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The fact that Child Protective Services destroys families by removing children on no more than rumors and whims is bad enough, but what concerns me is what becomes of the children after the "advocates" get their hands on them. The abuse they suffer in foster care is often (and usually, it seems) far worse than what they experienced at home- if any abuse occurred at all. CPS couldn't have accomplished it at all without help from non-governmental organizations (NGO's) such as the Children's Defense Fund (CDF). This is the reason that these advocacy groups such as the CDF are so dangerous... as long as they can hold their dinners for wealthy patrons and parade two or three "success stories" in front of TV cameras, it shows that the system works- while children who aren't at the gala dinners pay, often with their lives.
A closer look at the CDF show that they are less advocated for children and more centered in destroying families and replacing them with governmental agencies. First, the CDF validates CPS by creating a perception of widespread child abuse. It's axiomatic that if there's no child abuse, there's little or no need for CPS- the two organizations work off each other. Like all governmental institutions, CPS competes for a portion of the financial pie... the more prevalent the child abuse (or perception thereof) the bigger the slice of the pie. That's where CDF comes in... the CDF is responsible for the "no child left behind" programs.
The brainchild of Marion Wright Edelman, a holdover from the anti-war protests of the 1960's, the CDF has become one of the most well funded and powerful lobbying groups in Washington DC, boasting powerful people such as Hillary Clinton, prior to becoming First Lady, was the Chair. The CDF was instrumental in legislation killing school choice. According to Ms. Edelman it would take money away from "proven programs." (Proven to do what, one may logically ask). Ms. Edelman wants the State to become the parent of America's children. Conversely, the family would be "transformed" into unwitting accomplices in the Humanist's nefarious social engineering experiment. She wants to replace "private charity" with what she calls "public justice." Note the use of the word justice- it has a double meaning here. Every decent American (an overwhelming majority) believe in the Constitutional concept of justice. However, what Ms. Edelman is referring to is distributive justice- which asks the question: how should we distribute scarce resources? What the CDF is really concerned with is how to get you to fund more of their Humanist agenda. In other words how can families be replaced by government.
One glaring inconsistency in the CDF ideology is that the government doesn't actually raise children... it is "farmed" out to foster families who are rarely investigated (except in the most cursory manner) before receiving children from the state. Child abuse in foster care is far more rampant than in nuclear families. The CPS is responsible for more deaths per capita of children than nuclear families by more than 2 to 1. Moreover sexual abuse has skyrocketed. In the 1990's and up until her death in 2010, State Senator of Georgia Nancy Schaefer was investigating CPS.
After releasing her findings, CNN began an investigation into sex trafficking in Atlanta (where Sen. Schaefer was formerly Mayor) but when Ms. Schaefer and her husband died in a mysterious murder/suicide, the investigation abruptly stopped. The Schaefers were devout Christians who friends told reporters would never even contemplate suicide... to many, their deaths are attributed directly into her ongoing investigation into CPS. It is inarguable that child abuse is a terrible thing, however when the government agency charged with keeping children safe become the abusers and "advocacy groups" such as the CDF remain silent, even supportive, it makes one wonder.
