I commend you for making this site about this MOST IMPORTANT subject.... the atrocities of child services. This agency is destroying the very fiber of our country....the sanctity of family! Having lost 2 grandkids to these monsters based totally on LIES, I am doing everything in my power to educate the public. Good luck on your endeavor! Sally Hindley in Ohio

Hi - Sally Hindley in Ohio, when we get the newspaper to Ohio, we shall call upon you for assistance - okay? It is all about letting people know. Thanks, Sally Borghese in Michigan (also a grandmother with one missing precious granddaughter to this evil system)

Education of people is very noble, in addition the newspaper can also educate people how to file lawsuits against individuals and these organizations for the damages done to countless people so that a few can make money for their own living. Nobody is above law, but the corrupt system makes the people believe otherwise. All my best wishes for the success of your newspaper.

You have brought out many ideas and drives people and organizations are doing to make people aware. However, parallel to this is what do we do as a REFORM. The congressmen still aren't aware of how bad the current situation is. Don't know if you realize it but the Last week in April is Child Abuse Awareness Week, which coincidentally is just before Foster Care Awareness Month. The congressional approval recognizing Child Abuse Week came up last year and I believe it passed with close to 100% approval. Guess what figures of child abuse were given by the Child Protective Agencies. Consider this simple rule. It takes 10 atta boys to cancel 1 a sh*T. The latter being a report of child abuse. So that means we need to look for 10 positive things that are helping families. Please send me one. I …morebet you that this is pretty hard. I see so many articles on abuse situations. To me this just adds fuel to the fire to support why the agency must remain in existence. Not to mention, over shadows on what we as parents can do to protect our families. My vision is a simple one "Parents raise Families, Not Laws" This is not meant to put lawyers out of business. But is meant to remind everyone that Parents need to be recognized as the most important person to raise a family. Are there any laws that can truly direct the complex issues of families?? Currently, Parents have no rights. As a matter of fact there is an Assembly women in California who wants to ban spanking. Just another example of how the pendulum is swinging and trying to change the definition of Child Abuse. When in actuality, most states have laws that define true child abuse. Plus Child Protective Agencies have been very lax in the documenting if abuse really exists. Simply put, if someone says and or reports a abusive situation, which may have never happened, the agency takes the stand, "If it could have happened, it probably did" This is probably a major reason there is an 80% rate of false allegations. Not to mention, most of the time, the agency takes the attitude, we don't have the time to fully document, so we will pull the child and fill in the details later. Question, why remove the child, why not remove the abuser? You mentioned Senator Schaeffer. She is a very brave lady. However, since again I mention, our Legislators only see abuse, and she had to pull her bill the first time since her colleagues slashed and burned the meaningful parts. Mainly the idea of trying to abolish Child Services. After all, we all know they are the Leaders in Protecting our children. NOT. She has personally asked members of our group, NFPCAR-National Foster Parent Coalition for Allegation Reform for many ideas on Reform. Yes, I was a Foster Parent who was falsely accused. Did a recent poll with Foster Parents and Found out that 85% where also bio and/or adoptive parents. So how do our laws handle these parents, since there is a separation of legal avenues dealing with bio or foster parents. How does that help mentioning that there is 6 times more abuse with Foster Parents. Bet you didn’t know that nationally 76;000 Foster Parents were leaving the system. I recently received a letter written by our State Director in Florida about the role she played as a Foster Parent. Will be putting this on the Florida State Page as soon as I receiver her permission. Her main fault that led to her false allegations was that she cared too much for her children and defended the children as to their proper care. Bottom line, Child Protective Services, do not want Foster Parents who care, but ones that will just baby sit these children for a while. Sorry to be so lengthy, but I urge you to please balance your paper with reforms and ideas that have worked for families. Each time a child is removed whether abuse was present or false, this has severe emotional consequences on the child for their present and future development. So please visit our first step of false Allegation Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fosterparentallegations/ . Our companion site, or second step, with assistance on what can be done to help you as a parent to defend yourself at: http://rscraps.com/NFPCAR/ and Finally our Third Step companion site, dedicated to Reform and our developing eBook at http://fpreform.org . Why do we have three different sites. Primarily because our First Priority is helping One Parent at a Time through our group discussion site. By the way, one of our members has submitted an idea found at: http://ideablob.com/ideas/2196-Miranda-Dog-Tags-for-Children? Hey, we may not win this contest. But to us that is not important. Not as important as helping our Parents and Families. God Bless, GranPa Chuck

David Hyatt, Ohio - What is truly sad is that nobody appreciates just how outrageous and egregious the "family law" business is and to what depths it has sunk. The mainstream media does not wish to spawn controversy with the truth so the efforts to dedicate a newspaper with wide circulation is to be commended. For the sake of our children, families and nation the heinous activities paid for with mis-appropriated social security $$$ must stopped and the bureaucrats held accountable. Sadly, one unfortunate fact is certain: there will not be any shortage of illegal and immoral examples of these greedy activities for publication.

