As of April, there were 349 children from Randall and Potter counties in foster care.
According to national statistics provided by Arrow, 40 to 50 percent of those children will never complete high school. Sixty-six percent of them will be homeless, go to jail or die within one year of leaving the foster care system at 18.
American children terrorized by CPS while lawmakers cry about Border Children
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- Created: Saturday, 16 June 2018 23:55
- Written by Megan Fox - PJ Media
Americans are in an uproar about illegal immigrant parents and children separated at the border. The level of hysteria surrounding this topic has reached a fever pitch with senators like Chuck Schumer mugging distraught for the cameras at every opportunity. While the shrill voices shriek loudly about the rights of Mexicans and other assorted border jumpers, American parental rights are being stripped from them, unconstitutionally, every single day. (Chuck Schumer has yet to freak out about it on national television.) American parents have lost their due process and Fourth Amendment rights, and most of them don't even know it. Most anyone who has been visited by Child Protective Services can testify to the absolute terror that the state can inflict on a family for very little or no reason at all.
Archive: How the false claims of the child abuse industry have harmed america
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- Created: Sunday, 25 June 2017 19:15
- Written by John Knight - FatherMag.com
Those who profit from the Child Abuse Industry must convince both us and their victims that everything is abuse. News media, therapists, prosecutors, judges, lawyers and sex police. Thousands of jobs depend on maximizing claims of abuse.
The Heritage Foundation estimates that welfare costs US taxpayers $360 billion per year, and it is now clear that this underwrites a large portion of the high US divorce rate -- the highest in the world -- and one of the highest illegitimacy rates. The Coalition of Parents estimates that the child abuse industry costs US taxpayers $285 billion per year. This is a case in which the medicine did more damage than the disease -- more children were damaged by their resulting fatherlessness than were protected by these efforts. "Child support" may be only $14 billion per year, but the psychological effects on family dynamics contribute more to family breakup than just the dollar incentives would imply.
Thus about 41% of the $1.6 Trillion national budget is wasted on programs which do little other than to undermine family unity, with terrible consequences. As the following ROFF (Rate of Fatherlessness Factor) suggests, for each $12.5 billion increase in the last 3 decades in the annual expenditure for welfare, the rate of fatherlessness rose 1%, and for each 1% increase in the rate of fatherlessness SAT scores declined 3 points, and the prison population increased by 41,296 inmates.
It seems that the cure is worse than the disease.
A critical look at the foster care system: How safe is the service
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- Created: Sunday, 05 October 2014 22:04
- Written by Rick Thoma http://www.liftingtheveil.org/foster03.htm
A recent TIME Magazine article references a troubling report commissioned by the Reagan Administration during the late 1980s, which concluded:
Foster care is intended to protect children from neglect and abuse at the hands of parents and other family members, yet all too often it becomes an equally cruel form of neglect and abuse by the state.[1]
In the State of California, two San Diego County Grand juries would echo these concerns, finding that: "Professionals working in the field of child abuse voiced strong concerns that the children removed from abusive homes were being abused again by a system designed to protect them."[2]
Study: Troubled homes better than foster care
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- Created: Wednesday, 07 March 2007 09:10
- Written by Wendy Koch - USA Today
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. The findings intensify a vigorous debate in child welfare: whether children are better served with their families or away from them.
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, says the study by Joseph Doyle, an economics professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management who studies social policy.
FAMILY INFLUENCE: Children who stay in troubled families fare better than those put into foster care. Those who:
Were arrested at least once:
• Stayed with family: 14%
• Went to foster care: 44%
Became teen mothers:
• Stayed with family: 33%
• Went to foster care: 56%
Held a job at least 3 months:
• Stayed with family: 33%
• Went to foster care: 20%
Carers 'exploiting' baby bonus
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- Created: Saturday, 28 July 2007 00:05
- Written by Marnie O'Neill and Clair Weaver - The Sunday Telegraph
UNSCRUPULOUS foster carers are exploiting the baby bonus scheme by taking in babies for long enough to receive the $4000 payment before sending them back to permanent care, according to extraordinary new allegations.
A whistleblower has told The Sunday Telegraph some NSW carers have a "very high turnover'' of babies and are claiming the Government bonus several times a year, as well as other allowances.
The source, who previously worked for the NSW Department of Community Services (DoCS), claimed the money was not being spent on the babies as intended.
Foster kids are feral little f**ks
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- Created: Friday, 16 July 2010 15:12
- Written by Alecomm
Alecomm had a visitor to its property this afternoon, in a brand spanking (all-but) new Toyota Landcruiser. Bloody Beautiful it was too. Number Plates on the front of the vehicle bent completely over so you could not read them at all and 3 or 4 very young kids in the back. The number plates for this vehicle was AH29BQ.
