," Edwards noted. Almost one in five respondents (19.4 percent) had lived as a child with someone who was depressed, mentally ill or suicidal, the report noted. Although the volume of abuse and dysfunction is significant, such traumatic experiences cannot be used to describe a person or determine what that person will be,3 the researchers cautioned. Instead, they said, keeping track of these abusive experiences is important to gain a better understanding of them and their effect on society. 1- Otherwise known as "growing up". 2- That's 50% of the population indicated in one fell swoop. 3- This flies in the face of a lot of mental illness clinician's world view. |
| New Oklahoma law adds turn in complicated child welfare maze THE tug of war that Oklahoma's child welfare workers face every day was highlighted recently by The Oklahoman's Randy Ellis, who reported on a change in state law that took effect at the start of this year. The Oklahoman Editorial Published: December 16, 2010 THE tug of war that Oklahoma's child welfare workers face every day was highlighted recently by The Oklahoman's Randy Ellis, who reported on a change in state law that took effect at the start of this year. New Oklahoma law adds turn in complicated child welfare maze The law was the result of a study that showed Oklahoma children were removed from their homes at a much higher rate than the national average. That study noted the potential emotional damage to children who are pulled from their homes, even if for a short time. The large majority of those children were returned to their homes within a week. That led legislators to conclude that providing services to parents, without removing a child from the home, would be preferable when possible. The law passed in 2009 requires that before a child is removed from a home, child welfare workers, law enforcement and the courts must determine that an “imminent safety threat” to the child exists. Previously, officials had to show that a child's surroundings were a danger to his or her welfare. What constitutes an imminent safety threat? FULL STORY |
| Child welfare report released Last Updated: Thursday, December 16, 2010 | 3:15 PM CST CBC News A report on child welfare in Saskatchewan says the system is broken, with too many children going into care. The trust isn't there because CPS people are malicious, goose-stepping frauds and scam artists. |
| Ripped apart at the seams Two local families fight a losing battle against Children’s Services’ secretive system By Meredith J. Cooper newsreview.com This article was published on 12.16.10 California- We’ve all heard horror stories of children being beaten, molested, exposed to hardcore drug abuse and even prostitution. For most, these situations boggle the mind, melt the heart and justify just about any amount of intervention by government agencies to ensure the future safety of the children. Child Protective Services—now known as Children’s Services in Butte County—operates under a veil of secrecy and privilege, but because of stories like those above, for many that secrecy and privilege seem justified. Others argue that the secrecy is being used against them, the privilege taken for granted. And if half the services offered to foster parents were offered to biological parents or family members—as the federal government and even Children’s Services suggest—fewer families would be ripped apart. The priorities outlined on Butte County Children’s Services’ website suggest that keeping the family unit intact is a priority, but the Perrys and Garveys, both Butte County families, know different. In both cases, a child who is most definitely wanted and loved has been plucked from his or her home and placed instead in foster care. There must be a good reason for these children to be in foster care, you might think while reading this. You’re likely one of the majority whose life has not been touched by Children’s Services. Of course, you could be right—the point of this story is not to discredit the department. But organizations like the Pacific Justice Institute offer another, darker explanation: That perhaps Children’s Services is not working in the best interest of every child. Perhaps it’s fueled by a need for federal grant money, allocated based on numbers of kids in foster care and those who get adopted. Perhaps the secrecy involved is not so much in the child’s best interest, either, but is used to help increase those numbers—and federal funding—when possible. FULL STORY |
Former Yuba County CPS worker sentenced to 9 years in prison December 16, 2010 12:12:00 AMBy Ryan McCarthy/Appeal-Democrat Former Yuba County government employee Yolanda Fryson was sentenced Wednesday to nine years and four months in prison by a judge who said, "from a moral standpoint, this is at least close to the worst crime I have seen in 21 years on the bench." "I have a public official who picked out a completely innocent person," said Placer County Superior Court Judge Joe W. O' Flaherty. "This was about money from Day 1." FULL STORY Wow. So this is the worst case judge Joe has seen? A CPS agent is a public official? Picking out completely innocent people? It's about money from Day 1? Frankly, this is just CPS's normal mode of operation, and the reason AFRA exists. |
| TIME FOR CHRISTIANS TO SHRED THEIR BIBLES By Chuck Baldwin December 16, 2010 NewsWithViews.com |
| Report:
Less Than Half of U.S. Children in Intact Homes By Bob Ellis on December 15th, 2010 CNS News Also see Why No One Is Married |
| Kentucky revising way it probes child abuse By Deborah Yetter • dyetter@courier-journal.com • December 15, 2010 FRANKFORT, Ky.- After a lengthy review of children’s deaths from abuse or neglect, Kentucky’s social services agency is making substantial changes in the way it investigates cases of suspected mistreatment, a top state official told lawmakers Wednesday. “We are revamping our process for investigations,’’ Patricia Wilson, commissioner of social services, told a meeting of the interim House-Senate Health and Welfare Committee. “We are doing our very best to make sure we leave no stone unturned.” FULL STORY As much as we could hope that real improvement might come from the pledged revision, over the years we have seen this same story again and again across the US and every westernized country in the world. Nothing ever really changes except an occasional coat of white wash. |
| December 15, 2010 12:30 PM Eastern Time Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) Frontline Child Welfare Workers Need Voice in Finance Reform Says CWLA; Survey to Help Ensure They Are Heard WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As discussions continue on Capitol Hill about reforming federal refinancing of the child welfare system, the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), the nation’s oldest and largest membership-based organization serving vulnerable children, has launched an initiative to ensure that the debate includes the voices of frontline workers. In the coming weeks, CWLA will be surveying child welfare professionals including frontline workers who provide direct care to children, and will summarize results and recommendations in a white paper for policymakers. “For changes of this significance, it’s vital to get on-the-ground feedback about the workings and shortcomings of the system. Change and reform that impacts millions of children needs to be based on sound information. Since frontline workers have a unique perspective, we’re committed to ensuring that their voices are heard,” said Christine James-Brown, CEO, CWLA. The House and Senate are expected to consider child welfare finance reform early in the 112th Congress. Reform is needed to put a greater emphasis on prevention and to ensure that children being served in foster care and kinship care have access to support provided by Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, which was created to address this need. Since 1996, eligibility for IV-E has been tied to a program that no longer exists, Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Changes to the Title IV-E language are needed to correct the discrepancies created by being tied to this outdated program and to open up IV-E to prevention strategies. In response, CWLA is putting together a white paper on child welfare for Congress that will include perspectives of frontline workers and supervisors. Child welfare professionals are experts on the strengths and weaknesses of the service delivery system at the point it reaches vulnerable children and families or fails to support them. Their firsthand input on the inner workings of the child welfare system—including family support, family reunification, foster care, kinship care, and adoption—will help inform the CWLA position. To get feedback, CWLA is conducting a series of conference calls with small groups of child welfare workers from across the country. This group survey will capture the expertise of frontline workers and supervisors who direct the process of furthering children's safety and well-being. The survey will assess the subjective sense of workers on the state of the child welfare system. Survey findings are expected to be completed by mid-February. The findings and the white paper will be sent to Congress and posted to the CWLA website. I wonder if they would like to hear back from those of us who have been wrongly victimized by the system? |
