"... Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will... law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.." Thomas Jefferson.
"... The most pernicious form of tyranny is that which disguises itself as a benefactor to it's victims." Robert L. Schultz.
"... Crouch down and lick the hands of those who feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams.
According to a February 27th, 2014, report in The Boston Globe over 134 children under foster care were listed as missing in the state of Massachusetts. Todd Wallack of The Globe wrote that while this was a factual number former DCF Director Olga Roche still testified before a House Committee that all the children under DCF care were alive and safe.
“Can you give me and the other 6 million people of the Commonwealth the assurance that you know that every single one of those 36,000 children in your care today are present, alive, and healthy?” asked state Representative David P. Linsky, chairman of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight. “Can you give me that assurance that there are no other Jeremiah Olivers out there today?”
“Yes,” Olga Roche said firmly. Asked whether she was “100 percent confident,” Roche said yes again.
Conna Craig formerly of the Hoover Institution’s Institute for Children appeared on I-Heart Radio in
January of 2014. She believed a lot of these missing children ended up in the human trafficking industry.
The money that foster parents receive is called Title-A, or Title Allotment. Some states require that children remain under Title-A until 26 but most children end up getting kicked out of foster care at 18. Usually there is little support system for these (now) grown children. Conna Craig went on to state that foster parents received anywhere from $300-$600 per month in 2014. That number has risen to $600-$800.
This begs an obvious question. Between the money from the federal level, state level and the constant yearly rise in appropriations where does CPS get off complaining about a lack of funding to monitor children under their care? It is the same mindset as teachers' unions demanding more money while the school dropout rate continues to increase, school curriculum gets stupider, children attend rat infested schools. Meanwhile many school superintendents get six figure salaries.
Although Family Services have been around since the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935 a huge nail in the coffin for family and parental rights didn't occur until the landmark 1993 legislation known as The Violence Against Women Act. Laudably, this act strengthens the laws against rape and targeted violence against women in general and has brought awareness of such violence and created advocacy groups, legal strategies and special courts to handle it.
Between 1993 to 2010, the rate of intimate partner violence declined 67%;
More victims are reporting domestic and sexual violence to police, and reports
to police are resulting in more arrests.
Odd, how can that be? If domestic violence has been on a steady decline, why are there more arrests? Wouldn't you see a decline in arrests?
All states have authorized warrantless arrests in misdemeanor domestic
violence cases where the responding officer determines that probable cause
exists;
All states provide for criminal sanctions for the violation of a civil
protection order.
Police can arrest you based on hearsay and and/or an unsubstantiated claim of abuse and you can be imprisoned even if it is the accuser violating that order. There is also, what one website accurately calls "The Snitch Network"
Other people can also report to the hotline: A nasty neighbor, an angry spouse making a false report to get an advantage in a divorce by using DCF to do their dirty work, an upset relative trying to get revenge, a jilted boyfriend, etc. The statute is set up so that anyone can play DCF for a chump. And, since there is no penalty for false reporting, (and it is more often used because of that purpose). If the emergency is slightly less pressing, the DCF can go to court first and present a secret affidavit to a Juvenile Court judge in a secret hearing, where the parents are not there to contest it. The judge will usually issue an order - called a "mittimus" - allowing custody to DCF and giving them authority to kidnap the child. If the court is closed on a night or weekend, or the emergency is actually horrific, they can just go in and take the kids without any delay and then come in the next date the court is open to have the details worked out.
"... The most pernicious form of tyranny is that which disguises itself as a benefactor to it's victims." Robert L. Schultz.
"... Crouch down and lick the hands of those who feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams.
According to a February 27th, 2014, report in The Boston Globe over 134 children under foster care were listed as missing in the state of Massachusetts. Todd Wallack of The Globe wrote that while this was a factual number former DCF Director Olga Roche still testified before a House Committee that all the children under DCF care were alive and safe.
“Can you give me and the other 6 million people of the Commonwealth the assurance that you know that every single one of those 36,000 children in your care today are present, alive, and healthy?” asked state Representative David P. Linsky, chairman of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight. “Can you give me that assurance that there are no other Jeremiah Olivers out there today?”
“Yes,” Olga Roche said firmly. Asked whether she was “100 percent confident,” Roche said yes again.
Conna Craig formerly of the Hoover Institution’s Institute for Children appeared on I-Heart Radio in
January of 2014. She believed a lot of these missing children ended up in the human trafficking industry.
