It used to be only whispers. Then people would talk softly on the right occasions and in the right circumstances. But lately, it has become a dull roar, and many are even screaming that something MUST be done. But, sadly...so far at least... nothing meaningful ever is....
New-ish studies are showing that children who are raised in homes where the parents have been accused of "abuse" or "neglect' DO FAR BETTER if they stay with those families, than if they are removed and put into the 450,000-strong foster care category. Of course, we need children to be removed from imminent danger when it is apparent to all, but the over-baked "mandatory reporting crap," jealous or pissed off neighbors, just plain busybody liars in every community of the nation, etc...these are the real foster care support system.
Here is a great little article that NAILS IT:
Here is an excerpt from the above:
"In 2007 Joseph Doyle, an economics professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, published a study which tracked at least 15,000 kids from 1990 to 2002. It was the largest study of its kind at that time. USA Today ran a story on the report – Study: Troubled homes better than foster care. Here are some examples:
Children whose families are investigated for abuse or neglect are likely to do better in life if they stay with their families than if they go into foster care, according to a pioneering study. Kids who stayed with their families were less likely to become juvenile delinquents or teen mothers and more likely to hold jobs as young adults. Doyle’s study…. provides 'the first viable, empirical evidence' of the benefits of keeping kids with their families, says Gary Stangler, executive director of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, a foundation for foster teens. Stangler says it looked at kids over a longer period of time than had other studies. 'It confirms what experience and observation tell us: Kids who can remain in their homes do better than in foster care,' says Stangler."
So, it's not just coffee shop chatter, and grocery aisle gossip anymore. We are now gaining more and more PROOF that CPS is a bad idea that needs to just plain go away. Sadly, this article shows clearly that, despite all the best efforts of concerned Americans, we are making almost no progress in reducing the scope and reach of the CPS leviathan:
https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/foster-care
Here is the key excerpt from that article:
" From 2000 to 2016, the proportion of stays shorter than six months decreased by more than one-quarter..."
So, not only are the numbers of kids really not going down much, but the length of stay has increased. Anecdotal evidence is all suggesting that the kids are being held longer because the hubris and self-congratulatory attitudes of CPS staff has increased, along with their perceived immunity from any kind of legal repercussions for their over-reaches. In fact, the word on the street is that many state departments of CPS are actually more aggressive than ever now in seizing children because of the wide reportage on those very few instances where removal has sadly ended in tragedy. (The previous article is also worth a read because of the many other foster care statistics it provides.)
Then there is the growing elephant in the room, that is just passing the 5000-lb threshold and soon threatening to collapse the floor and take us all down with it...Children adopted by homosexual households (which, by any true traditionalist/conservative standard IS CHILD ABUSE ITSELF--i.e. prima facie and destructive!) The following study was actually published by CBS News (shockingly, given their well-known and long-term extreme liberal bias) and the author clearly shows that one of the worse places any child can be raised is in a family with homosexual parents:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kids-of-gay-parents-fare-worse-study-finds-but-draws-fire-from-experts/
There are tons of good stats given in the above link, and I will let you all peruse them for yourself. Predictably, certain people were outraged that facts would be published like this, when they do such harm to a certain agenda, but "facts are stubborn things." What is more dangerous is allowing this now-known form of child abuse to continue unhindered as a result of that agenda.
I will end with a local anecdote that touches on this very sore subject. My little town of Amity, Maine (pop. 220) is only know for two things, really...the home town of the author of "The Twentieth Maine" by John Pullen, and a triple homicide which reduced our population by 1.5% a few years ago. Tragically, a young man killed a 30-year old father and his 10-year old son and older family friend in a now-abandoned trailer just a couple miles down the road from here. The story was BIG news statewide for a couple years and dozens of articles appeared in our various state-wide daily papers.
The case was unusual because the young murderer was haunted by the idea that the people he killed were "drug dealers" and that he was doing a community service by killing them. He was later found (of course) to be insane and deeply and psychologically damaged. BUT, the one thing that was never mentioned in the articles (but confirmed by word of mouth and backed up by other documents) was that the teenager was being raised (and had run away) from a messed up pair of lesbians down on the Maine coast.
We do NOT help anybody by encouraging that agenda. We must work to help people caught in that destructive lifestyle to overcome it. AND, much like the current practice of messed up adults encouraging their young children to question their gender and even to get destructive mutilation surgery, we can not allow adult psychoses such as these to ruin the lives of innocent children.
But, by the numbers, the problem of children raised in homosexual families represents, still, at present, a tiny minority of the children not being raised by parents. The far, far greater problem remains the CPS system which is bureaucratic to the hilt, omniscient, and out-of-control. That system is beyond repair, and the only thing that can be done is to eradicate it and return to the days when churches and neighbors and extended families were the best options for those rare instances when actual interventions into nuclear families are truly necessary.
Sure, that isn't perfect either, and the chances for mistakes and abuse by those other family surrogates still exist, but anything is better than the horrific system that totally encumbers the conscience and future of the nation as at present.