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| Child Deaths Prompt FDA Warning on Cough Drug By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Published: December 14, 2010 After reviewing reports on 31 overdoses of the prescription cough medication benzonatate (Tessalon) -- including the deaths of five toddlers -- the FDA said it was beefing up the drug's label warnings and urging parents to keep it out of reach of children. The product is sold in colored gelcaps with a "candy-like" appearance, the agency indicated in a press release. "Benzonatate should be kept in a child-resistant container and stored out of reach of children," said Carol Holquist, RPh, director of the agency's Division of Medication Error Prevention and Analysis. "The FDA encourages healthcare professionals to talk with their patients and those caring for children about the risk of accidental ingestion or overdose." The product will remain on the market, but new label information will be added about risks of accidental ingestion resulting in overdose and death in children younger than 10. Benzonatate was approved in 1958 for treatment of coughs in patients 10 and older. It is available in 100- and 200-mg dosage forms. An FDA review of adverse event reports disclosed 31 cases of overdose in children and adults, ranging in age from 1 to 66. The overdoses involved as many as 30 gelcaps and as few as one. Most of these appeared deliberate. However, seven were ruled accidental, all of which occurred in children younger than 10. Five of these -- all involving children younger than two -- ended in death. Cardiac arrest, coma, and convulsions were common in the overdose cases. In six cases where the event report included information on time course of events, the FDA said, symptoms developed within an hour of ingestion, much faster in some cases. The agency recommended that healthcare professionals prescribe the minimum number of capsules needed to treat an episode. Providers should also advise parents to keep the capsules in childproof containers out of reach of children, the FDA said. |
| John Stossel Why Do People Believe in Fantasies? December 15, 2010 Townhall Being gullible about government hurts everyone. Government is force. When it sells us bunk, we have to pay even if we don't believe in or want it. |
| December 14, 2010 Protecting the most vulnerable this season By U.S. Sen. John Cornyn Guest contributor Jacksonville Daily Progress JACKSONVILLE, Texas -- This holiday season, while many of us are fortunate to spend quality time with our loved ones enjoying the spirit of the season, there are many children across Texas and the country who are subjected to a much different experience. Child welfare officials and organizations often see a spike in reports of child abuse and neglect during this season, which some studies conclude is a result of the added financial stress of the holidays, more frequent use of alcohol among adults, and children spending more time with distant relatives during their break from school. Child abuse and neglect is a serious problem that impacts too many children not only during the holidays, but year-round. In Texas, on average, more than 200,000 cases of alleged child abuse or neglect are reported each year. According to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, deaths from child abuse and neglect in Texas soared 31 percent from 2008 to 2009, with 280 related deaths confirmed. This year, in addition to seasonal factors, the weakened state of our economy is already being attributed to a rise in child abuse and neglect cases. A study recently released by Boston University School of Medicine found that a prolonged increase in unemployment rates is “detrimental” to the physical and mental health of children. In November, the national unemployment rate rose to a seven-month high of 9.8 percent. “When times are bad, children suffer,” said study author Dr. Robert Sege, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Ambulatory Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. “These results suggest that programs to strengthen families and prevent maltreatment should be expanded during economic downturns.” FULL STORY I wonder if the programs to strengthen families is the same old false allegations, lies, fabrication of evidence and Legal Abuse as always? |
| Appeals court: warrant required before Feds can read e-mail By Jacqui Cheng ars technica December 14, 2010 The government must obtain a valid search warrant before infiltrating your e-mail in a criminal investigation, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. The appeals court ruled Tuesday on US v. Warshak, noting that e-mail "requires strong protection under the Fourth Amendment," and that law enforcement can't demand for an ISP to give up e-mail with just a court order. FULL STORY So your emails have more protection than your kids. |
| Group Blasts Media Blackout on Child Abuse Analysis by Benjamin Radford Tue Dec 14, 2010 02:06 PM ET A Media Blackout? Wexler blasts back at Every Child Matters- December 14, 2010 SERIAL
STATISTICS ABUSERS AT EVERY CHILD MATTERS ARE AT IT AGAIN |
December 14, 2010 We are excited that some key numbers show that behind the scenes we are gearing up for our push of the Parental Rights Amendment in the U.S. House in 2011, even as 2010 is winding down and our thoughts turn to the holidays. The assault on parental rights never takes a holiday, so we can’t let up either. However, if we can continue to grow these numbers – in video showings, state resolutions, and monthly donations – we will be poised for success in the New Year. FULL STORY |
| BUSTED: This Popular "Independent" Health Website is Deceiving You Posted By Dr. Mercola | December 14 2010 In a shocking report published earlier this year, BNET exposed how WebMD's online test for depression is rigged for profit:
But that's just the beginning. A number of questions about just how 'independent' a source WebMD is have since surfaced, and the answers are not what you'd expect. FULL STORY A lot of us have already gotten wise to the industry-wide corruption. |
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"And that the said
Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the
just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to
prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens,
from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless
necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more
of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and
orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or
to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their
persons, papers or possessions." -Samuel
Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American
Revolution." Source: Debates
and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
1788 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Samuel.Adams.Quote.B683 |
It is over. S.3817 passed 12/10/2010: Senate agreed to House Amendment by Unanimous Consent. "Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin |
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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero CPS people are traitors, and they are the plague.
| Children
to be placed on at-risk register before they're even born Published Date: 14 December 2010 By Scott Macnab The Scotsman Unborn babies are to be given greater protection
from the threat of abuse, under national guidance unveiled by the
Scottish Government. |
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| L.A.
County ousts head of troubled child welfare department December 13, 2010 | 11:09 am LA Now Los Angeles County Chief Executive William T. Fujioka has removed Trish Ploehn as director of the Department of Children and Family Services, according to his spokesman. Ploehn will be transferred to a new position in Fujioka’s office handling "administrative work that is unrelated to child welfare," said Ryan Alsop, Fujioka’s spokesman. FULL STORY I wonder if she keeps her $260,000 a year pay |
| The Other Welfare The Boston Globe The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for children was created mainly for those with severe physical disabilities. But the $10 billion in federal benefit checks now goes primarily to indigent children with behavioral, learning and mental conditions. Qualifying is not always easy -- many applicants believe it is essential that a child needs to be on psychotropic drugs to qualify. But once enrolled, there is little incentive to get off. And officials rarely check to see if the children are getting better. We believe SSI is one of the things that CPS agencies are massively defrauding |
| Foster
Parents; What about Adoption? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison
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Meet
the father of child pornography Renowned
scholar exposes 'ground zero' for molestation epidemicPosted: December 12, 2010 11:05 pm Eastern © 2010 WorldNetDaily Suppose it were proven that one of the most famous scientists of the last century, whose research became the very foundation for restructuring Americans' moral code, turned out to be not only a scientific fraud but a supremely sick and perverted human being – a sexual psychopath who reveled in the criminal molestation of hundreds of infants and children? In a world where truth is often stranger than fiction, Judith Reisman's 30-year research campaign exposing the infamous Alfred Kinsey is not only frighteningly true, but the poison the "famed sex researcher" injected into American society continues to spread. FULL STORY |
| Critics
say TSA comment 'opens door to pedophiles' Children's advocates warn touching kids not a 'game' Posted: December 12, 2010 11:04 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh © 2010 WorldNetDaily It was a suggestion from a Transportation Security Administration official from several years back that airport security personnel should treat as a "game" their pat-downs of little children, but it's raising alarms among those who advocate for children because the agency has not repudiated it. The comment was from James Marchand, who was serving as TSA director in Houston, over an apparently aggressive pat-down of a 3-year-old child that left the little one screaming, "Don't touch me!" Marchand, in his explanation at the time, said, "You try to make it as best you can for that child to come through. If you can come up with some kind of a game to play with a child, it makes it a lot easier." A video of the incident, which has attracted renewed interest because of the enhanced screening procedures that were instituted just weeks ago by the TSA, is posted:
The issue is that experts confirm that making a "game" of touching often is how pedophiles will approach and then groom small children they intend for their victims. Join tens of thousands of Americans in a petition demanding action against the intrusive airport screening procedures implemented by Janet Napolitano and send a letter to Congress, President Obama and others telling them exactly what you think about the issue. "Of course this opens the door to future pedophiles, teachers, little friends and others 'playing' the 'pat down game' with children, and taking it further as the traumatized child tries to understand what is happening," Dr. Judith Reisman told WND. FULL STORY Helping kids understand that it's not