State Family Courts across the nation are out of control. Kidnapping children and placing them with strangers, seperating fit parents from there children after divorce or when the parents were never married, all for money! We need to fight the terrorists within our borders rather than sending our children to foreign soil to fight for ideals which "they" doen't even have here at home.

Can't think of a better cause to put the funds into www.myspace.com/familyrights

Child protection services is a sham. They say they are protecting children from their family by placing them with strangers. What they are doing is placing children in a much greater abusive situation where the children have no one they know or can trust to turn to when they are truly being abused. The sad truth is that parents can't protect their children from the abuse of CPS. So many of these children are being protected to death. There is no system protecting good parents and their children from a system that is so far out of control that children are being abused simply by being removed from loving and caring parents. Any outrageous excuse can be used with nothing to prove that allegation is in anyway true. Faster care does not stop child abuse but adds to the problem and increases th…moree risks and the numbers of children being abused. There is no sure way of protecting children and stopping child abuse and CPS is not the answer. It is like taking a child from a boat that might tip over in time and tossing that child in the water with the hopes that it will be safe even when they know there are sharks in the water. Honesty and truth mean nothing to CPS. Justice means nothing in family courts. Money is the name of the game that is the driving force in destroying children and families. We need to protect our children by protecting the family and all their rights.

The family court system along with so called CPS is the primary abuser of children and destroyer of families in our nation. The courts, the judges, the court officers, and so called Guardians prey on families and profit from the conflict they cultivate in divorce and custody proceedings. It is shameful. New York State has been sitting on Shared Parenting legislation for several years now. It sits there and people and their children suffer. What has happened to our country? Paul Greiner:www.thegeezerzone.com

WONDERFUL...SIMPLY WONDERFUL

No doubt that the system is in need of an overhaul. It is clear that you are passionate about this subject and that you have significant experience with it. I too am involved with the Forster Care system and Guardians. I've seen the abuse and I'm aware of the fact that quite a few Foster Family providers are in it for the money. That is sad but true. I question your finding of 80% of those placed in Foster care not being necessary. That figure is not realistic! I don't believer for one minute that children are being placed in Forster care just so that the people administering the system can have a job. Judges place children in Foster care because they need to be there either temporarily or more permanently. Sorry, I just don't buy the corruption angle on the administration side.…more On the provider side; yes, but not the admin side. Your idea for a publication as described is wonderful. Pursue that until you are successful. The citizens of this country are in need of enlightenment on this subject and this would be a great vehicle to do just that. Maybe not quite as radical as you invision, but non-the-less informative and fact-based.

RE:Comment by jlibascifl1 Can you tell me why then, a judge says the only problem he sees in a case is the mother maintaining better supervision, and DHS in 22 months comes up with all these other things no one ever heard of, just before a court hearing? The CASA worker was the one making most of the complaints, but this time others on the scene, therapists and such, did not see what she saw. She was taken off of the case by the judge. The judge for 22 months, has refused to terminate rights, but DHS keeps asking

DHS wanted us to get a divorce after we have been married for 20 years, now 21 in order to get our daughter back! Dont think that is going to happen. DHS/CPS promoting the action of ripping familys apart. Glad to see many are taking a stand and fighting against a dysfunctional system. YES you have my vote.

jlibascifl1, I am not denying that there is child abuse. The 80% figure I gave is true, once ALL the facts were obtained. Please note, this was a concern and recommendation given by California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care (http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/jc/tflists/bluerib.htm). If one reads the report, you can see that many times this was said, in addition the Courts did not have enough time to review cases and/or there were inexperienced judges to handle case. You also say many Parents are in it for the money. But I consider this occupation can be a high risk situation and one may have to work 24/7. Not to mention for the last 5 years 76,000 Foster Parents have been quitting nationally on the average. Another point for your consideration. Last year congress passed…more, almost unanimously to make the last week in April Child Abuse Awareness week. And we all know Foster Appreciation Month is in May. Coincidence??? Yes there are many caring Foster Parents and I am appreciative for that. However, my colleague, who works with many Parents Nationally had these case come across her desk: 1. a baby falling asleep in his high chair, 2. a mother feeding her five children McDonald's five times in one week, 3.time out for misbehavior deemed to long a time by an unmarried single social worker who has no children of her own, 4. removing TV privileges from an unruly child, 5.and taking a teens bicycle helmet away from her and she having to walk a half mile to school on a country road with her friends. _*All these things are now child abuse. Remember, she has personally SEEN the documentation on these charges So how far has the pendulum swung in the name of protecting our children, with CPS as the Child Protector?? Are they in it for the money, most definitely. Are they in it for the Parents OR Children?? Read more and let me know.

