Critique of Child Protective Services

I wrote a scathing report entitled,

The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services. Thank you.

The report cost me my Senate seat.

Here's some copies of the report, if you'd like to get one.

However, there are causes worth losing over.

This is one.

I'm going to talk about some of the problems

and some realistic, maybe, solutions for families and children.

Maybe look to some steps that we can take.

Tonight, I'm talking about those children removed from their homes intentionally for profit.

Children are seized unnecessarily from their families due to the federal aid created in 1974,

entitled the Adoption and Safe Families Act.

It offers financial incentives to the states that increase adoption numbers.

To receive the adoption incentives or bonuses,

local CPS must have more children.

They must have more merchandise to sell.

Funding is available when a child is placed in a foster home with strangers or placed in a mental health facility

and medicated, usually against the parent's wishes.

Parents are victimized by the system that makes a profit for holding children

longer and bonuses for not returning children to their parents.

This is abuse of power.

It is lack of accountability.

It is a growing criminal political phenomenon spreading around the globe.

Oftentimes, but not always,

poor parents are targeted to lose their children

because they do not have the wherewithal to hire an attorney or fight the system.

Being poor and lacking proper housing does not mean your children should be removed.

CPS has redefined poor to mean psychologically inferior.

Therefore, it is in the best interest of the child to be removed.

Best interest, of course, has also been redefined at the child's expense.

It has been reported over and over that

six times as many children die in foster care than in the general public.

Once a child is legally kidnapped

and placed in official safety,

the child is far more likely to suffer abuse, including sexual molestation.

and or rape.

Case workers and social workers are often guilty of fraud.

They withhold and destroy evidence.

They seek wrongly to terminate parental rights while being protected by state immunity.

There is a huge bureaucracy made up of judges, court-appointed attorneys,

guardian ad litems,

social workers, state psychologists, psychiatrists, foster parents, adoptive parents, and on and on

who are looking to the children in state care for their job security.

Judges have control over private living arrangements and income of 48.3 million Americans.

The United States Census Bureau reported in 2002 that 40 billion in transfer payments

were made between households of custody parents and other parents.

That money, 40 billion,

is under the direction and control of family court judges in

environments covered with confidentiality laws that protect the wrong people.