child molestation if the government does it |
| Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 Transparency prevails Judge opens child death record Kentucky.com It took a tragedy; but at long last, some light is falling on a bureaucracy that for too long has hidden from public accountability when children in its care die. |
| Pair of Oklahoma child deaths spotlight disturbing trend The November washing machine death of a Bartlesville infant and last summer's drug overdose death of a teenager at a family reunion are examples of a disturbing trend in Oklahoma. BY RANDY ELLIS Published: December 12, 2010 The Oklahoman When reading this story, I said "Oh My Gawd" at least 10 times. Apparently drug use is no longer a crime, so the agency "can't" do anything about it. The spin in this story is making me dizzy. "How is it an omnipotent CPS agent can divine the guilt of so many without proof or evidence of an offense, yet they never seem to be able to recognize obvious cases of people with real problems ending in tragedy?" -Winfred Moore |
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| Unusual case evolves around welfare, abuse of siblings By Kevin Vaughan The Denver Post Posted: 12/12/2010 01:00:00 AM MST Updated: 12/12/2010 09:01:37 AM MST I left a comment on that story-
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THE
POTENTIAL COST OF SPEAKING OUT By Dave
Hodges When do your First Amendment rights to speak out against the emergence of a totalitarian form of American government conflict with your rights to maintain custody of your children? It depends on whether your diet includes a red or blue pill. If your collective blue pill diets continue unabated, then none of you will feel the need to speak out. Everything is fine, just go back to sleep. However, when one changes the color of their diet to red, their protective parental instincts surface in order to defend their beloved children from an oppressive government who views all children as their personal property. Sherrie Wilcox is the poster child who serves to portray the victimization of middle class American parents by big government. At first glance, Sherry Wilcox appears to be an unassuming mom who would frequent her child's soccer matches and accompany her sister to the local shopping mall. However, there is nothing average about Wilcox's ability to research a topic and draw cogent conclusions as I have found her to be a courageous and gifted researcher whose blog contains some amazing information and photographs of The Georgia Guidestones, pictures of thousands of FEMA coffins stored in her home state of Georgia as well as a stunning analysis of last year's deadly Ukrainian pneumonia with information that was largely unavailable in the main stream media. [See Sherrie Wilcox's blog.] Yet, for daring to exercise her First Amendment right to question the unconstitutional and illegal practices of the current federal government (e.g., mortgage fraud), Sherrie Wilcox received a visit from visit from Homeland Security, err….. The Georgia Child Protective Services (CPSS). In the assumed defense of her child, the CPS officials accused Wilcox of mental abuse and the neglect of her child. When I hear stories of abuse and neglect, I think of extreme physical discipline, starving children and the face of a child who is left alone to fend for themselves for long periods of time. Certainly, the investigation of Sherrie Wilcox's fitness as a mother would have begun with an examination of these variables wouldn't they? Well, not in this case. The Wilcox family ordeal began just prior to Halloween when Sherrie's child was questioned at school without being advised that she had the right to have an advocate in the room with her at the time questioning. Further, the interrogation questions had nothing to with Sherrie Wilcox's fitness as a mother as her child was asked the following questions: (1) Does your mother take you camping? (2) Where do you go camping? (3) Who else goes camping with you? (4) Does your mother store food? (5) Does your mother have any guns? (6) Has your mother remodeled your home? (7) Does your mother have a safe room or a bomb shelter? (8) Has your mother talked to you about the end of the world? Being a former nationally certified mental health counselor who is intimately familiar with report requirements regarding child neglect and abuse, I fail to see the relevance of any of these questions regarding Sherrie Wilcox's fitness as a parent and why any agency charged with protecting child welfare would be concerned about camping and storing food. These questions defy all legal precedent and common sense. Upon returning home, the highly upset Wilcox child informed Sherrie about the intimidating interview and the unwarranted and intrusive nature of the questions that Georgia CPS officials asked the child at school. Wilcox promptly called CPS to inquire as to the motive behind subjecting her child to this extreme form of intimidation and mental abuse. The CPS official promptly informed her that they would be conducting an interview with her at her home in the morning. Sherrie Wilcox wisely arranged to have the ordeal videotaped by her sister and invited neighbors to witness this unique form of governmental intrusion of her parental rights. After arriving at the Wilcox home, Georgia CPS officials proceeded to ask Wilcox the following questions and levied the following accusations: 1. Does she have solar panels on her house? 2. How and where do the Wilcox's go camping? 3. Does she store food? (Note: Sherrie Wilcox is a volunteer Red Cross nurse and her supplies are in accordance with FEMA guidelines). 4. Amazingly, CPS wanted to know if her house had an alternative heating source. 5. They also wanted to know if she had ever talked about the end of the world. (When the time is right, I hope Sherrie discusses the end of the American Republic with her child). 6. CPS accused Sherrie Wilcox of being in a "top secret" (unspecified) agency whose purpose is to overthrow the United States Government. 7. She was accused of blogging 20 hours per day and neglecting her child. 8. Finally, CPS wanted to know if she had committed the heinous parental act of renovating her house. A partial video excerpt of these intrusive and illegal questions are posted on Sherrie Wilcox's blog. It is clear that the state of Georgia's CPS and their officials have been co-opted by Homeland Security to harass and profile innocent Americans who commit the unpardonable sin of speaking out against governmental wrongdoing. Is this what America has come to? FULL STORY |
| How
Common is Child Abuse and Neglect? By Megan Trent December 10, 2010 Allen County, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) |
| The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 10, 2010  Statement from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the Reauthorization of Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Family Violence Prevention and Services ActThe President is pleased that today Congress passed S. 3817 reauthorizing the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act. This important legislation will strengthen child protective services and continue life-saving programs for victims of domestic violence. The President thanks Chairman Harkin and Chairman Miller for their great work, and he particularly thanks Senator Dodd for his leadership. This legislative achievement is a fitting tribute to his many years of effort in the Senate to protect the most vulnerable of our citizens. |
| Changes coming to child abuse registry By STEVE GRAVELE, steve.gravelle@sourcemedia.net | Posted: Friday, December 10, 2010 9:00 am WCF Media DES MOINES, Iowa --- A state Supreme Court ruling will lead to changes in Iowa's child abuse registry, but those changes won't increase the risk to the state's children, Department of Human Services Director Charlie Krogmeier said Wednesday. In July, the Supreme Court ruled the DHS had exceeded its authority when it placed a woman identified only as "Jane Doe" on the registry, which includes the names of 53,000 Iowans found by DHS investigators to have abused or neglected children. The list includes people whose allegations of abuse or neglect were determined "founded" by DHS --- not necessarily those convicted in court. Doe, a victim of domestic abuse, was placed on the registry for "denial of critical care for lack of proper supervision" for failing to protect children from her abuser. More than half those on the registry are listed under denial of care. Legislators will make changes in their upcoming session to address the court's concerns. Krogmeier said he was offering his comments in case lawmakers wanted to consider other changes. "We're making the one proposal to address the issues raised in the Jane Doe case," Krogmeier said. "We're also saying, 'Here are some things we could do that we don't think will harm children.' We're not ready to recommend them at this point." The registry has evolved as legislators required more applicants for certain jobs to be screened against it. "The idea originally was to not only keep track of abused kids but to keep track of who had abused kids," DHS spokesman Roger Munns said. "Over the years it has developed into a jobscreening tool." FULL STORY |
| House
Passes CAPTA again December 8, 2010 1:46 PM  WASHINGTON,
D.C. – With resounding bipartisan support, the U.S. House of
Representatives voted today in favor of legislation that would
significantly improve and strengthen efforts to identify, treat and
prevent abuse and neglect of children in this country.The House passed S. 3817, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Reauthorization Act Of 2010 by voice vote. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation soon to accept the amended changes made by the House. I have been screaming from the housetops for OVER A YEAR about this nightmare being renewed. For some reason, not enough people cared. So for the forseeable future, American families will continue to live and die by this monster.
