The LAST thing CPS does is help families

...indeed they spend literally 1000% more on everything BUT helping the family. Besides the $millions they get in Title IV money, they additionally go in and take 1/3 of the TANF, Medicaid and food stamp money and then refuse to help desperate families in need, crying about all the cuts. Literally out of the mouths of babes. Then they go in and harvest little kids so they can sell them to the highest bidder in adoptions ~ where CPS workers actually receive bonuses for the children they take. Where the Title IV funding literally mandates to stakeholders, "For every child you take, the more money you will make. If you return these children home, you will lose any present and future funding for any returned children ..."

DYS agencies are well aware that less than 10% of the children they take are truly abused and that there is little need to take most kids. They are well aware that, if families are given services, these children will thrive far better than in foster care. They do not have to observe or respect Constitutional rights nor will they even have to produce any credible evidence in court showing any abuse has occurred at all. They can claim "imminent danger" for a child with no proof in order to take children from their homes. This means that even though nothing has happened to a child in the past they THINK it MIGHT happen in the future ~ which is used a "fact" in family court. This has been in admitted in such courts as the 9th circuit where the court itself said that the "investigations" CA CPS conducts are not believable (Humphreys vs Los Angeles County). If you think this is JUST in CA, think again since most states model their CPS agencies after these dolts.

CPS is now taking children from low income families when it costs literally 1000% LESS to assist their families. This comes out of the frankly elitist, stoooooooopid attitudes among many Americans that taking a child from poverty and putting them in upper income homes is "better" or "in their best interest". In fact there are statistics showing that in foster care after children are removed, they then face another 5-7 X greater chance of being abused and in adoption homes it is not much better.

Just because someone has a split level home and a nice car does *not* mean that behind those closed doors everything is peachy keen. Adoptions pretend this is the main criteria and overlook so much abuse after being bedazzled by the swing set in the back yard. They know for a fact that taken kids are more likely to drop out of school, go to jail, become homeless, become mentally ill, go through teen pregnancy, than if they are left in the home with services, even when the parent is drug addicted. do not say these workers are "damned if they do, damned if they don't" since not one CPS worker in my state in over 30 years had gotten so much as a slap ion the wrist. They enjoy absolute immunity even after having been proven in court to have lied. They know kids should never be taken for anything but the worst abuse, but hey there is money to be made...

Most of these families are low wage working families needing help with ESPECIALLY medical, affordable housing, food, affordable transportation, and most of all DECENT wages. But n-o-o-o-o. Paying the CPS worker, the 6 figure family court judge, all the large non-profits and the "independent" GAL agencies who spend thousands to send their lawyers in court for the GAL NOT the kid, for adoption agencies eager to see the child to the highest bidder since they will retain a pretty penny of what they get from the government, the adopters, and their "child saving" donors.

In the end because everyone refuses to admit to their part and give these families and their children the assistance they need (you know "it takes a village for everyone BUT poor doncha know), a little boy died without treatment and his family had fled the injustices of family court. They were scrambling to make ends meet without any assistance, and then we want to pretend that the whole thing happened in a vacuum when in fact it did not.

If any of the judgmental people in this discussion underwent what this family has, I can tell you they would SHUT THE HELL UP. THEY are the ones causing this hysteria that is destroying low income families and supporting austerity cuts that would help kids instead of making their lives worsened but WE CAN'T HAVE THAT CAN WE? We would rather let a little boy DIE than help his family ...

Cat in Seattle ~ and yes this angers me as an activist who has seen terrible poverty as well as the the judgement and hatred of the the poor with dummasses who think social worker's so-called fake "concern" is SO caring, but never does an f-ing thing about the poverty that causes this s**t.


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