This terrible issue of Child Kidnapping by CPS (CHILD PROTECTING SERVICES) only come to my attention since I have been on steemit. While reading more about it, I think there is a flicker of hope. We must just go on and create more awareness, every day more people will come to know about their horrific practices.
More people will speak up, more people are winning court cases, more organisations are trying to get the laws changed.
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I started a petition to do my part in the fight against the Legal Kidnapping of innocent children from their parents.
I put it in my last post and to my disappointment not a lot of steemians signed it. You only have to put in your email address and last name. PLEASE IF YOU READ THIS SIGN MY PETITION BELOW. TOGETHER WE CAN ACHIEVE SOMETHING.
Please sign my petition and forward to your contacts:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/UNITED_NATIONS_STOP_LEGAL_CHILD_KIDNAPPING/?evVtWlb
I will also on my show, Romance on the Air, on mspwaves.com, talk a bit about this issue.
I will be on tomorrow, Sunday at 7 pm UTC. I will ask for donations for the cause. If you want to support @familyprotection please donate directly to their wallet. Follow this link for: how to tune in:
https://steemit.com/mspwaves/@hope777/6wrddd-remember-it-is-romance-on-the-air-at-7pm-utc
When dealing with children, parents should know that there are certain things that your child expect from you and is their right to receive from you.
I have also been making posts on family and parenting. If you are interested in that you will find it on my blog and will also be the topic of discussion on my radio show on MSP Waves.
It became, even more, also my fight after reading, that they try to break up marriages.
As everyone that knows me, know I am passionate about Love and marriage. It is in the best interest of a child for parents to stay together.
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If they think one parent is not "fit" or have medical problems etc. they would try and convince the wife or husband to leave that spouse. A visit from the CPS to the house of @snowpea already created a difference of opinion in their household. Her husband is on probation and wanted to cooperate and she did not want to let them in. So even the stress of something like this can create lots of problems for couples.
Statistics said that within 5 years of the death of a child parents get divorced. So having your kids kidnapped will amount to the same stress and mourning the loss of your children as when a child dies. So this could also break up marriages.
by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff
Shortly before Mother’s Day 3 years ago, on April 26, 2015, the Department for Children and Families (DCF) in Kansas seized 5 children from Raymond and Amelia Schwab over false allegations.
Now, just before Mother’s Day 2018 – 3 years later – their nightmare is officially over. The children are home and the case against them is finally closed.
The Schwab children should not have been taken, as is clear from the original allegations were found to be “unsubstantiated” less than 3 months after they were taken.
The children were taken in Kansas while their parents were packing up to move back to their home state of Colorado. The Schwab parents thought that things would be cleared up quickly, so they continued their move as they worked to get their children back.
The children were kept in Kansas DCF custody after this because their father, a Navy veteran suffering from PTSD, used medical cannabis to treat his PTSD in Colorado, a state where it was legal.
At least this a victory but with a twist for all parents that do get their children back
Now you have your children back but they are 3 years older, probably they have been abused mentally, sexually or physically and they are not the same kids anymore. So after you think your ordeal is over, you have new issues with your kids that is now been broken by the system. Differences about the raising of kids is another big reason why couples fight. So they can even get divorced after they got the kids back.
Make people aware that CPS is not your friend.
I am using @snowpea's example again. She said that it was her mother that reported her to the CPS after she confided in her and her alone. What have the world come to if your family become your worst enemy?
@snowpea just made another post about her mother's involvement with her being under investigation. Read about it here.
https://steemit.com/familyprotection/@snowpea/the-cps-investigation-my-mother-in-law-s-perpective
I was also reading @cfs.leaks post and I did not know his whole story so I asked him why did they took him from you and he replied this:
my son lied and said "i broke his arm and dragged him around the house BY his EAR" he said this after I took away all his video games except chess for the school days.
Please read his post here and see his full reply to me.
https://steemit.com/freeanthony/@cfs.leaks/i-am-living-my-worst-nightmare
Inform your children
You should tell your children about CPS. They should know what will happen to them if they make up stories about your household and what is happening in there. It came back to communication with kids that I also wrote about this week. When you are disciplining your child, sit down with him or her, explain what you are going to do and why. Explain why what they are doing or what they did were wrong.
We don't always know why kids do the things they do. You should inform your kids that they should really only complain at school if there was real abuse in the home. You will have to give age-appropriate information to your kids about abuse. They should know what is abuse. I don't want you to scare the kids, but this is a "real danger" and they should know it. This has the potential to destroy their whole life.
When children are removed from their homes, the results can be devastating. They are statistically in much more danger in foster or adoptive care than they are in their own homes, even if their home was a troubled home.