All, please read the story of how our system was put into place at www.uniformdivorce.com The American Bar Association through its drafting arm created a plan to replace marriage with the institution of divorce by establishing the no-fault divorce model and shepherding into law throughout the US. The plan effectively captialized on the normal marital conflict that is endemic to human relations and leveraged it to breakdown the relationship of trust that exists within marriage. The ABA plan effectively created World World III in which Americans are at war with Americans just like the civil war only worse. The children are caught in the middle having to choose sides and often turned against their own parents. The State uses this conflict as an excuse to confiscate the rights of parents…more even taking possession of the children. Marriage is so destroyed by this process that the population no longer trusts it and the out of wedlock birth rate soars to 40%. The last time such a plan was foisted upon a nation was when Vladmir Lenin used Russian no-fault divorce in 1917 after the Bolshevik Revolution to destroy the social order of Russia and usher in the police state. The state, under the control of elitist, ideological criminals, seized all property and all rights and inflicted a reign of terror on its people. Guess what? It's now here in Amerika. What are you going to do about it? Watch this website: www.dofh.org. Post your ideas here at www.dofh.wordpress.com for safeguarding marriage and family and reestablishing the gift of human trust between men and women that holds all the hope for healing and progress within the family and within our nation.

CPS has kidnapped two of my grand children. I have been fighting them for two years trying to get custody or guardianship of both babies. They would rather sell them than let the grand parents have them. I can't believe all of the lies that they come up with, and then have the nerve to say they are professionals!! What a joke!! Professional Kidnappers!! I hope we get the paper in North Carolina, I'm willing to help in anyway that I can!! Tammy LaForce

Thanks to everyone who is voting, commenting and advising. The printed word has impact with those that have no idea of what is truly going on. The children are so very precious!!

Bring the IV-mainliners to light. Addicts of the Federal Dole must be cured. Racketeering, Extortion and Embezzlements should never be couched upon or via "best interests of children." With sincerity of expression and concern for all afflicted, - just adad

people are losing their rights to live in this country via cps and the justice system in family court - I live in a small community in Eastern Washington State and CPS is so corrupt people are saying some workers are cruising the Wal-Mart super store looking for cute "white" kids - CPS files 30 to 40 dependencies a week and if you are poor and happen to have a cute child you are at risk for attacks from cps - They **** up so many federal dollars and what do they do? Abuse the Children and tear families apart

As an advocate for equal parenting I am here to make my vote (voice) count. The injustices from our judical system are tearing families apart for profit. The courts are not looking out for the best interest of the children but rather cloaking themselves in immunity as they use our children for federal funding. Leisha

Parents and children are suffering across this state and nation. Children are being taken from good families and put into foster care where they are destroyed. Parents and grandparents are spending every last cent that they have in legal battles where the courts are stacked against them. Families not only loose precious children but, they loose their homes and mental well being trying to save their babies. Too many people are profiting from this STATE SANCTIONED ABUSE OF OUR CHILDREN. The very people who condemn these children and families are profiting from having interests in supporting and contract agencies that are under CPS. Countless children are being abused, drugged, berated, neglected, raped and murdered. BECAUSE CPS AND THE JUDGE SAID SO! NOT BY THEIR PARENTS BUT…more BY FOSTER CARE HOMES. Isn’t it time that we put a stop to the holocaust of the AMERICAN FAMILY. ISN'T IT TIME THAT WE STAND UP for our children? As citizens we are demanding total reform of the CHILD PROTECTIVE SYSTEM! We are gathering an army of supporters and we are making our voices heard. MY TAX DOLLARS WILL NOT GO TOWARD THE DESTRUCTION OF CHILDREN AND THIER FAMILIES. Take Title IV funding and use it to set up a non profit organization that will help MOMS AND DADS prove themselves fit and good parents.TAKE THE POWER AWAY FROM THOSE WHO HAVE CORRUPTED THE SYSTEM AND WHO ARE GUILTY OF BEING DESTROYERS. Martha Hyde

I do not understand how this voting thing works since I clicked on the vote button and it automatically came up and said thank you for your vote. It does not let the person actually vote yeh or ney or even in numbers as I have seen in other voting polls, but never the less I am always in favor of reforming the system to which we all or most acknowledge is necessary on many levles. I applaud and support your efforts. familiesagainstabuse.org

You are absolutely right. I have also seen these horrors first hand, and something must be done about this --finally! This has gone on for too long. I wish you all the best, and you a vote from me!