The money that foster parents receive is called Title-A, or Title Allotment. Some states require that children remain under Title-A until 26 but most children end up getting kicked out of foster care at 18. Usually there is little support system for these (now) grown children. Conna Craig went on to state that foster parents received anywhere from $300-$600 per month in 2014. That number has risen to $600-$800.
But once that spigot gets turned off at age 18 what incentive is there for the foster parents to hold onto the grown child? According to the American Civil Liberties Union over 40% of (former) foster care children end up on Welfare as Adults. What was once a private endeavor is now a bloated government agency with over half a million children in foster care limbo. In fact, the number of children processing through the system is beginning to outpace the natural birth of children in the US.
The higher the numbers grow so too does the Federal matching dollars.
In 2021 the Child Welfare League of America (CEO Linda Spears-former DCF Head for Massachusetts) published a testimonial painting a grimmer picture of the situation.
"According to the annual Child Maltreatment Report, for fiscal year 2021, there are nationally an estimated 600,000 victims of child abuse and neglect. Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies received a national estimate of just under 4 million (3,987,000) total referrals, including approximately 7.18 million children. Forty-six states reported that an estimated 1,761,128 children received prevention services, and the biggest source of federal funding for these services was the IV-B Promoting Safe and Stable Families program. However, a large portion of children and families reported to CPS for suspected child maltreatment do not receive post-response services, and increased funding for Title IV-B would give states the ability to support additional children and families.”
In 2022 the highest annually paid salary at DCF in Massachusetts was over $217,000.
In an old 1995 article Conna Craig makes this heartbreaking point.
"The problem lies not with the children. What keeps kids bound to state care are the tentacles of a bureaucratic leviathan: a public funding scheme that rewards and extends poor-quality foster care; an anti-adoption bias that creates numerous legal and regulatory barriers; and a culture of victimization that places the whims of irresponsible parents above the well-being of their children."
The system is only interested in the system, not what the system is supposed to advocate for.
The system is only interested in the system, not what the system is supposed to advocate for.
Although Family Services have been around since the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935 a huge nail in the coffin for family and parental rights didn't occur until the landmark 1993 legislation known as The Violence Against Women Act. Laudably, this act strengthens the laws against rape and targeted violence against women in general and has brought awareness of such violence and created advocacy groups, legal strategies and special courts to handle it.
Today it is labelling Parental Rights groups as Domestic Terrorists.
Unfortunately, no law stays within the realm of why it was created in the first place. Today the ability of women to declare their spouse dangerous or violent is foggy at best and highly non-specific at worst. A woman can accuse her spouse of anything, and the family court system is designed to assist her in her pursuits.
Unfortunately, no law stays within the realm of why it was created in the first place. Today the ability of women to declare their spouse dangerous or violent is foggy at best and highly non-specific at worst. A woman can accuse her spouse of anything, and the family court system is designed to assist her in her pursuits.
According to Father Against Divorce Discrimination over 65% of all 51A abuse reports are found to be false. Over 80% of all filed reports have the father as the defendant. 85% of all custody cases defacto default to the mother. Another egregious component of this law is if there are guns in the home. A spurned parental partner can claim they are in fear and that the accused spouse has weapons. ATF shows up alongside CPS and removes your guns AND your children.
This has given CPS a whole new crop of children to harvest. Law enforcement is mandated to report to CPS all domestic violence reports no matter what the level, cause, and regardless of the facts. Restraining orders are handed out like Halloween candy separating fathers from children. This creates a division in the family unit making it easier for CPS to brainwash the custodial parent into compliance to their orders. Any attempt by the father to fight it is a useless endeavor.
Some interesting factoids to come out of the VAWA are worth a second look:
This has given CPS a whole new crop of children to harvest. Law enforcement is mandated to report to CPS all domestic violence reports no matter what the level, cause, and regardless of the facts. Restraining orders are handed out like Halloween candy separating fathers from children. This creates a division in the family unit making it easier for CPS to brainwash the custodial parent into compliance to their orders. Any attempt by the father to fight it is a useless endeavor.
Some interesting factoids to come out of the VAWA are worth a second look:
Between 1993 to 2010, the rate of intimate partner violence declined 67%;
More victims are reporting domestic and sexual violence to police, and reports
to police are resulting in more arrests.