Chances are that they should never have been removed from their homes. If there was actually abuse or harm involved, the majority of children have relatives or another family they already know who love them and are willing to care for them. Yet most are placed with strangers. That is where the money is for states, thanks to the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.
Children are, at least, six times more likely to be molested, raped, abused, or killed in foster care than they are in their own homes.
Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform reports that there is an 80% failure rate of foster care.
https://medicalkidnap.com/2018/05/07/almost-40-of-american-families-at-risk-to-have-their-children-kidnapped-by-the-state-over-50-if-you-are-black/
Inform your family and friends.
CPS is an issue that you should talk about with your family and friends. Invite your friends and family to speak to you if they think there are issues that you need to address about your children. Discuss this with family and friends before any issues with the CPS comes up. Yes, I know, nobody really wants anyone meddling in your private affairs but it now has become a matter of life and death literally for your children and you. Rather your friends and family than the CPS!!! Lots of children die in foster care, children commit suicide, some parents and grandparents commit suicide after children have been taken away. There is enough material on the internet, we have lots of real-life stories here on steemit. Spread the word, let it be known what happens when CPS gets involved. Family should stand together. They should rather try and help if they see there is a maybe not so healthy situation in a household.
Talk about this in church.
Let this issue be known in your church and in small groups. This is also an attack from Satan on families. He know that when he destroys families, he destroys individual's lifes and he is destroying society. No wonder this evil of physical, mental, and sexual abuse, child trafficking, and child pornography is so rampant in our society today. Satan is on the loose and it is our duty to fight for what is right and defy his evil plans. If you are an active member of your church, there is lots than can be done here. Start support groups for families that are really experiencing troubles at home. Support these people from church. Let the Church be a safe place for parents and children. Let's pray every day that family and Christian values will be upheld.
Talk about it in your neighbourhood.
I come to understand that this is an extremely difficult situation for parents, as the CPS would try to silence you and they might come after you and your kids. I even see some accusations of people getting murdered.
Senator Nancy Schaefer: Did her Fight Against CPS Child Kidnapping Cause her Murder?
http://medicalkidnap.com/2015/04/27/senator-nancy-schaefer-did-her-fight-against-cps-corruption-cost-her-life/
In the old days, your neighbours were your friends. What are becoming of our society with our "individualism"? Everyone for himself and doesn't care about the rest. Befriend your neighbours again like in the old days. Be involved with each other. Talk to your neighbours about the CPS. Every person on this earth should be aware what will be the consequences if they get the CPS involved in somebody's life. Try to get people involved in the cause that don't have anything to loose. People with grown up kids, parents and grandparents. Let they speak up in the community. Organise rallies and support them or if you come to know about a rally spread the word and support them and join them!
Tyler with his parents at a candlelight vigil in Washington D.C. Photo from Free the Schwab Children Facebook page
Tyler was not taken by DCF because he was already 18 by the time his siblings were taken. He spoke out many times on behalf of his younger brothers and sister.
http://insanemedia.net/cps-child-protective-services-legally-kidnapped-fight-cps/1954
The website above has lots of resources and advise how to deal with the CPS. I actually wanted to write about parental rights but it seems that will be a topic for another day.
Join the cause follow @familyprotection. Children, parents and families are very precious! Thank you for reading.
Wow, I can't imagine what @cfs.leaks must be going through. His poor son must really regret saying that too. I'm hoping I never find out what it's like to lose my children...I can see how it would break up marriages and cause suicide. Thanks for helping to bring my story to light. Much love.❤
Thank you for your kind comment @snowpea. I really hope your husband finds work soon and that his depression will get better. He must go out the house, play outside with the kids, sunshine and exercise can help with depression. But if his depression is very serious, then he should maybe get professional help. Just keep those people away from your home. Your mother might phone them again if you don't speak with her. You should email your mother some of these articles so she can come to her senses and see what horrible things can happen if she goes on with this. God bless!
He went to the clinic twice over the winter, and both times they gave him an antidepressant. Both times it was taking too long to work, and he stopped taking them. now he's on a waiting lost to see a therapist...I would love for her to read these articles, but they might lead her back to the articles I wrote, and I don't want that lol. Very sensitive information, and here on steemit it's fine, but if they get out, or she reads them, and tells the social worker about what I wrote against cps...it could be bad.
nice to see you took the initiative to make a petition.. maybe asking for an email address is limiting people from signing it.. it MIGHT be best to just ask for a name, age, and city, country.. which should be sufficient..
also, sadly the link you have given does not work for me.. Perhaps you can check it?
http://insanemedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fight-child-protective-services-what-to-do-if-cps-comes-knocking
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Hi eco-alex. Thank you for taking the time to read and respond. They call it "legally kidnapping" because it is done supposedly "legally" by an organisation that overstep their boundaries and violate parents human rights. Everyone involved calls it "legal kidnap" if it were illegal then the states won't allow it, but now it is a corrupt legal system. Hope the link below works now. I will edit it in the post, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
http://insanemedia.net/cps-child-protective-services-legally-kidnapped-fight-cps/1954
i see what you mean.. strange how most child removals ARE in fact illegal though .. and somehow there is no one to regulate that! by that i mean they are removed without warrant most of the time.. which is very crazy.. but true
thanks for the link.. will check that out..
much love!
