Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / May 2008

The Family Under Attack - Does the State Own YOUR Children?

http://www.nolanchart.com/article3580.html

Why the ongoing imprisonment of FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints) children in Texas should serve as a warning
to every family in America.by Carter Braxton
(Libertarian)
Saturday, April 26, 2008

"The children are in a position to no longer on a daily basis be
influenced by adults who have encouraged a code of silence," said
Darrell Azar, a spokesman for Child Protective Services. "Now that they
are away from that influence they may become more comfortable, and we
will have a better chance of learning the truth."

The first thing I'm going to say is that removal of children from the
home is sometimes justified. Children are individuals too and as such
have rights, including the right to be free from the unjustified use of
force. No parent has the right to physically or sexually abuse their child.

The state is the arbiter of rights. It is the duty of the state to
identify where rights have been violated and to take action to correct
those wrongs. If evidence exists that a parent has exceeded (or
perverted) their authority to teach and correct, it can properly be
presented in the form of an indictment detailing the criminal acts
alleged to have been committed.

But the state is not a parent. Absent specific evidence of a crime, of
specific harm being done to a specific child by a specific adult (at a
specific time and place, etc.) the state has no authority to intercede
in the parent – child relationship.

At least it didn’t until now.

Formerly, the law considered parents to have sole legal right and
responsibility for the upbringing of their children. They, and they
alone, had the right to teach, correct and protect. That it was the
right of the parent to make decisions related to the religious or
philosophical upbringing of their child rested at the very heart of our
system of liberties.

To replace the wisdom of the parents with the authority of the state is
to upend that system. And the movement to do just that is gaining momentum.

The recent raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints ( FLDS ) Yearning For Zion ( YFZ ) Ranch in Texas (and
subsequent detainment of 416 children) is a particularly egregious
example of this trend. Military tactics (machine guns and armored
personnel carriers) were used to "extricate" 416 children. No evidence.
No warrant. No charges. Just guns (and social workers, of course).

And it is now being argued in court, and apparently successfully (to
judge by the continued detainment of the 416 children), that the beliefs
of the parents, in and of themselves, were harmful enough to the
children that they needed to be removed.

Let me repeat: none of the mothers or fathers were charged with any
specific criminal acts. Lifestyle was their crime. Religion their offense.

The point is not whether you share their beliefs, but whether you feel
they had the right to hold them, and to pass them on to their children.

The relationship between parent and child is unique. It is perhaps the
only relationship before the law where inequality of rights is actually
justified. Children have rights, but those rights cannot be
over-expanded without doing detriment to the individual child, the
family unit, and society as a whole.

Under the pretense of "youth rights", or "protecting the children", the
state can engage in egregious acts of "reeducation" and social
engineering. By molding the minds of the young, the state can mold the
entire society. That is why parents must jealously guard their right to
parent. Acquiescence to the state’s demands to number, immunize,
psychotropically medicate, or educate your child a certain way may not
be in your child’s best interest. You, the parent, not the state, are
the one who should make these important decisions.

But education of children is especially the key to controlling any
society. Every successful totalitarian regime has understood this.
Independent families are a threat to the future of any totalitarian
system because they can teach children that the state is not the
benevolent master it pretends to be. That is exactly the kind of
education the state detests (and the reason you’ll never find mention of
it in any government school).

And perhaps, just perhaps, that’s the real reason behind some of the
government’s "child protection" actions. Perhaps the state feels the
need to "protect" children against teachings that conflict with the
interests of the state.

An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"

Child Protective Services Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of CPS.

every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

Perpetrators of Maltreatment

Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.

THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST

Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs…

THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia

http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/articles.php?filter=6

This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.

http://www.jbs.org/node/4632

Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-callahan16oct16,0,5019944.story?coll=l
a-opinion-rightrail

FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILURE:. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler

http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc

HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN

http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html

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

http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2000/5_May/mayds4.htm

A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster care:

30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed

Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support

80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.

The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991

Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s
foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing.

This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would
have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in
the first place.

Front-page story in USA Today.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-02-foster-study_N.htm?csp=34#Close

The full study is available here.

http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fosterlt_march07_aer.pdf

The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
walking wreckage...

CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....

CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...

BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...