Tell everybody you
know. Post it on every group you belong to- Learn lots more about S.3817 HERE
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"Crime is rampant
because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it,
submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back,
immediately, then and there, where it happens. Crime is not rampant
because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors
are too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd
technicalities. The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation
of cowards and shirkers." -Jeffrey
R. Snyder American attorney, author Source: A Nation of Cowards, 113
Public Interest (Fall 1993) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jeffrey.Snyder.Quote.3449 |
| Child-Snatching to Reap Federal Funds: The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 by Hans Bader December 09, 2010 @ 3:40 pm Open Market An article called “The 7 Most Horrifying Cost-Cutting Measures of All Time” decries the role of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 in children being snatched from loving families by state officials and then put into foster homes by Child Protective Services (CPS). According to the 1997 law, “for each child adopted into a foster family, the responsible state receives $4,000 to $6,000, with an additional $20 million bonus if it exceeds the average number of adoptions from previous years.” The article says that that incentive “encourages CPS to make an increasingly liberal interpretation of the term ‘rescue.’ Consider that, a few years ago, CPS employee Pat Moore was fired for refusing to put a child in a foster home simply because everyone in the foster family had a felony conviction, and the family occasionally hired a convicted sex offender to babysit. “ Similarly, the article alleges that “when Vanessa Shanks’ child was taken away and she fought the decision in court, CPS responded . . . by taking away children of her relatives, and after Shanks finally won in court, they took away her attorney’s children.” FULL STORY |
| Disclosure of Confidential Child Abuse and Neglect Records : Summary of State Laws December 9, 2010 12:17 Docuticker Disclosure of Confidential Child Abuse and Neglect Records : Summary of State Laws Source: Child Welfare Information Gateway (HHS) This brief introduction summarizes how States address this topic in statute. To access the statutes for a specific State or territory, visit the State Statutes Search. Records of child abuse and neglect reports are maintained by State child protection or social services agencies to aid in the investigation, treatment, and prevention of child abuse cases and to maintain statistical information for staffing and funding purposes. In many States, these records and the results of investigations are maintained in databases, which often are called central registries.1 The type of information contained in registries and department records varies from State to State, as does accessibility to the information. Category: Source: |
| You Have The Right To Remain Silent: Fifth Amendment Explained by Bill Rounds December 9, 2010 Copyright © 2010 How to Vanish “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” ~ Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution The right to remain silent is a fundamental principle of liberty. It gives American citizens better privacy. The burden falls on the accuser to build a case against a person. If the accuser does not meet that burden, the accused is free to go. The accused never, ever, is required to furnish any evidence or testimony against himself.1 In other words, liberty requires that you have the right to remain silent. If the accused were forced to produce evidence that they did not commit an act, innocent people would be forced to prove a negative.2 Proving a negative is usually far more difficult, if not impossible to do. Anyone without an alibi would be convicted. No one could afford to spend even one minute alone in that kind of world.3 The right to remain silent preserves a functioning system of justice and a functioning society. FULL STORY Bill Rounds, J.D. is a California attorney. He holds a degree in Accounting from the University of Utah and a law degree from California Western School of Law. He practices civil litigation, domestic and foreign business entity formation and transactions, criminal defense and privacy law. He is a strong advocate of personal and financial freedom and civil liberties. This is merely one article of 73 by Bill Rounds J.D. 1- Which is why you should NEVER pour your heart out to a CPS agent or psych 2- Which is what an allegation and prosecution by CPS is. The accusation is the PROOF NOT innocent until proven guilty 3- Which is exactly where falsely accused parents find themselves.
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| Woman acquitted in case of dog biting social worker By Stacy Temple • December 9, 2010 News Star, Louisiana I think if I lived in Louisiana, I might have my yard full of alligators to eat these skanks. |
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Albany
CPS and Family Court Examiner December 9th, 2010 10:30 am ET Say it ain't so |
| DeBlase case points to need for people to report child abuse, says advocate Published: Thursday, December 09, 2010, 7:30 AM Jillian Kramer, Press-Register, Alabama I left a super nice long comment on that story |
| Here's a new twist
on the old lemon- Teen accused of child abuse, fought with classmate Associated Press - December 9, 2010 9:45 AM ET
A criminal complaint filed in Dodge County says Brandi Jo Winkelman struck a girl nearly 10 months older during a confrontation in a hallway at Watertown High School in October. The girl allegedly hit by Winkelman says follow-up exams showed she had some loose teeth and a slight concussion. Winkelman is facing a felony charge of child abuse by intentionally causing bodily harm, a felony, and misdemeanor disorderly conduct. FULL STORY Yes, this story made my eyes blink. A 17 year old snot is charged with child abuse for hitting a nearly 18 year old. A "child" hit a nearly "adult". Why a child abuse charge? What happened with Assault charges for this sort of crap? Oh, I know- zero evidence required. Historically, the parents of the 17 year old would be the ones blamed and destroyed over it. That may still happen anyway. |
| Posted: Dec. 9, 2010 Failing foster care needs emergency attention from new governor Detroit Free Press editorial Yet another item for Gov.-elect Rick Snyder's list of problems he will be asked to solve with little or no money: the state's still inadequate foster care system. Seriously, DHS is "failing" because it is an Organized Crime Ring.
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| Depressed foster mum found dead Published Date: 09 December 2010 By Russ Newton, The Star UK- A FOSTER mother hanged herself after three children were removed from her care by Doncaster social workers. Denise Horsfield became depressed by the break-up of her foster family and, despite the intervention of psychiatric nurses, she believed her chances of adopting one of the children had gone for good. The 52-year-old was found hanged in the garage of her Bessacarr home two days after the third child, a six-year-old girl, had been taken from the house. Mrs Horsfield's husband, John, a retired prison officer, broke down several times as he told the Doncaster inquest how badly his wife was affected by the events leading up to her death on April 15. FULL STORY Every few days, we deal with a REAL parent in the same situation. We have never had one follow through on their suicidal threats. Our point that seems to be well-taken is- "Since you are ready to sacrifice it all, how about dedicating your life to FIGHTING the dirty, rotten SOBs at CPS?" |
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| Young, alone, and homeless As numbers rise in state and nation, Boston group seeks to create shelter By David Abel Boston Globe Staff / December 9, 2010
...The rise in the number of homeless youths is traditionally difficult to track, as it is measured largely by reports from schools, shelters, and other social service agencies. Federal officials estimate at least 110,000 youths between 12 and 24 years old live on the nation’s streets. ...“We’re not sure if it’s the pressure from the economy, but we’re seeing a lot more kids where home just isn’t a safe place,’’ Yazwinski said. ...They say adult shelters are the worst possible place for the youths, many of whom have recently left the
juvenile detention system, foster care, or fled difficult situations at home. ...Federal officials at the Interagency Council on Homelessness in Washington said there are only a few shelters nationwide that are exclusively for youths. They said
the US Department of Education in the 2008-2009 academic year counted 52,950 unaccompanied homeless youths between ages 12 and 17 — 32,000 more than they counted five years before. Meanwhile, every day, CPS is creating thousands more Legal Orphans to kick out on the street. |
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WATCH
OUT FOR THE NEW HARRY POTTER MOVIE "When we first started 'Harry Potter' and cast 10-year-old Daniel Radcliffe in the title role, parents drove their 10-year-olds to see the movies. Today, those same kids are now driving themselves to the midnight shows."[1] Dan Fellman, Warner Brothers "In a chilling performance by Ralph Fiennes, the [Voldemort] character plays out like a dimensional compliment to Adolf Hitler. ... his deliberate hatred of the muggle race [humans] mirrors the Nazi internment of the Jews."[2] "Death Eaters constitute a group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort... who seek to purify the Wizarding community by eliminating the Muggle-borns. They...recognize one another by the Dark Mark on their left forearm, a sign created by Voldemort to summon them instantly to him."[3] Dark, dismal, demonic, deadly.... There's no sign of joy in this disturbing movie! Yet it captivates children, stirs love for evil, and arouses addictive cravings for more stimuli and ever darker thrills.[5] Why are the forces of evil so enticing? "These are dark times..." declared Rufus Scrimgeour, the Minister of Magic (rumored to be a vampire), as the movie begins. "Our world has never faced a greater threat."[4] He's right in more ways than one. FULL STORY |
| House
Passes CAPTA again December 8, 2010 1:46 PM WASHINGTON,
D.C. – With resounding bipartisan support, the U.S. House of
Representatives voted today in favor of legislation that would
significantly improve and strengthen efforts to identify, treat and
prevent abuse and neglect of children in this country.The House passed S. 3817, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Reauthorization Act Of 2010 by voice vote. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation soon to accept the amended changes made by the House. I have been screaming from the housetops for OVER A YEAR about this nightmare being renewed. For some reason, not enough people cared. So for the forseeable future, American families will continue to live and die by this monster?
