Parents being separated from their children is not something new. It's happening all over the US. The media is acting as if it's only the illegal immigrants who are trying to sneak into someone else's home that are being separated. There is a long history of children being separated from their parents, all thanks to government sanctioned violence.
Earlier this year the big story was Baby Alfie Evens from the UK. There is an outcry at how the system is treating children. Now it's about migrant children, but specifically they are illegal immigrant children, not seeking legal entry with their parents. Plenty of families live int he US legally, yet some are unfortunate enough to go up against the state's power and lose custody of their children.
The media and politicians -- and the general public as a result -- are ignoring the crimes going on within the country towards it's own citizens. Authoritarian agencies like CPS are separating families. Some do so for alleged medical reasons, but it's just a con game of legalized violence and medical kidnapping.
Away from the Mexican border in Florida, Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform is exposing how the media is responsible for making a bad situation worse. Apparently, caseworkers are scared of "media consequences" if they leave a child in a home where something goes wrong. That's their justification for illegally snatching children from parents, tearing families apart, having children sleep in different beds all the time.
What they are doing is not legal, it only carries the veil of "legality" because they have the power to do immoral things and get away with it.
A report from the Hillsborough County System of Care has described the immoral conduct of child welfare workers.
Professionals in the system of care are often unnecessarily risk adverse due to the fear of child fatalities and media consequences...[E]xtreme caution and risk aversion responses do not guarantee that tragic results will be avoided, and can cause unnecessary trauma to children.
The report also states that this pressure to remove children from homes is done "without sufficient exploration, consideration, or conversation around reasonable efforts to prevent removal". The report even says there is a lack of effort to even place children into the extended family, creating a bias to farm children out to strangers.
This means that child welfare workers are choosing to put children at risk in an effort to minimize the risk to themselves and their jobs. Imagine that, a job to protect children, yet they harm children because the want to protect themselves and their jobs more.
What a messed up motivation to decide how to act. Takes children from loving parent simply because they are struggling, low income, and that "might" harm the child in some imagined way, but there is no harm yet, so take them anyways, "just in case". This is not in the best interest of the child as they claims to be doing. They are destroying families and lives, even having a hand in the death of children.
One such case was covered by the local news station WFLA in 2017, where a newborn died in foster care. The newborn was taken from the mother because she was deemed poor. Two months later he was dead and being buried by the mother that would have taken much better care of him, certainly not let him die. Here is the asinine justifications of CPS-like organizations to steal babies from parents for bullshit reasons.
It's even shown that nearly 50% of of all babies born to teen mothers in foster care get taken from their mothers simply because they are in foster care. CPS takes about 10% of newborns from teen mothers regardless of being in foster care. There is an epidemic in the USA, where "authorities" are overstepping it's bounds and kidnapping children which end up dead, or in the hands of pedophiles.
The report states how bad things are in this county:
- In Hillsborough County, children are torn from their families and trapped in foster care at a rate vastly higher than the state average — which in turn is higher than the national average. (And though the report doesn’t mention it, the national average is itself far above the rate in states that are, relatively speaking, models for keeping children safe.)
- The rate-of-removal in Hillsborough County also is far higher than the rates in other large Florida counties with similar levels of child poverty.
- The standard measure of child safety — reabuse of children "known-to-the-system" — has gotten worse. In other words, as usual, a foster care panic has made all vulnerable children less safe.
- In addition to children spending their days in cars, there are children forced to move to a different placement each night. The placement crisis has created "a culture where night-to-night placements are now seen as acceptable alternatives even for young children and, in some cases, infants."
The report continues to explain the conditions:
"They move from place to place each night and are often uncertain where they will spend the night until late afternoon or early evening. They may be transported for hours to reach overnight placements on the other side of the county or in a different county. Often foster parents want them dropped off at 9 PM or later and picked up at 6:00 am or 7:00 am the next morning to minimize their interaction with other children in the home. These youth often fail to get enough rest. They don’t have access to nutritious or home-cooked food, or to basic supplies for hygiene and showers. They are often unable to launder their clothes and many times their belongings are lost as they move from place to place."
Children are being subjected to harm and horrors they would not have endured had they been left in the hands of their loving parents. Foster and group homes are notorious for abuse: physical, sexual and psychological. It's a much more traumatic environment than being with a poor parent.
If something bad does happen at one time in one home, like a tragic death, it gets pumped up in the news, and then child "protective" services tend to ramp up their theft of children to prevent more tragedies. But innocent families who have done nothing wrong, and wouldn't have done anything to harm their child, lose custody and have to battle a corrupt legal system to get them back.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
References: Tampa Child Welfare Puts Too Many Kids in Foster Care Due to Media Fear, State Report Says | Florida Illegally Separating Children of U.S. Citizens from their Parents – Where’s the Outcry? | National Coalition For Child Protection Reform | Hillsborough County System of Care Peer Review Team Report | Pinellas parents bury newborn who died in Pasco foster care | CPS Kidnaps Half of All Babies Born to Teen Mothers in Foster Care
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