I think petitions are a very good idea.. but we have to really be careful how we word them and what the call to action is..
in this case I would say we should be asking for
"UNITED NATIONS: STOP ILLEGAL CHILD KIDNAPPING"
i.e to stop removals happening when there is no warrant or imminent threat to the child.
Legal kidnapping to me is when they have actually got a warrant and do things properly..(which is rare from what i can see)
it might be worth giving it a little more thought and potentially rewording?
The petition I started on avaaz.org and they have a format in which they do it. The email address I suppose is to make sure that it is not just names that are submitted and actually real persons. They only ask for the email, your first name and country. I think the worst that can happen is that they will email you afterwards and then you can just unsubscribe from their mailing list. Thank you for your suggestions.
I have a child of my own and can't stand CPS. I would really like to be of service. Any idea how I can start helping?
Where are you about @freeman123. If you have a child it is safe to support @familyprotection here on steemit. You can donate to their wallet directly. Support the posts on @familyprotection. The money is used to help people on steemit whose kids was taken. Go read some of the stories on familyprotection. Thank you for commenting.
I'm in michigan. But yea I read some of the posts and have been for spmetime, I just didn't know it was a group of accounts that all support the main account. I think that's really great. CPS actually tried to kidnap me when I was a kid too over some ridiculous misunderstanding. It was a pretty tough time, but I've been paying attention to them ever since. I like to write articles about all sorts of injustices I just haven't touched on this subject yet. I have zero support to offer other then that at this point but I'll start writing about it and reading more about it again.
Wow very useful information for the surrounding, I was very impressed.
Thanks!
Congratulation hope777! Your post has appeared on the hot page after 41min with 19 votes.
Thanks!
Speak up, speak out and don't stop. It's the only way to win
Thats true!
I only heard about the cps on steemit. It as kind of a new thing to me until I read about it from @familyprotection. I must admit that there should rather be a law against that. How can the state decide how a children should be brought up by their parents? Only the parents of a child knows best. I've not seen this thing in Ghana but I feel for the parents who are victimised in other countries. We must stand against it. I support you.
Hi @gadol, yes me too. This is also not a problem in South Africa. I think in our countries the state already has its hand full just to care for real orphans due to Aids and etc. They don't have the time to worry about removing children from homes that there might only be a slight problem. Thank you for your support. God bless!
God bless you too
There is a law about it, it's written into the Constitution but just like all the other protections that that beautiful document covers they've been slowly stripped away and the American people have allowed it to happen.
It's a runaway train at this point. Short of Gods intervention himself, I'm not sure what can be done to stop these people.
It's pure evil. There's no other way to define WHO they are (CPS) and what they do to children. 😠
Thank you for commenting @arayanz, as some cases are getting won now by families and some age out children is starting to sue the state, I think these people will start to be more cautious with their actions. Also, parents got more knowledgeable about this and don't let them in anymore without a warrant, I think it will become better and more difficult for them to just take children. I really am hopeful that the tide might be turning.
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STOPIt's not just child protection services, it's also privately paid social workers who are earning a truck load of money to destroy families in court. My children (and many others) were removed from me after they destroyed me financially then destroyed my reputation. I'm a mother. 4 incredible daughters 'legally' taken from me 7 years ago. I'm based in South Africa, they were taken back to the UK because my Bipolar Ex refused to return to SA to be with his kids.
It's been a devastating day to day survival spent trying to go around the nastiness and find enough money to get a visa to the UK and cash to survive there whilst also having money in the bank to prove I can.
It's a sick, sad, sadistic world. Part of my personal mission is to Right these Wrongs.
UK. Social services, schools, legal entities... nobody will listen to me so I've had to make a global name for myself in my career to make them see I'm serious.
Please follow my page, upvote and share my stories so that I can get to see my girls. Theyre dying without me as I am without them.
#teamsouthafrica #familyprotection #humanrights #rightthewrongs
I am sooo sorry to hear about this. Did you made a post about your full story? Did you saw your kids in this past 7 years?
Hello Hope, I've not written the full story yet as have to focus on building me and my career so that there is no dispute as to who I am and that I'm a good mother. That none of this should ever have happened and nobody should ever have to suffer like we have.
I'm getting there. It's not often I even talk about it let alone write on public forum. Thank You for caring. XB
Good luck dear. But when you are ready @familyprotection is a safe place to talk about it.