Tell everybody you
know. Post it on every group you belong to- Learn more about S.3817 at AFRA Activism
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prof: Child porn can do some good! Theory is that offenders use images 'as substitute' for criminal activity Posted: December 08, 2010 8:45 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh © 2010 WorldNetDaily A University of Hawaii professor and director of the Pacific Center for Sex and Society is postulating that child pornography actually can serve a beneficial service to society because "potential sexual offenders use child pornography as a substitute for sex crimes against children." The idea by Milton Diamond, whose career includes a long list of studies and other works espousing the availability of pornography, however, is taking a bashing from critics. "In his study he researched how the legalization of adult pornography in the Czech Republic did not bring a rise in sex crimes against adults. He also states that when child pornography was legalized sex crimes against children were decreased. (Of course they would decrease because it would not be a crime). He believes that children would benefit from the legalization of child pornography," wrote Joy Brooks in the Examiner. "You have to stop and ask what kind of world you live in when a college professor believes that the abuse of children being legalized is a good idea," she wrote. FULL STORY |
| No changes recommended to Iowa child abuse registry, DHS leader says Blog post by Jennifer Jacobs • December 8, 2010 DesMoines Register UPDATE- Richard Wexler responds- National child welfare advocate responds to child abuse registry news |
 Bradford Publishing Co. and the National Association of Counsel for Children Release the Second Edition to “Child Welfare Law and Practice”
This new edition to the definitive legal reference for child welfare advocates presents the body of knowledge that defines child welfare law as a unique and specialized field. “Child Welfare Law and Practice” helps child welfare advocates ensure abused, neglected and otherwise endangered children receive competent legal representation. |
| The Irish Times - Tuesday, December 7,
2010 Frightening newspaper front pages can harm children, says psychologist FRONT PAGES of newspapers that scare children break the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a leading Norwegian child psychologist has said. Prof Magne Raundalen also said the brains of children subjected to long-term, low-grade fear are damaged by high levels of the cortisone hormone which may reduce their IQ by 10 per cent. Speaking at a seminar organised by the Press Council of Ireland on Children and the Media, Prof Raundalen, of the Centre for Crisis Psychology in Bergen, Norway, said newspapers were made for adults by adults, but the front page was read by children. They were frightened by startling headlines, particularly those involving child death, he said. Children who had suffered traumas in their lives could be particularly susceptible to long-term reactions, “after seeing only one frightening front page”. “These children can perceive frightening front pages in a way that is harmful to them,” he said. Prof Raundalen said an American study had shown children from “normal families” who lived with a small, but constant fear of corporal punishment had lost 10 per cent of their IQ. The cortisone hormone, produced when a person was in a state of fear, “poisoned part of the brain” central to memory, he said. Front-page headlines which scared children could be in breach of article 17 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which recognises the effects of the media on children. Prof Raundalen suggested a series of guidelines for the press when covering stories about child death on the front page. These included the exclusion of pictures of the child who has been killed, the avoidance of headlines such as “child killed by mum or dad”, and the avoidance of detailed information on the method of death. Ombudsman for Children Emily Logan suggested there should be some collaboration between her office and the media to offer guidance on reporting about children. Also speaking at the seminar, Dr Paul Connors, national director of communications with the HSE, said in all reportage on children’s issues, the benchmark before publishing should be “what is in the best interests of the child”. FULL STORY In case you don't know the CRC is a very bad thing, see the AFRA UNCRC page. And if you want to do something about stopping the dirty communist crap, see the AFRA Activism page As for the "best interest of the child" see Best interest of the child- A new "Civil Right" |
| December 7, 2010 A Cure for Child Abuse Asked to investigate the roots of child abuse, a group of social engineers focused not on its causes but its prevention By Emily Badger Miller-McCune |
| Report: Child-welfare system failing '08 deal Ed White • Associated Press • December 8, 2010 DETROIT -- Michigan's child-welfare system is failing to meet the conditions of a sweeping 2008 agreement intended to improve foster care and protective services, a court-appointed watchdog said Tuesday. Kevin Ryan's latest report traced the problems to management at the Department of Human Services under Gov. Jennifer Granholm. He said Michigan's new governor will have an opportunity after Jan. 1 to "build a high-level leadership team" and fulfill an agreement to more quickly move kids out of foster care and into permanent homes. "Unless there is a fundamental adjustment in their approach to this undertaking, it is unlikely this reform will reach most of the children and families in the foreseeable future," Ryan wrote. A New York-based group called Children's Rights, whose lawsuit led to the consent decree, had planned to ask a judge to appoint a receiver to take over Michigan's child-welfare system, but it backed off Tuesday and said Gov.-elect Rick Snyder deserves a chance to tackle the problem. "We'll consult with the new team," attorney Sara Bartosz said. I left a comment there-
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| Report:
Wikileaks cables show Texas company "helped pimp little boys to
stoned Afghan cops" Xeni Jardin at 7:25 PM Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010 boingboing In the Houston Press, an extensive blog post untangling an alarming story from the state department cables: "another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police," and apparent proof that the company procured male children for bacha bazi ("boy-play") parties. The story boils down to this: this company, headquartered in DC with Texas offices, helped pimp out little boys as sex slaves to stoned cops in Afghanistan: FULL STORY All I can say is- I sure wish CPS internal documents could be leaked. They are hardly able to keep the lid on their insane dirty-dealing as it is. |
| Teens
Who Lash Out More Likely to Hit Dates By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Published: December 07, 2010 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner MedPage Today A recent history of hitting peers or siblings was a major risk factor for violence against girlfriends or boyfriends, a survey of high school students found. |
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"Good intentions will
always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too
strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against
the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to
govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters,
but they mean to be masters." -Daniel
Webster (1782-1852), US Senator http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Daniel.Webster.Quote.9BFA |
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010 |
| Please report suspicious activity at Wal-Mart to the Department of Homeland Security Uploaded 12/7/2010 12:26:12 AM by HealthRanger |
| "I tell you, freedom and human
rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people, and the West in general, into an unbearable hell and a choking life." -Osama bin Laden, October, 2001 (quoted in NewsMax.com 2/1/02) |
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Albany
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Kate O’Beirne, crone denizen of The Capitol Gang and Washington DC editor of The National Review announces at a GOP strategy session, “I just don’t get why millions of school children qualify for school breakfasts unless we have a major wide spread problem with child neglect.” With friends like this, families don't need enemies. Perhaps someone could look up how the school lunch program started- Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (1946) So a program the
Democrats rammed up America's nose 65 years ago now becomes a "sign
of child neglect"? |
| Key
to child developing: Parental guidance Published: Dec. 6, 2010 at 11:11 PM DALLAS, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says in the age-old debate about nurture vs. nature, effective nurturing of children by parents takes nature into account. George Holden at Southern Methodist University in Dallas says parental guidance is key but child development researchers have largely ignored its importance. Holden's model -- described in the current issue of the journal Child Development Perspectives and detailed in his textbook "Parenting, A Dynamic Perspective" -- says effective parents observe, recognize and assess their children's individual genetic characteristics and then cultivate their strengths by initiating trajectories, such as enrolling children in a class, visiting people and places, or taking kids to practices. Parents sustain children's progress with encouragement and praise as well as material assistance. They also help children steer clear of negative trajectories, react to child-initiated trajectories and influence a trajectory by modeling desired behaviors. "Some factors that also can influence trajectories include the family's culture, their income and family resources and the quality of the parent-child relationship," Holden says in a statement. "What this model of parenting helps point out is that effective parenting involves guiding children in such a way as to ensure that they are developing along positive trajectories." |
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guard arrested for Internet luring of a child By Howard Pankratz The Denver Post Posted: 12/06/2010 04:34:10 PM MST Updated: 12/06/2010 04:34:20 PM MST A 59-year-old Colorado Department of Corrections officer who believed he was about to meet an underage teenager for sex has been arrested by the Jefferson County district attorney's office for investigation of Internet luring of a child. The man was identified as Arthur Frank Stafford, who worked as a prison guard at the Sterling Correctional Facility, according to Katherine Sanguinetti, DOC spokeswoman. FULL STORY |
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Monday, December 6, 2010 I personally would like to totally defund "child welfare" as currently mal- practiced and put a bunch of CPS people in prison for their Federal Crimes |
