The children "lost" by child protective services is not a mere occasional unfortunate fluke.
The Lost
Children
The majority of children in "foster care" are not removed from abusive or neglectful parents, but rather from the loving care of responsible parents. This is the case in an alarming number of cases.
How Great the
Need?
According to Hunter College political scientist Andrew Polsky, social work and other "helping professions" have been working for more than a century to fuse with government and enable themselves to exercise coercive power. He calls this fusion the "therapeutic state," and argues in his 1991 book, The Rise of the Therapeutic State, that it uses child abuse as a pretext for augmenting its own power. "Thousands of families," writes Polsky, "have been subjected to traumatizing state investigations.
FAMILY ADVOCACY - Child Removal Lacks Due Process
Children ripped from their families and then abused, neglected, starved, sexually assualted, and sometimes murdered by the industry that is paid to "protect" them.
How Safe the
Services?
Secrecy, torture, and abuse is the "norm" in foster care across the country.
How
Widespread a Problem?
The county does not receive as much in Federal funds for 'front-end' services, which could help solve the problems causing family inadequacies, as it receives for out-of-home placements or Foster Care services. In other words, the Agency benefits, financially, from placing children in foster homes.
Incentives to
States
The rates for special-needs children can be a high as $2000 per child, according to Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. At these rates, foster parents with two such children in the home can expect approximately $48,000 of annual tax-free income.
Incentives to
Foster Parents
Article reveals the tip of the iceberg of the INDUSTRY of placement "agencies".
The Sectarian
Agencies
"When I see foster children, most of them are on a stimulant, anti-depressant or anti-psychotic - or usually all three."
Aija Guedel, former president of the School Nurses Organization of Washington
Medication of
Children
Lack of stability and a permanent home are evident in the extraordinarily high incidence of substance abuse, homelessness and psychological problems among former foster children.
The Effects
of Foster Care
Excerpted from an October 1995 newsletter of the Child Welfare League of America
Why
Children Are In Foster Care
While the bonds may wax and wane, a person's lifetime quest for personal identity is undeniably interwoven with his or her siblings.
The
Sibling Bond
Although the state's Child Welfare Services program is required by a 1982 law to keep children with parents whenever possible or reunify them quickly, foster care placement rates have risen from 6.8 per 1,000 children in 1988 to 9.2 in 1994. About half the children who enter foster care are not reunited with their parents.
The
Number of Children in Foster Care Rises:
Fewer Being Reunited
with Families
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