Government Kidnapping and Abusing Children by Destroying the Mother-Child Bond

The initial years of our lives is when we form our first connection with others. None is arguably more important than the bond between a mother and child. This builds trust and security for the forthcoming development of our lives. It enriches the lives of both parent and child.

Some parents may not do as well as others, but the majority of children benefit from being raised by the mother who birthed them into the world. Yet, there is a system in place which kidnaps children from caring and fit parents just as much or even more than taking children from parents who are horrible. Most of the children that enter the foster care system do so within the critical first year of bonding with their mother and creates a trauma that they often don't recover from.

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Trust is often fractured at a young age as a result of that trauma. These newborns also often are never returned home despite there never being any real danger, and they get adopted out to strangers or put into foster care by the state. The natural emotional and psychological bonding through the need for their biological parents is never reestablished, and they are left with a gaping hole. The love and acceptance from their mother and father is gone, replaced by others who often do their best, but sometimes are inadequate substitutes despite all their efforts to bond with another's child to make them feel loved, wanted and cherished.

This breaking of the bond and trauma is induced by Child "Protective" Services (Child Procurement Syndicate) that is supposed to work for the best interest of the child. They have undue authority to be the sole determinants of whether a home is good or bad for a child. One excuse that the authorities in CPS or in the law system use is that they prefer to be on the "safe side" by removing (kidnapping) children from their parents in order to make sure they are not harmed. But this is done without any evidence of actual harm having taken place, and is what is actually harmful an abusive to a child.

In addition to that initial trauma and abuse of being separated from their loving parent, severing the natural and innate bond being developed, children are actually more likely to be abused in foster care than in their own homes as they are being put into the "care" of someone else. The first act of harm and abuse through the trauma of kidnapping a child and breaking the sacred bond is not even something that's admitted by this tyrannical practice.

Almost one in five children who enter the foster care system is less than 1-year-old when they are kidnapped from their parents, according to the latest data from 2016 provided by the 2017 Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System report.

The data contains children aged less that 1 year up to 17 years old. 49,234 or 18% of children taken were under a year old and put into the foster care system, with only 8% or 11,153 exiting the foster care system. All other age groups represented a smaller amount of the total amount of children taken into foster care, and most of them exited foster care that year . For example 4-year-old children represented 5% of children, and 4% returned, leaving 1% of the total of children in foster care being aged 4 when they were taken. Only 10% of all children taken were in the system less than a month. Most stay for 6 months to 2 years.

This shows that of all age groups, babies are the most likely be kidnapped from their parents and never returned. They are then farmed out for adoption, with 92% of adopters receiving a taxpayer-funded financial incentive to adopt. Since the report was created in 2012, there have been more children taken, and more parental rights terminated, with more children waiting to be adopted. Less than 16% of the children kidnapped by CPS are for physical or sexual abuse.

This is a kids for cash system. I refer to CPS as the Child Procurement Syndicate because it's largely about procuring children with financial incentives backing the whole mechanism, from the payment of employees to kidnap children, the adoption agencies will get paid, and the adopters who get an adoption subsidy.

In a 2017 study of infants of cocaine-using mothers, they behavior of the babies taken from their mothers was compared to babies left in their mother's care. Those taken and placed into foster care were "less likely to smile, reach, roll over or sit up". And babies taken as newborns were "at greatest risk for lowered motor development." This shows the psychological and traumatic damage being done to babies at a young age, but the CPS and government authorities don't seem to factor this in at all.

If a mother has issues, it's not necessarily child abuse, and even if it's somewhat the case, it's a lot less compared to the abuse of trauma from being separated from their natural mothers. The authoritarian government and the authority they grant to CPS is doing more abusing than the amount of actual abusive parents out there. Great psychological and emotional harm is being inflicted upon children being kidnapped by the state who break the bonding and attachment that established trust and positive child development.

A baby is inside a mother's womb for 9 months, and hears her voice for 5 months. This is the initial stage or a bond and attachment begins. Birth psychologist Ray Castellino says in the documentary "What Babies Want": "Baby knows mom from inside. Meeting mom from outside is a different experience. The way they come into contact – that sets the pattern."

A specialist in affective neuroscience with attachment, early development, and trauma, Dr. Marti Glenn says:

From the very beginning, we’re building the capacity to trust, and if the baby isn't held and treated gently, if the baby is taken away and mom and baby are separated, the very first impression that the baby has is "Where's my mom?"

Doctors used to be so ignorant of babies, thinking they could not have "real experiences" at such a young age, and didn't even use anesthesia in operations. How wrong they were, and that resulting in traumatizing a developing human at such an early age.

Oxytocin increase the care, bond and trust in many animals, including humans. Breastfeeding and holding skin-to-skin released this hormone. Some, like Dr. Jay Gordon, think that even the modern hospitalization harms babies as it separates newborns form their mothers.

With state-sponsored kidnapping, children in foster care have higher rates of PTSD, teen pregnancies, being a victim of sex trafficking, eating disorders, being homeless, incarcerated and ending up on death row. Could this all stem from the early development trauma of being separated from the innate connection and bond of birth parents?

Even a troubled home seems to be a better pace for a child that being forced into foster care. But even in worse cases, a child should go with relatives, not strangers, which rarely happens in the Child Procurement racket. Some favor the foster care system, like a writer for the City Journal, who disapproves of the Family First law that aims to keep children with their relatives, advocating for children to be put into the care of strangers instead. These people want foster families to have the same legal grounds at blood relatives to adopt children under 3 years old.

It's troubling that the system of "order" and "justice" that we live in us run by many people who are so confused as to what is right or better for a child. We have a kids-for-cash system that kidnaps children to place them with strangers, doing damage to their psychological, emotional and physical development when parents did nothing wrong, or even when they have issues but aren't a serious threat to the child.

Foster care and adoption can be beneficial in some cases. There are great people in the world doing things to help children. But a lot of children get taken needlessly, and are often put into worse situations. I think there needs to be more restriction on the current willy-nilly kidnapping of children by the state.

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Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.

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References:

• Babies for Cash – How the State Abuses Infants by Destroying the Mother-Child Bond in CPS Abductions
• 2017 Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System report
• To Have And To Hold: University of Florida Shows Cocaine-Exposed Infants Fare Better With Their Biological Mothers
• Care Before Kinship

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