| Judge
refuses to order vaccinations By Kevin Martin, Calgary Sun Last Updated: December 2, 2010 11:23pm  Vaccinations
aren’t “essential” medical treatments, a family court judge has
ruled in refusing a Child Welfare request to order inoculations
for four kids.Judge Stephen Lipton, in a written decision released Thursday, said while the vaccinations are preferable, it wasn’t in his power to order them. Child Welfare had applied for a ruling to have the siblings immunized despite their parents’ decision not to allow the treatment. But Lipton said the four children, ranging in age from one to 12, weren’t at any present risk so no court intervention was warranted. “I find that on the facts of this case the vaccinations proposed by the caseworker don’t fall within the definition of ‘essential’ (in the legislation),” Lipton said. “The children are healthy and none of them are at imminent risk of serious harm.” Lipton noted the dangers of not getting immunized would expose the children to the risk of contracting illnesses which could cause brain injury or death. The mother refused allowing vaccines for her children while the father suggested herbal medicines would be effective. With the alarming stats on the exploding rates of autism, one can look askance at the "brain injury or death" claim from NOT being immunized. |
| WHEN
HEALING MEETS MARKETING By Investigating Journalist Jon Rappoport December 6, 2010 NewsWithViews.com ....In case you've been living in a cave for the last 30 years, drug companies and their researchers can invent any vague disease label they want to—and then they can invent five or six sub-categories of the label—and they can set out rules on how to diagnose each sliver of the label—and of course the doctors will make these diagnoses and prescribe drugs. It's marketing and “healing” at the same time. Parents who don't have a clue will submit their children to this system—especially if the government pays for it—and the children will grow up trained to think of themselves as patients/victims...and the only contest will be: who has the most drastic diagnoses and treatments? Who can most proudly wear the badge of honor as Patient? FULL STORY |
| Foster
Parents; What about Adoption? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison December 6, 2010 |
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Albany
CPS and Family Court Examiner December 6th, 2010 8:10 am ET |
Sesame Street rolls out superfood muppets sponsored by
Merck Sunday, December 05, 2010by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com |
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"[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property." -John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. Considered the ideological progenitor of the American Revolution and who, by far, was the most often non-biblical writer quoted by the Founding Fathers of the USA. 1690 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Locke.Quote.07AA "Positive laws
are tyrannical. One's individual rights -- whether they be life,
liberty, or property -- must be sacrificed by the state in order to
fulfill the positive rights of another. For example, if housing is
considered a "right," then the state will have to confiscate
wealth (property) from those who have provided shelter for themselves in
order to house those who have not.... True justice is realized when our
lives, and property are secure, and we are free to express our thoughts
without fear of retribution. Just laws are negative in nature; they
exist to thwart the violation of our natural rights. Government ought to
be the collective organization -- that is, the extension -- of the
individual's right of self-defense, and its purpose to protect our
lives, liberties, and property." "The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." -New Hampshire Constitution Source: Article 10 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/New.Constitution.Quote.5380 |
| Mass. courts’ juvenile cases plummet Drop unexpected in hard times By Peter Schworm Globe Staff / December 6, 2010 |
| Good grief! Are Americans being driven crazy? Constant bad news, bad medicine blamed for nationwide mental illness Posted: December 05, 2010 7:07 pm Eastern Eugene J. Koprowski © 2010 WorldNetDaily Also see my old editorial CPS in your life will Kill you |
| You
have really GOT to see the latest LEGALLY KIDNAPPED News
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| More parents are calling the cops for help disciplining kids by Brett Buckner Special to The Star Alabama Dec 05, 2010 I left a nice comment there. |
| Facebookers
Changing Profile Pics to Cartoon Characters to Fight Child Abuse How about a different avatar for parents who have been
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| Frustration continues in Oklahoma child welfare system The Oklahoman Editorial 1 Published: December 5, 2010 |
| "The gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and politicians who want to rule over them may be as big today as the gap between the colonies and England during the 18th century." -Scott Rasmussen in his book In Search of Self-Governance |
| Arguments set on courts' 'hostile takeover of marriage' 'Americans understand this lawsuit seeks to impose agenda that has been rejected' Posted: December 04, 2010 8:10 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh © 2010 WorldNetDaily Truth is, the hostile takeover was the No Fault Divorce-
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| DCFS investigator charged with sending threatening messages via Facebook Published: 12/4/2010 | Updated: 12/4/2010 By RODNEY HART Herald-Whig Staff Writer  An investigator for the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services was charged Friday for allegedly sending threatening messages electronically to a police officer and for other two other drug-related charges. David Leezer, 50, of Camp Point, was charged with threatening Adams County Sheriff's Investigator Brad Waddill by sending him several graphic Facebook messages. He also was charged with three other misdemeanors -- harassment through electronic communication, possession of drug paraphernalia for allegedly having a one-hitter to smoke pot when he was arrested Friday, and for possession of less than 2.5 grams of cannabis. Leezer has worked for DCFS for more than 20 years. ....In the charging document, Leezer is accused of putting Waddill "in reasonable apprehension of future bodily harm." Leezer allegedly sent Facebook messages Thursday and Friday to Waddill containing the phrases "U gonna learn a lesson" and "what time ya get up I'll be waiting down the gravel road im leaving now," according to the charging document. There were several other vulgar messages detailed in the charging document. Leezer and Waddill were involved in an investigation, but authorities declined to be more specific. FULL STORY It must be some sort of misunderstanding. CPS people are "really nice" and they simply could not get caught threatening someone. |
| Sex-Offending Teacher Asks for Castration By BOB CONNORS Updated 12:27 PM EST, Fri, Dec 3, 2010 NBC Connecticut A teacher convicted of sexually assaulting one of his students had an odd request for the judge at his sentencing Thursday. As an old cattleman who has castrated thousands of calves, I would have no problem helping this guy out. As a daddy with daughters, I would LOVE to "help him out of his misery". If the system would let DADDIES fix these problems, then there would be a REAL deterrent. |
| In Great Britain, thousands of children stolen by the government 27.11.10 - 12:25 RTBF.be The British social services remove thousands of children per annum to their families. Without apparent reasons, these children are given to the adoption. Social workers who do not need “not to have a reason, they need only an excuse”. On February 24, 2010 with the House of Commons, the Gordon Brown Prime Minister and the two leaders of the opposition present excuses to the thousands of British children torn off to the poor families during decades. Children then off-set in Australia and in other Commonwealth Countries. These families deserve “unlimited excuses”, say the politicians. And yet, several months later, nothing really changed. The social services continue their mission, almost in all impunity. At the beginning of the decade, the government of Tony Blair had even granted “incentive wages” with the social workers, to stimulate the market of the adoption. Since 1967, the children are not sent any more in Australia, but they “stolen” and are always placed on the market of the adoption, almost without any right of recourse. Practices close to kidnapping. Social services, the “SS” The families do not hesitate to call the social services by their initial, the “SS”. “SS” which removes the infants at the hospital. Or in the family hearth, with the assistance of the police force. For which reasons? They seem not very clear in general. The choice is justified by the social workers. But the parents do not have access to these files. They are unaware of all or almost loads which are retained against them. The here are definite ones as being “inapt to educate their own children”. The actual story is published n Belgium and written in French, and is located here. To read this I used Yahoo Bable Fish Of course, "Social Services" are the same evil thing all over the earth in every westernized country, and apparently has been spreading to EVERY country. As a side note, or perhaps THE POINT- "SS" has a lot more sinister meaning to Europeans than it does in the US. |
| DHS Responds: Report sheds light on inaction prior to baby’s death By Tim Hudson E-E County Reporter Friday, December 3, 2010 11:10 AM CST
Trammel was found dead in a washing machine on Nov. 4. Her mother, 26-year-old Lyndsey Dawn Fiddler, is currently being held on $100,000 bond on charges of child neglect. The OCCY report, which was released on Tuesday, indicated there had been several reports regarding the care of Trammel and two other children, ages 5 and 8, in the home and that the reports dated as far back as March 2009. The DHS release sheds some light on possible reasons for inaction in the case. This story is absolutely dumb-founding to us. CPS kidnaps kids on the slightest whim or suspicion and they let this case go after SIX reports. |
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Friday, December 3, 2010 |
