In the past, families were held on high esteem because that is the first society a child knows- Family. Obvious no one chooses his family, you just find yourself there. Over the years societies have made sure that families are protected and that they are under good condition so that they can help in raising good children that will influence the world positively.
Togetherness has been encouraged because it is one of the key to happiness which would then rub off on the children. Imagine a sad home, what do you think the children will grow up as?
A family due to it's vital role to the society, has been trusted to be the pillar in a child's well being; with emotional, social, mental and psychological up bringing and development.
This is started by the man as the husband and the woman as the wife while some might choose to go for an adoption. They conclude that they want to bring children into the world and are ready to protect and rear these children in a right way for the benefit of a better world. Thus, their journey starts and gradually they have members and like that multiply as they can take.
They take the responsibility as parents to nurture and help bring up children; educating them and teaching them starting from when they made their first move from crawling to walking and then running. Parent(s)become attentive to the child in order to know them more and to help them in every stage of growth and development.
The family is the community in which children learn morality, faith, and ordered freedom, all of which are necessary for a free and flourishing culture. The family is, in other words, the primary educator of the community: the parents are and have the responsibility to be the primary teachers of their children.
No parent(s) want their child(ren) to be taken from them. They groom and go extra miles to love and protect their children. Children are gifts, no parent(s)wants them hurt or far away from them.
However, when children are born, the community, church,school and individuals help in the training, guidance and counselling to make sure that this children starts well socially, morally, spiritually, psychologically,emotionally, mentally and otherwise. Therefore, this training does not only end in the home but it starts from there.
charity begins at home.
In a nutshell happy families should not be divided, separated, treated badly and made to lose their children for any reason.
Wolves in sheeps clothing.
I am going to go straight to the point and make it clear and sound.The CPS as the case may be has become a very destructive element that is rather ruining families, jeopardizing children's future and disconnecting the bond that is meant to be among families.
it shouldn't hurt to be a child
I sit behind my screen to read stories under the family protection tag and it is rather too appalling that the society has not seen what harm it is doing to its families under the camouflage of the Child protection service.
Child Protective Services (CPS) is the name of a governmental agency in many states of the United States responsible for providing child protection, which includes responding to reports of child abuse or neglect.
The CPS which was first set with the intention to help children who were abused and neglected has from stories people share become a tool that rather tear happy families apart.
Partly funded by the federal government, Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies were first established in response to the 1974 CAPTA
which mandated that all states establish procedures to investigate suspected incidents of child maltreatment read more
Are they actually doing what they are meant to do?
Judging from the stories we read here, it is only clear that these people have abused the intention behind the creation of the CPS. If children could be taken from their parent(s) for no just reason, with no trace of maltreatment and neglect, causing the children to be away from this families how then is the family going to be together and happy. Knowing that the first tool to the well being of the society is the family.
I think CPS instead of sorting out children that really need their genuine service they turn to families that are meant to be together, separating them, hurting the parents by being mean and cutting every right to have access to their children. This alone is enough to break every bond between families or parent (s) and children.
Brenda Scott, in her 1994 book Out of Control: Who's Watching Our Child Protection Agencies, criticizes CPS, stating:
Child Protective Services is out of control. The system, as it operates today, should be scrapped. If children are to be protected in their homes and in the system, radical new guidelines must be adopted. At the core of the problem is the antifamily mindset of CPS. Removal is the first resort, not the last. With insufficient checks and balances, the system that was designed to protect children has become the greatest perpetrator of harm.
Conclusion
I am not American and have not experience or seen the rate of abuse of CPS but from people's stories here I can relate because it concerns families that are supposed to be happy, raising great children for the world. @misslasvegas is a beautiful lady I wanted to meet at the last stemfest because I found her experience with the CPS rather too touchy. So I had this need to listen to her in person about all she went through from the hands of these people who are confused about their jobs but I could not because of the circumstances beyond my control. It happens that there are still people who suffer in silence with no one to talk to.
Loving and caring Parent(s) are made to go through the pains of losing their children to foster homes and to people they do not know, this is disheartening as I can not stop to imagine how unfair this is.
In Nigeria at the child welfare level we have few of these cases. Personally I have experienced the child welfare in Nigeria as a child and it was not that bad. But if other children and families out there can not say same like me then we have to raise our voices.
Unfortunately this post is not based on any personal story or experience but a way of joining the voices that say, "caring parents must not be denied of their rights as parents towards their children" and "families must be protected not destroy the bond and happiness that they share".
I write because I am against the approach of the CPS and believe that if we can raise our voices it means that we are looking out for each other and care about what others are going through. It shows that we love and feel the pains of others. At the end of the day children suffer this separation even more, they are denied parental care and love and made to suffer psychologically.
I think Brenda Scott is right that the CPS should be scrapped.
To all parent(s) who are in one way or the other going through the pain of denied right from their children, we know your stories and will continue to raise our voices.
Happy home should not be broken, happy children should not be made to suffer. Families are to be protected for a healthy world.
Thank you @markwhittam and @canadian-coconut for giving people the opportunity to tell their stories.
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are using "Child Protection Agencies"
to take children away from loving families
and place them in foster care or group homes
or put up for adoption.
