Child Welfare System
Must Grow Up
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
By Wendy McElroy- Fox News

The California child welfare system is such a disaster
 that even the state's Department of Social Services admits
 families are aggressively torn apart
and children unnecessarily placed in foster care.

Los Angeles Daily News
Study: Kids rushed into foster system
By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer

Monday, September 29, 2003 

Too many children have been unnecessarily placed in foster care because of a "perverse financial incentive" that encourages local governments to earn money by bringing youngsters into the system, a new state report says.

The study by the California Department of Social Services also says too much emphasis has been placed on investigating whether parents abused or neglected their children while not enough has been done to help families overcome their problems.

"Over a period of years, the original vision for supporting and healing families through the child welfare system has deteriorated into an adversarial and coercive approach," DSS Director Rita Saenz said.

See all of

INTRODUCTION:
HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE
BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN
at the
NATIONAL COALITION FOR CHILD PROTECTION REFORM
53 Skyhill Road (Suite 202) / Alexandria, Va., 22314

FALSE ALLEGATIONS: WHAT THE DATA REALLY SHOW

As the previous paper in this series noted, of the roughly 2.7 million reports alleging child abuse every year, about two-thirds typically are false.

But to a child saver, there is virtually no such thing as a false allegation of child abuse. False reports are labeled "unfounded" or "unsubstantiated" but child savers insist that's not the same thing as false. They offer several reasons why, in all likelihood, any parent accused of child abuse must be guilty. Such arguments are a classic example of a half-truth. They are, quite literally, half of the truth.

Of course, America's stumbling, bumbling child-saving bureaucracy is going to mislabel some real cases of abuse -- some guilty families will be let off the hook after an investigation. But that same bureaucracy repeatedly labels innocent families guilty.

This question was examined by a major federal study, commonly known as the second National Incidence Study or NIS2. This study second-guessed child protective workers, re-checking records to see if they had reached the right conclusion. The researchers found that protective workers were at least twice as likely and perhaps as much as six times more likely to wrongly label an innocent family guilty as they were to wrongly label a guilty family innocent. Thus, not only are about  two-thirds of all allegations false, chances are that figure is an underestimate.

A State Agency With the Power to 'Kidnap With Impunity'
Tuesday, July 31, 2001
By Wendy McElroy

State's Child Protection Agencies Collude with Judges to Defraud Federal Government
© Nev Moore Jan. '02
Nev Moore is a co-founder of American Family Rights Association

This article also published at Sierra Times

From CPS Watch, ©2000

Dorothy's Never Coming Home:
New Law Puts Families in Crisis

States Report They are Increasing Efforts to Take Children From Their Homes to Collect Federal Bounty

Child Removal Lacks Due Process
By David Wagner

The Victims of Profane Justice
(The woes of the falsely accused)
http://www.ourhealthtoday.com
(UK site, but the CPS nightmare is identical)

Adoption Subsidy
These funds are not offered to poverty-stricken families.
Join Hands.com

NATIONAL ADVISORY ON ORGANIZED CRIME
OPERATING IN THE CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM

The recent horror story of a fifteen-month delay in Florida officials discovering that foster child Rilya Wilson had apparently been kidnapped by persons knowledgeable of the inner workings of the child protection system was due to the systematic falsification of child protection system records. This falsification of child protection system records is part of a national pattern of organized crime. It is not an isolated incident.

James Roger Brown, Director
THE SOCIOLOGY CENTER
220 North Willow, Suite 222 North Little Rock, AR 72114 
(501) 374-1788
thesociologist@aol.com

ALERT-"No American Left Alone!"
From: Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt, author of-

Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) receives an average of one call per day from a home-school parent who is facing a social worker at his or her door. Over 90 percent of the "tips" social workers receive are anonymous. Nonetheless, social workers still try to enter the house and interrogate the children privately.