| Congress passes sweeping child nutrition bill December 02, 2010|By the CNN Wire Staff The House of Representatives passed a sweeping child nutrition bill Thursday designed to promote better eating habits in part by giving the federal government more authority to set standards for food sold in vending machines and other venues on school grounds. Among other things, the $4.5 billion measure provides more money to poor areas to subsidize free meals and requires schools to abide by health guidelines drafted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To help offset the higher cost of including more fruits and vegetables, the bill increases the reimbursement rate for school lunches. The bill, which passed 264-157 largely along party lines, has already been approved by the Senate and is a top priority for first lady Michelle Obama. It now advances to the president's desk to be signed into law. Some Democrats had objected to the fact that the bill is funded in part by stripping $2.2 billion from the federal food stamp program. Congress also voted over the summer to take money from the program to fund legislation sending money to cash-strapped states to avoid teacher layoffs. The cuts largely negate a spending increase provided to the food stamp program by the 2009 economic stimulus plan. Administration officials reportedly have promised anxious liberals that they will work to find ways to restore the higher funding levels. The first lady has championed the child nutrition bill as part of her "Let's Move" initiative to combat child obesity in the United States. The totally insane communists are ramrodding every single rotten thing through the Lame Duck session they can. |
| Former teacher sentenced to life in prison for child sexual abuse By NICOLE MARSHALL World Staff Writer Published: 12/2/2010 12:38 PM Last Modified: 12/2/2010 1:04 PM A former teacher who pleaded guilty to molesting a teen he met through a mentoring program was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday. Tulsa County District Judge Carlos Chappelle sentenced John Gisler, 42, to concurrent life sentences for three counts of child sexual abuse. He also received 20-year sentences for single counts of lewd molestation and possession of child pornography. In October, Gisler halted his own trial by pleading guilty to the five felonies. The conviction asserts that between June 26, 2005, and March 1, 2009, Gisler engaged in various types of sexual abuse with a boy he was assigned to mentor through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Evidence indicated that in June 2009, while the teenager was residing at the Tulsa Boys Home and being treated for substance abuse and other issues, he disclosed that he was molested by his Big Brother. FULL STORY |
| Lifting the Veil Blog Supreme Court Reviews Virginia Blocking Abuse and Neglect Investigations in State Care Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 7:38pm |
| LA County Childrens Services Worker Allegedly Threatened To Take Kids Away From Mom As Part Of Sexual Coercion By Dennis Romero, Thu., Dec. 2 2010 @ 9:35AM LA Weekly
Police said county Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) worker Yadullah "Eddie" Lorghaba was arrested and subsequently charged on suspicion of felony sexual battery following his alleged attack on a woman whose kids he was checking on in Woodland Hills in September. As if the DCFS hasn't had enough recent trouble. The 30-year-old victim said the 53-year-old suspect attacked her and even threatened to come back in a week for a "follow-up visit." The woman reported the attack to the DCFS, and officials there put Lorghaba on leave. District Attorney's officials said the suspect left evidence -- DNA evidence. He's out on $75,000 bail, so hide your moms (just in case). In fact, cops want to know if this suspect might have done this before. Anyone with information on Lorghaba was asked to call detectives at 818-756-3375. EVERYBODY should know about
this-
...The most difficult case of all involves a subject who has an ideal occupation for any child molester: a therapist who specializes in treating troubled children. This offender need only sit in his office while society preselects the most vulnerable victims and brings them to him. The victims are by definition “troubled” and unlikely to be believed if they do make an allegation So is there little doubt that a pervert CPS guy wouldn't be taking advantage of helpless VULNERABLE young mothers? |
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of local pediatrician charged with first-degree murder of daughter set; Dr. Deborah Mark and husband's trial will begin last day in May 2011 By: LAURIE EVERETT/Managing Editor Posted: Thursday, December 2, 2010 10:21 am December 1, 2010 - A trial date has been set in the cases of Lebanon pediatrician Dr. Deborah Mark charged with first-degree murder of her adopted daughter, and her husband, Steven Mark, charged with multiple counts of child abuse. According to Assistant District Attorney Tom Swink, the case is set for trial May 31 and June 1-3. "These dates were set in a very recent arraignment," said Swink. That arraignment was on Nov. 23. Mt. Juliet detectives described this as the "worse case of child abuse" they've ever seen. Lead Det. Bonnie Harris and Det. David Stolinsky presented overwhelming evidence to the Wilson County Grand Jury on this case of alleged child abuse. During a September press conference held at Mt. Juliet City Hall, Harris described the alleged abuse as "substantial." "There was bruising from head to toe," she said. She said the child arrived from China about 100 days before the alleged abuse and the Marks had "custody." She noted they believed the abuse "occurred" over time and most likely started about the time the little girl came to live with the Marks at their residence in the Autumn Ridge Subdivision in Mt. Juliet. FULL STORY (registration required) |
| IC3 Scam Alerts Thu, 02 Dec 2010 Fraudsters Preying on Individuals Who are Wanting to Adopt Seriously, as an old daddy to 10 kids, I think people who want to adopt are either fools or mentally ill. At the very least, utterly clueless. |
| Blaming DSS for child's death is tempting, but usually wrong Posted: Thursday, Dec. 02, 2010 From Selena Childs, project director for the N.C. Child Welfare Workforce Collaborative Project at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Social Work and former executive director of the N.C. Child Fatality Task Force: FULL STORY I left a nice, hot, juicy comment there. |
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Thursday, December 2, 2010 |
| Former DCF worker gets 5 years' probation By JAY STAPLETON, Staff writer Posted in: East Volusia Tagged: DCF December 2, 2010 12:05 AM Posted in: East Volusia DAYTONA BEACH, Florida- A former case manager for a local foster care agency was sentenced Tuesday to five years' probation for falsifying records, prosecutors said. Damion Hall, 29, of Port Orange pleaded no contest to nine counts of falsifying records and forgery. FULL STORY Obviously, this is not much of a crime if it's for such a "good cause". HuH? |
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"The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school." -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Source: The Complete Works of Frederick Nietzsche, 152 (O. Levy Ed. 1974) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Friedrich.Nietzsche.Quote.EE04 "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidarity to pure wind." -George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Orwell.Quote.53B7 "The state spends much
time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is
and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than
negative." - Hans Hermann Hoppe
Source: A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism |
| FAU Receives $5.9 Million Grant for Child Welfare Workforce Development Released: 12/1/2010 9:00 AM EST Source: Florida Atlantic University Newswise - Florida Atlantic University received a five-year grant renewal of $5,975,000 for a Title IV-E* Child Welfare Education Program from Florida’s Department of Children and Families, for a program designed to educate and train social work graduates to work as child welfare professionals. FAU is serving as the lead institution of the project. It is a collaborative effort with other state schools that are members of the Florida Association of the Deans and Directors of the Schools of Social Work (FADD): Florida A&M University, Florida International University, Florida State University, the University of Central Florida, the University of South Florida and the University of West Florida. “We are so pleased to have received this renewal grant from Florida’s Department of Children and Families,” said FAU President Mary Jane Saunders. “This type of program is a win-win situation for students and for local agencies responding to our community needs. This grant will help educate and train social workers who will be able to work with the complex needs of children in foster care and adoption.” Students accepted into the program will obtain specialized professional training in child welfare with opportunities for post-graduation employment, which will then enable local agencies to hire qualified child welfare professionals. As part of the collaborative nature of the grant, the deans of social work from the participating universities will work with Florida’s Department of Children and Families to develop budget, policies and curriculum. All of the schools will receive money to hire one to two faculty members whose duties include working individually with stipend students and teaching specialized child welfare courses. In addition, the program offers internships in foster care and adoption agencies. After completion of the stipend program, students have a requirement of employment for one year in a child welfare agency. And the bullshit drones on for many more paragraphs I gather that being a "specialized professional in child welfare" means being a specialist in maximizing the Federal money to the agencies for kidnapping kids. *Part E—Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance |
| Posted: 2:50 PM Dec 1, 2010 Child Abuse Suspect Walks Free Christopher Dodson, accused of child abuse for fracturing the skull of his 4 week old daughter back in 2009, is now a free man. Reporter: KKTV Colorado- Christopher Dodson, accused of child abuse for fracturing the skull of his 4 week old daughter back in 2009, is now a free man. I left a comment on that story-
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| LA County child abuse investigator arrested Wednesday, December 1, 2010 (12-01) 18:31 PST Los Angeles, CA (AP) Police say a Los Angeles County child abuse investigator has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting the mother of a child he was assigned to assess. Yadulla Eddie Lorghaba, a Department of Children and Family Services employee, was arrested Wednesday for alleged felony sexual battery and later released on $75,000 bail. The Los Angeles Times reports the mother was being investigated after she was arrested for alleged shoplifting in September. The woman told Lorghaba she would do anything to keep her child with her. She told investigators that's when Lorghaba allegedly took her into a room and sexually assaulted her. Police found Lorghaba's DNA in saliva on the woman's bra. Lorghaba has worked for the county for 13 years. Here's the same story and a video at KABC TV in Los Angeles |
| Trailer to new video: DHS Give Us Back Our Children!
