RE: CPS NOW IMPACTING ALL PARENTS!
I find it rather disturbing the claim that children in foster care are six times more likely to face abuse of some sort then in custody of their parents. What happened to this child is as tragic as the death of three infants in my surrounding area in the last six months at the hands of their parents. Looking at the article about the scalding case there were more articles attributing death/injury at the hands of parents in that same locality then at the hands of foster parents. One article highlight that 80 percent of deaths of children in Arizona come at that the hands of neglect by parents. I often see articles posted coming from out of Arizona concerning foster care, I tend to believe that they have problems. Considering it's a warm state where a lot of transients congregate to, a high rate of illegal immigration and dealing with the opiate crisis has dealt Arizona more than it can handle but I don't think necessarily that what's going on there is highly reflective of the system overall across the US. From what I often see here in my state is that children are more likely to die at the hands of their parents then at the hands of the foster care system.
Rimsza cautions that the slight improvement in that category doesn’t mean anything significant yet. There will need to be some fundamental changes in Arizona before there’s significant improvement in those areas, she said, especially when it comes to child neglect, which was noted as a direct cause or contributing factor in 80 percent of the maltreatment deaths.
Neglect will continue “until we address the poverty and substance use in our state,” she said. Child deaths related to maltreatment increased 16 percent between 2011 and 2015, she said.
Parents lacking access to child care and other resources contributes to those high rates, she said.
Of the deaths that were related to substance use, marijuana was identified as a factor in 30 percent of the deaths, alcohol in 25 percent and opiates in 10 percent, the report shows. Methamphetamine was found in 12 percent.
“Many of these deaths were due to neglect problems and the substance use was a contributing factor,” she said. “Many times people were using multiple drugs.”
How about when parents and relatives lie to authorities and it leads to death:
https://tucson.com/news/who-failed-baby-adam/article_bebb8b04-e1d5-53ae-acb6-e7af09ed4e6a.html
Thank you for your in-depth reply. I realise that there is abuse by parents and that it can also be a real threat. But there is enough evidence to support that CPS is taking children without there be a proper investigation. These kids are then abused in the system. I also see a lot of kids dying in foster care. Go look at this website https://medicalkidnap.com Maybe you can make a post with comparison figures between abuse by parents and abuse by foster parents. I wanted to do a post like that a while ago but struggle to get the figures. Blessings!
Here you go, write your heart out, it won't be the statistics you were hoping for but they weren't that hard to find:
The majority (77.6%) of perpetrators were a parent of a victim, 6.2 % of perpetrators were a relative other than a parent, and 4.1% had a multiple relationship to either multiple victims in the same report or multiple victims across reports . Nearly 4.0% (3.8%) of perpetrators had a "other" relationship to their victims. According to states' commentary the NCANDS category of "other" perpetrators relationships include foster siblings, nonrelative, household staff, clergy, etc., Please refer to appendix D for more information. (see table 5-5 and related notes)
According to other data in the report 2.36 per 1,00,000 kids die from abuse/neglect on a national average, that's 1,750 kids in 2016, of those 1,750 kids 85 died while in the system.
That's about as much time as I am going to spend on it, now if the stats came out that more kids really did die in foster care then by abuse of their own parents this site would rave and up vote me like mad...but since it doesn't it's a waste of my time. One is to many kids dying, there's stats in their that will tell you how many kids also died after being returned to their parents, it's all heartbreaking but with well over four hundred thousand kids in foster care the system is not always going to be perfect, there are five states who have been or are being investigated because there are to many deaths in the system in those states, but they would also include deaths where CPS hadn't removed children and were monitoring parents or gave children back and those parents were being monitored or let out of the system...there's so many variables but this site isn't worth it to me to search it all out and lay it out, they probably wouldn't like the results anyway.
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/resource/child-maltreatment-2016
Thank you for the reply. I will look into it.