Upon noticing that i seen the kids in the back, he said "oh, yeh, the kids" ... to which i replied "are they yours?" -- a common question to ask these days considering how many stolen children are floating around the country for anybody to make a good living off (i mean seriously, just take a look at the vehicle this guy was driving).
Bringing forth a consolidated front
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- Created: Monday, 23 January 2017 22:40
- Written by Lawrence Espinoza
In this fight to keep children from being kidnapped by CPS we often hear that we need a united front. We believe this to be the best line of strategy also. This does not mean united with everybody who pretends to be on our side, but it does mean we should be United with everyone that is aiming for the same goal that parents are.
Stopping the children from being ripped from their homes starts with making this a united front of a fight for parents rights to have families. This means all who are in this fight should be fighting for parents that are present and ready for their children to be home with them or to stay home with them.
This fight for parents rights to have families include the rights for the parents to have grandparents around for their children.
Former foster parent blasts CPS and foster care systems' abuses of power
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- Created: Monday, 23 January 2017 01:23
- Written by Nehemiah Flynt, author of Legal Discrimination
I became a foster parent with the intentions of putting a roof over the heads of orphaned children. I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
By the time I completed the training process, I understood that the majority of the children that would be entering my home were not orphans. I was brainwashed into believing the children had come from abusive and neglectful homes. I was told the state had rescued them from horrible living environments and that I was somewhat of a hero for taking them in.
They were all lies. It took several years for me to truly see what I had become a part of.
Child Protective Services was stealing children from loving biological families.
The reasons they took children into their custody varied. A few had actually been abused or neglected in their biological homes, but the majority had not been.
"Pychologist Toni Single caused two severely disabled children - who were removed from the home of their foster carer on the grounds that she might be a "compulsive care giver" - are on the way home."
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- Created: Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:30
- Written by Caroline Overington
The Australian last week reported the case of the woman, a registered nurse, who lost the right to care for the children after a psychologist suggested she was deriving a worrying amount of satisfaction from her role as their carer.
Psychologist Toni Single said the woman might be a "compulsive care giver", meaning she was compelled to care for disabled children so that others would admire her.
The woman had cared for two girls for six years, and for a boy for two years.
All three children are confined to bed. They cannot walk, talk nor feed themselves.
Not-for-profit corporation Life Without Barriers, which employs the woman, said yesterday the girls would be returned to the woman's home. The boy is likely to stay in hospital.
The Australian understands his health is deteriorating.
The woman, who cannot be named because it may identify the children, had intended to take the matter to court. She converted her home into a facility for the three children, widening the hallways for the wheelchairs and installing a spa for water therapy.
Life Without Barriers chief executive Ray Dunn said the decision was "a good result for everyone concerned".
"We place the welfare and care of the children first," hesaid.
Mr Dunn said Life Without Barriers received $2049 per child per week from the Department of Community Services, most of which would be passed on to the carer and her support team.
"Foster children left in care despire serious allegations of abuse"
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- Created: Sunday, 15 September 2013 23:30
- Written by Lisa Pryor - Sydney Morning Herald
A NSW father who fostered more than 300 children around Sydney confessed to raping a foster child in his care, documents obtained by the Herald show. The man and his wife fostered children for 30 years and had been awarded medals in the Order of Australia for their work. They had also been profiled in an article in The Australian Women's Weekly celebrating foster carers.
The confession in August last year came two years after the Department of Family and Community Services conducted an investigation into claims that the man was sexually inappropriate with foster children. Children were left in his care after the investigation even though the department found some of the behaviour did occur.
The man was remanded in jail in August last year on charges including nine counts of aggravated sexual assault of the teenager, who had a number of disabilities.
His confession came the day after the girl reported the abuse to friends at her school. The rapes he confessed to occurred over a two-month period last year.
"NSW foster carer charged with abuse"
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- Created: Sunday, 12 January 2014 23:30
- Written by Nine MSN News
Three children have been found with bruises across their bodies, prompting police to arrest their foster carer in NSW's Hunter region.
On January 10, police were told three children in foster care in the Lake Macquarie Area near Newcastle had a number of injuries.
The children, two boys aged six and seven and a five-year-old girl, had obvious bruising on various parts of their bodies, NSW police said in a statement on Monday.
Child Abuse Squad officers later arrested the children's 47-year-old foster carer.
According to police, officers also seized more than 20 grams of cannabis, 475 grams of a white powder substance, ammunition and a firearm from the woman's home.
The children have received medical attention and are in the care of NSW Family and Community Services.
The woman was charged with a string of offences, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm and drug possession.
She was granted conditional bail to appear in Belmont Local Court on January 20. (Source : http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2014/01/13/16/47/nsw-foster-carer-charged-with-abuse)
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