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010 |
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nurturing your child's self-esteem Posted: November 30, 2010 1:00 am Eastern Dennis Prager © 2010 By now, most people (with the exception of many psychotherapists) recognize that the self-esteem movement officially launched by California in 1986 has been at best silly and at worst injurious to society, despite whatever small benefit it may have had to some individuals. The movement was begun by California Assemblyman John Vasconcellos. As the New York Times reported, "Mr. Vasconcellos, a 53-year-old Democrat, is described by an aide as 'the most radical humanist in the Legislature.'" In an interview at the time, Vasconcellos told me he had personally benefited from therapy. It enabled him to improve the poor self-esteem he had inherited from his childhood. He therefore concluded that improving other people's self-esteem would greatly help society. And so, California created its Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility, whose guiding principle was to raise young people's self-esteem in order to increase the number of socially responsible people in society. This belief – that increasing self-esteem among the members of society will increase goodness in society – spread through the rest of America like proverbial wildfire. It turns out, however, that the premise was entirely misguided. There is no correlation between goodness and high self-esteem. But there is a correlation between criminality and high self-esteem. FULL STORY I sure never saw anything but evil come from it with my kids. Rewards have to be earned, or they mean NOTHING. |
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young girls: Binge-drinking culture 'creating a generation of aggressive
and out-of-control women' By Louise Eccles Last updated at 12:32 PM on 29th November 2010 London Mail The number of teenage girls who are physically aggressive and lash out at school and at home has risen at an alarming rate, experts claimed yesterday. More and more girls are binge drinking and – tired of being regarded as the passive sex – are emulating male behaviour. The disturbing trend has been noted by the British Association of Anger Management, which is dealing with increasing numbers of ‘out-of-control’ and aggressive young women. FULL STORY As if the entire militant feminist thing was never a problem. The snots of yesteryear are today's CPS agents. |
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| Nov. 30, 2010, 2:21 p.m. EST Hitachi Consulting Wins $3.8 Million Contract with the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs for Improved Social Services Case Management DALLAS, Nov 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Hitachi Consulting, a leading provider of management and IT consulting services and solutions for both government and business, announced today that it has been awarded a $3.8 million, multi-year contract with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to develop and implement a financial assistance and social services case management system. BIA's Human Services Program strives to improve the quality of life for individual Indians that live on or near Indian reservations and to protect the children, elderly and disabled from abuse and neglect. The program consists of direct funding and activities related to social services, welfare assistance, Indian child welfare, and program oversight. To administer and improve the overall effectiveness of the program, BIA has selected a Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SharePoint solution to replace an obsolete mainframe application and transition to a fully modernized case management environment. "Hitachi Consulting is proud to work with BIA to improve the administration and delivery of this important program," said John Bush, Senior Vice President and U.S. Public Sector practice leader for Hitachi Consulting. "We are pleased that our extensive experience in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 combined with our business process knowledge matched BIA's specific requirements. We look forward to leveraging these differentiators to help BIA strengthen its social services program and achieve new operating efficiencies." "By using Dynamics CRM as a line of business application, public sector leaders and elected officials now have the ability to execute on their agency's mission effectively, while demonstrating immediate success and return on investment. We are pleased that the BIA will be working closely with Hitachi Consulting to deliver such an important mission critical application on the Dynamics CRM application,"* said Radu Burducea, Director of Dynamics CRM, Microsoft US Federal. FULL STORY * Impressed by techno-babble bullshit? Generate all you want here |
| UNICEF's
effective attack on inter-country adoption Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - The Red Thread: An Adoptive Family Forum by Andrea Poe Washington Times NEW YORK, N.Y.- UNICEF has undergone worldwide scrutiny in regard to its position on inter-country adoption. And for good reason. Its position that a child’s birthplace and culture is superior to a stable home in any other place or culture has had dire consequences on some adoptees around the world. FULL STORY Warning- This article is likely to make you mad. And if it doesn't, you don't know what is going on. |
 High court says LA County doesn't have to pay for mistake in child abuse caseAssociated Press Updated: 11/30/2010 09:16:22 AM CST WASHINGTON- The Supreme Court says Los Angeles County does not have to pay damages to a couple listed as child abusers even though they were declared innocent years ago. I guess this is what is called "sustainable government". To hell with the little people being ground up by this monster. |
 November 30, 2010 Status of State Resolutions A number of state legislatures have taken up resolutions opposing ratification of the
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, or urging Congress to pass the
Parental Rights Amendment to the States for ratification. A few have even done both. |
| Ghosted Psychiatry
Textbook, Penned by Drs. Nemeroff & Schatzberg Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:59:25 -0500 Alliance for Human Research Protection A Catalyst for Debate www.ahrp.org FYI  A
letter of complaint by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
was sent to the director of the National Institutes of Health,
documenting $66.8 million in NIH grants
over the last five years awarded to a handful of psychiatrists who used
ghostwriters for scientific publications.The instances in the letter involve ghostwriting by only one company--Scientific Therapeutics Information (STI)-- and involve only one drug--GlaxoSmithkline's (GSK) antidepressant, Paxil. Duff Wilson of The New York Times reports that previously sealed GlaxoSmithKline documents reveal that a textbook in psychiatry, whose listed authors are Charles Nemeroff, MD and Alan Schatzberg, MD, was actually ghostwritten by Sally Laden of STI. GSK paid the ghostwriter and the
"authors" who penned their names to the book. Surely that is a dubious distinction in academic
medicine! Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav |
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
| Foster Care System Failing To Protect Those Who Need It The Most Posted by Jonathan Rosenfeld on November 29, 2010 Child Injury Laws Blog |
| Psalm
127:3- Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from
him New International Version (©1984) Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among proletarians, and in public prostitution. The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. -Communist Manifesto of 1848 Which worldview do you suppose CPS espouses? |
| B.C. children's watchdog slams government Last Updated: Monday, November 29, 2010 | 12:48 PM PT CBC News B.C.'s children's watchdog has issued another scathing report on the province's child welfare system and its progress reforming its operations, on Monday morning in Victoria. Government never has to meet service plans. Parents on the other hand-
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Parents; Bridging the gap? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison November 29, 2010 |
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Monday, November 29, 2010 |
| AMERICANS HIDING FROM REALITY: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY By Frosty Wooldridge November 29, 2010 NewsWithViews.com NBC’s Brian Williams last week reported, “The latest figures show 72 percent of African-American newborns in the United States arrive from single mothers, most of them teenagers.” (Date: November 7, 2010, NBC Nightly News) They immediately land on welfare rolls as “Aid to Dependent Children.” Similar figures include Hispanic teen single mothers. These unmarried teen mothers fail to graduate from high school—while they birth two, three, four and more children while living full-time off welfare. The rate of U.S. taxpayer welfare dollars for this new generation of illiterate, irresponsible, unemployed and un-trainable armada of citizens and non-citizens—grows annually with massive immigrant loading of 3.1 million. (Source: www.cis.org, Dr. Steven Camarata) Legal immigrant mothers birth 900,000 newborns annually within the United States. Additionally, figures show that an average of 350,000 to 400,000 illegal alien un-wed women and pregnant visa over-stayers also land on welfare rolls—paid for by U.S. taxpayers. U.S. citizens must pay for assisted housing, medical care, breakfasts and lunches, food stamps, K-12 education and more. Seventeen percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans were born to unwed mothers in 2008. (Source: David Salano, KIAH TV Houston, November 7, 2010) "It's unbelievable. I didn't realize the number was so astounding," said Kathleen Zein, a native of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti living in Houston. "I think the report is very sad. Hopefully things will change around, but it's an ongoing process. It's just bad choices, and they don't have the right mentors to guide them and [provide them with the appropriate way of] protecting themselves.” Today, the American Reading Foundation offers these educational facts: The United States houses 42 million Americans and non-citizens that cannot read, write or perform simple math. Another 50 million American citizens cannot read past the 4th grade level. ILLITERACY DEFINES THE THIRD WORLD FULL STORY "Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov] (1870 - 1924), First Leader of the Soviet Union |
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"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 (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist,
Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic |
Also see Front Page items removed in November 2010
A former financial tech with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $156,728.71 in restitution.
Mission
Critical Need-to-know info- On June 1, 2010 the 
...State education officials counted 13,090 homeless students in the last academic year — an 85 percent increase from five years before. Of those, 735 were defined as unaccompanied, out of the custody of their parents or legal guardians. That is more than double the number five years before.