Odd, how can that be? If domestic violence has been on a steady decline, why are there more arrests? Wouldn't you see a decline in arrests?
All states have authorized warrantless arrests in misdemeanor domestic
violence cases where the responding officer determines that probable cause
exists;
All states provide for criminal sanctions for the violation of a civil
protection order.
Police can arrest you based on hearsay and and/or an unsubstantiated claim of abuse and you can be imprisoned even if it is the accuser violating that order. There is also, what one website accurately calls "The Snitch Network"
Other people can also report to the hotline: A nasty neighbor, an angry spouse making a false report to get an advantage in a divorce by using DCF to do their dirty work, an upset relative trying to get revenge, a jilted boyfriend, etc. The statute is set up so that anyone can play DCF for a chump. And, since there is no penalty for false reporting, (and it is more often used because of that purpose). If the emergency is slightly less pressing, the DCF can go to court first and present a secret affidavit to a Juvenile Court judge in a secret hearing, where the parents are not there to contest it. The judge will usually issue an order - called a "mittimus" - allowing custody to DCF and giving them authority to kidnap the child. If the court is closed on a night or weekend, or the emergency is actually horrific, they can just go in and take the kids without any delay and then come in the next date the court is open to have the details worked out.
(DCF Motto: We don't need no stinkin' warrant.) "
Stephan Baskerville, author of the book "Taken Into Custody" wrote a magazine article entitled, "Married to the State."
"Children raised without intact families do not as readily absorb concepts such as family privacy, sacrificial love, parental authority, limited government, or civic virtue. For their rules and values come not from parents but from government officials, who have ultimate sovereignty over their lives: courts, lawyers, social workers, forensic therapists, public-school bureaucrats, and police. These are the figures they must obey rather than their parents. Thus, children whose authority figures are government officials cannot distinguish the private from the public and come to see the public sphere as a realm not of civic duty and community leadership but of abstract ideology, government funding, professional employment, career advancement, and state power, in whose growth they acquire a vested interest."
Stephan Baskerville, author of the book "Taken Into Custody" wrote a magazine article entitled, "Married to the State."
"Children raised without intact families do not as readily absorb concepts such as family privacy, sacrificial love, parental authority, limited government, or civic virtue. For their rules and values come not from parents but from government officials, who have ultimate sovereignty over their lives: courts, lawyers, social workers, forensic therapists, public-school bureaucrats, and police. These are the figures they must obey rather than their parents. Thus, children whose authority figures are government officials cannot distinguish the private from the public and come to see the public sphere as a realm not of civic duty and community leadership but of abstract ideology, government funding, professional employment, career advancement, and state power, in whose growth they acquire a vested interest."
In other words, they become institutionalized and spend the majority of their lives on some sort of State Aid.
In the city of Springfield Mass. over 70% of low-income homes are fatherless. 100% of those families are in the 'system' or were raised (themselves) under the care of Social Services.
In the city of Springfield Mass. over 70% of low-income homes are fatherless. 100% of those families are in the 'system' or were raised (themselves) under the care of Social Services.
Between our warped sense of family values and a system that makes reporting effortless and consequence free the stage is set for CPS to wield power at will. If you add the fact that we are several generations removed since feminism and easy drive thru divorce made fatherlessness common place, we now have children (who have known no father) having fatherless children themselves. We have long since proven the emotional and sociological ramifications of this type of culture mentality on children.
But this is exactly what was planned. Create more 'at risk' children from parents who themselves were once deemed 'at risk' children and you have a steady supply of fresh meat for the institutional meat grinder known as Child Protective Services..
" Government creates the problem, then delights in being the one who solves the problem.."
Congressman Ron Paul.
....And That Is The Diatribe....
But this is exactly what was planned. Create more 'at risk' children from parents who themselves were once deemed 'at risk' children and you have a steady supply of fresh meat for the institutional meat grinder known as Child Protective Services..
" Government creates the problem, then delights in being the one who solves the problem.."
Congressman Ron Paul.
....And That Is The Diatribe....
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Annual reports speak for themselves. 3 million increase of child abuse reports since Obama = 7 million. In my state of Missouri, 92,000+ child abuse reports in 2012, ONLY 6,600+ SUBSTANTIATED! 9%+ are sexual abuse!!! 50%+ are children under age 7. 91.7% of our abused kids are Caucasian. http://www.dss.mo.gov
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