Stop Incentivising the Kidnapping of Children

The "land of freedom" is a farce in many cases. Non-abusive parents have their children stolen from them through legalized state-sponsored Child "Protective" Services. Parents and relatives who go looking for answers to explain the terror they are going through will find Facebook groups and websites of great help to fight the corrupt system. They won't find the answers or help from the government, because they are doing all the damage.

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Taking children from safe homes is made possible by federal funding. That's right. Everyone is paying for this travesty. Money is pushing a corrupt agenda by incentivising it. The Clinton-era Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) provided billions of dollars in funding to place children into foster care, and have them adopted out to strangers, often instead of relatives.

Children have been taken from their homes, and their family bonds forever broken. The family unit is under attack, and it's all made possible by incentivising this behavior through federal funding.

The ASFA isn't the destructive legislation that started all this mess. It began with the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 (CAPTA), or Mondale Act. This established Child "Protective" Services across 50 states. Every 4 to 6 years it has to be reapproved, and it does with new amendments added.

CAPTA is "the one-stop shop for bad ideas", says Richard Wexler, the executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. In a recent article on this miserable Act, he says:

Since it has to be reauthorized every few years, there are endless opportunities to do further harm by adding new provisions.

Child abuse has long existed, but the perception of it's frequency was amplified by editors from the Journal of the Americana Medical Association (JAMA) after an article titled "The Battered-Child Syndrome" was published in 1962 and gained popularity. They made claims that "[the battered child syndrome] will be found to be a more frequent cause of death than such well recognized and thoroughly studied diseases as leukemia, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy," as noted by Barbara J. Nelson in her book Making an Issue of Child Abuse.

This comparison has become cemented as fact (even though it isn't), as child abuse became more popular int he media and became a more talked about subject across the nation. The number of cases was perceived to be greater than it was, and cries for legislative action grew. Child abuses was pounded in the press and created a public push to pass laws in the 70s to deal with the issue.

To this day, the perception that child abuse is rampant and outnumbers many other diseases persists. As the Prevent Child Abuse America admitted in 2003:

It is almost certainly true that the strategies employed so successfully by the child abuse and neglect prevention field to generate media coverage and public awareness in the mid-1970s have resulted in a vicious cycle in which new communications on the issue tends to conform to, and reinforce, the existing frame of reference.

While the establishment of a certain degree of public horror relative to the issue of child abuse and neglect was probably necessary in the early years to create public awareness of the issue, the resulting conceptual model adopted by the public has almost certainly become one of the largest barriers to advancing the issue further in terms of individual behavior change, societal solutions and policy priorities.

From the media spread horror came the fury of demanding laws to fight the "epidemic" of child abuse, and hence the 1974 CAPTA. Social workers now had "authority" over families. They could operate under the mentality of taking children from homes and families first, and asking questions later.

One particularly damaging part of CAPTA was:

...to enact mandatory reporting laws requiring certain professionals to report child abuse, despite the fact that there was then — and is now — no evidence that they actually reduce child abuse, and many of those who once championed such laws now have second thoughts.

Professionals who are mandated to report think they are doing good, to be on the "safe side", and that CPS will properly investigate, treating the parents with respect and using evidence to clear innocent parents of any wrongdoing. But this isn't the reality. One call from the professionals to report possible issues often leads to disastrous consequences for innocent parents and their children who are traumatized by this corrupted system of "care".

Social workers in court even made a case last year that they had a "right to lie" to take children from parents. This was rejected by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, yet the court ruling has little effect on the continued corrupt practices of social workers.

When children do get taken, CAPTA required states to appoint someone to act on the child's behalf in each case. But as Wexler points out, the state's perspective is assumed instead of really thinking about what's in the best interest of the child:

CAPTA does not require this person to actually speak up for what the child wants, only for what the guardian or CASA thinks is best.

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a comprehensive study, commissioned by the National CASA Association itself, found that CASA [a court-appointed special advocate] doesn’t work — indeed, it prolongs foster care.

Children in foster care have given testimony of how the court appointed guardians don't report the accounts of abuse, rape or molestation that the children bring to them in foster care. Though some do care, many often seem more interested in blaming parents and trying to invest falsities to justify keeping children away form their parents.

There is also an unjust one-sided secrecy applied through confidentiality laws. Misdeeds are blanketed in secrecy, be they lies, fraud, or mistakes by social workers, attorneys, judges, GALS, doctors, or foster parents. But they do get to speak of the parents issues in court, in a one-sided manner as well, only depicting what a parent allegedly did wrong, as if there are only bad things to find. Criminal have more rights, as their court cases are open to the public and officials are held to a higher degree of accountability.

One provision form CAPTA that seems to be ignored is mentioned by Wexler:

According to Section 107(a)1 of CAPTA, federal grants are to be made to states to assist in improving “the assessment and investigation of suspected child abuse and neglect cases, including cases of suspected child sexual abuse and exploitation, in a manner that limits additional trauma to the child and the child’s family"

When children are taken from their families for mere claims of abuse from anonymous sources, or other reasons like a parent not allowing vaccinations, or medical injuries that are reported, this is a traumatic event that a child is subjected to. Evidence of some kind should be required to prevent this trauma from being imposed on a child, as many cases of child abuse are dismissed. According to the Child Maltreatment report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service in 2016, 83% of allegations against parents are unsubstantiated.

Section 206(5) of CAPTA also makes requirements for states receiving money to provide reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the state of families affected by CPS measures:

They "shall demonstrate a high level of satisfaction among families who have used the services of the community-based and prevention-focused programs and activities designed to strengthen and support families to prevent child abuse and neglect;"

But families who get targeted, attacked, and have their families ripped apart and destroyed aren't being given this opportunity to report their level of satisfaction to government officials. The intention of CPS may have been as a community-based prevention program to strengthen and support families, but this goal has fallen away. Now it's more about making money by taking children from families in order to justify the utility of one's job, and keep the money flowing into foster care and adoption contracts.

What we have is a form of human trafficking, where the state incentivizes the abduction of children from innocent parents and the destruction of families. Stopping the funding incentive would help stop the amount of wrong doing being done to innocent families. Maybe that's what's really needed to resolve this issue.

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References:

• Federal Funding Provides Incentives for States to Take Children Away from Families Even When No Abuse is Present
• National Coalition For Child Protection Reform
• CAPTA Law Codifies Everything Wrong With How We ‘Fight’ Child Abuse
• THE BATTERED-CHILD SYNDROME

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