THESE FAMILIES NEED PROTECTING.
Thank-you @gloglo for supporting @familyprotection
Its my pleasure all the way. It is very important to me that families are happy.
Thank you for supporting @familyprotection and helping to raise awareness on this subject, you say you have no experience but we still value your opinion as a upstanding member of this community.
Thanks for caring.
Bless.
Thank you very much @markwhittam and I appreciate tgat you value this little effort. But I feel I can do more, my voice is loud enough and I will use it, I hope to come in contact with people suffering from these cps soon and lay out plans to help in person. Thank you very much.
Appreciate, without parents a baby are really valueless by the social citizenship, we are pray to all infant
You are very right.
Its quite hurting to know that family was the first thing that comes before everything nowadays things have gone wrong in every ramification really, however I'm hope things would one day change for the better.
Amazing here my friend @gloglo
I hope so too. Children really do not deserve to be treated cruelly. CPS could be worsening things.
It is really so hurtful. I can't imagine being separated from my children by any agency, I would just die. This is wicked, inhuman and so so cruel. Please stop this
That is how these parents feel. They are in great pain and wish they could give up. I know how this things feel. I hope one day and very soon it will get to stop.
A young lady @bniode wrote this blog post five days ago here https://steemit.com/familyprotection/@bniode/they-took-her-away-from-me
She was talking about how CPS (or one shady ministry of the Nigerian government) took away her sister which she could not trace at the moment after many years of separation and zero paper trail. I think it should be a crime to create more problems in the guise of solving one.
I read that post too and I could not believe my eyes. I do not know how this will happen, am not an authority yet but I hope to help fix that mess. Thank you very much for sharing her link here.
I really do not know how they allow for such things to happen in the first place. I read horror stories of parents having their kids taken away on the flimsiest of excuses from other continents. Never knew it is happening right in my backyard!
It happens, only that here it is not that rampant as in other countries but it does not have to happen at all.
It is an eye opener I must confess.
Served it's purpose, am glad.
Yes, it did.
Wow... Amazing thoughts right here my dear.... The family is actually the bedrock of the society. The violence or goodness we experience in our world today are due to the actions or in actions of some people who also came out of one family or the other. Growing a family together helps foster love and peace. I find your post informative and educating. Thanks dear for sharing.
Am glad you found it informative. But there are group of people who disguise and intentionally take people away from their loved ones and family. These people are the child protective service. We are raising our voices for them to stop the pain they cause some families who fall into their trap.
We all are in this together and our voice will be heard. It is quite disheartening that some people will want to separate children from their parents. It is saddening. Sometimes I just wonder where the world is going or what the world is turning into. Only God knows the kind of lessons they infuse in these children when they take them away. We will collectively stop this.
Yes we will.
Wonderful article Gloria!!!
Hahah!!! Thank you @mammasitta. Goood to have you here!🤗🤗
I do not think it should be eliminated, it must be modified, finally if there are children at risk, the point is that from the beginning to the present they are abusing by separating by any action instead of betting on the family constitution offering first psychological care, therapies playful for infants, religious therapy, social help.
You said well, but it might interest you to know that for several years modification has taken place.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Protective_Services
Still nothing has changed, some children have lost their lives, reports of rape and all of that. So why do they decieve themselves as child protectors.
Thank you for that wonderful contribution.
Yeah children that lack parental care end up living a who-cares life which later leads to destruction but a child with paternal care has good upbringing which later lead to distinction....most of the touts at there are there just because they lack the vital key in their life (paternal care).....nice one @gloglo 👍👍
Very true . Parental care is important in a child's life. That is why we ask CPS to stop the seperation they create among caring and families. Thank you dear.
Many families need to read this post because it will help to strengthen most home and Children that lacks parental care. I give you my vote thanks
Thank you
Wow!!! so beautiful your art i like your post i wait for your next post carry on your life all the best @bijoy123
Thank you very much.
tnx
awesome post.. the children is looking so beautiful...thank you @gloglo for sharing with us.. &....very good job... keep it up...
Thank you but am sure if you had read this post you would see that children deserve to be happier and beautiful if cps does not come into the picture.
They all look amazing together don't they?
My its real its happening everyday and everywhere both in Nigeria and america. These things happen.. Thanks for the awareness
Very true. Thank you very much
awsome post the children is happens with his prants and children is unhappy without his prants
There is too much harmful things Children are exposed to out there from their daily interactions with other people to the content they are exposed to on electronic media and steps should be taken to properly protect their innocence.
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Thank you for that wonderful contribution.
Over time government intentions for children have been hijacked and the families are the victims which leads to an unstable life for the child. Good post.
Very true. But they have the power and have refused to do nothing.
Thank you @gloglo for this post, it was very well written and very much to the point. Also thank you for the mention, it means a lot to me. ❤️️❤️️❤️️
You very much welcome my friend.
I am glad to go through this post because I have been an advocate of child protection and health. They are so innocent and deserve our protection.
They deaerve ojr protection to the last. They are innocent and harmless.
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Thank you very much
You are most welcome
I agree with him @gloglo
Children really deserve the best...not the worst. Nice words @gloglo
You are correct. Its not a crime to be a child.