CPS to steal yet another child......

Money for nothing,
And (y)our Kids for free.

In/of/from a land,
Where MAFIA activities are legalized,
Parenthood criminalized,
For money idolized.

Welcome to "our" more compassionately enlightened MAFIA - Modern Alienating Fematicals In Action.

Where the motives remain essentially the same to those of the MAFIA of presumably "our" past bygone eras.

Best interest of . . . (orwellian flip) . . . politically correct self-interest;

Where many an entrusted,
Actively or passively serves,
In the bleeding of hearts,
The picking of pockets,
And dowsing of dreams,
Of children,
In the name of children.

IV-mainliners need be brought to light;
Not further rewarded or incentivized.

This is Your State on Dough.
Any questions?

Help us bring IV-mainliners to light.

Through such, we may at least temper,
Further uses, misuses and abuses of children of the Almighty.

- just adad

if the grandparents are fit, they should have the child legally and ethically.

Money,You Bet ,

ref
www.nccpr.org

THE PRICE OF PANIC/11

NO GOOD DEED …
The incentives for panic that apply to
caseworkers and judges go all the way to the
top.
The federal government lavishes billions
of dollars each year on foster care.

Much of it can’t be used for anything else.
And the foster care money comes as an
open-ended entitlement. For every eligible
child, the federal government reimburses 50
to 83 cents of every dollar spent to keep that
child in foster care. In Florida this adds up
to an estimated $140 million per year.30
The federal government offers far,
far less for safe, proven alternatives to foster
care - -and that funding is not an entitlement.

As a result, the feds wind up spending
at least nine times as much on foster care
as on alternatives.31 And the system creates
a perverse incentive: Though alternatives
cost less in total dollars, it may sometimes
cost a state less to throw a child into foster
care.
Any judge
knows that if he listens to the parent, sends
the child back home and then something
goes wrong, his entire career may be in
jeopardy. If, on the other hand, he listens to
the lawyer from DCF and keeps the child in
foster care, the child may suffer all sorts of
harm, but the judge is safe.
The deck remains stacked throughout
the process. In a criminal proceeding, the
defendant must be proven guilty beyond a
reasonable doubt. But the standard DCF
must meet to take away a child and put him
or her in foster care is “preponderance of the
evidence,” the lowest standard in American
jurisprudence – the same standard used to
determine which insurance company pays
for a fender bender.

Who pays the price of panic?
Child welfare systems are built on a foundation of myths.
In fact, it is children who pay the price of panic. It is children who suffer sometimes-lifelong emotional
trauma, and may emerge from foster care unable to love or trust anyone. And it is children who
often wind up abused in foster care itself.
Sometimes, children really are brutally abused. Sometimes foster care really is the least detrimental
alternative. But often children are taken from parents whose only crime is poverty. In other
cases, the parents have real problems, but there is no need to punish their children by throwing them into
foster care, a system that one recent study found churns out walking wounded four times out of five.10
www.nccpr.org

Every single judge, lawyer and CPS employee should be turned into CPS for child abuse. This is blatant abuse of a child. Let them go thru the nightmare that this family and thousands more are living with daily.

Turn around is fair play as far as I'm concerned.

This defies rhyme or reason. What could possibly be their motive? hmm...Money maybe....do ya think? =/

If her parental rights are terminated, the Stuths may never see their granddaughter again because the state wants the foster parent -- a single mom -- to adopt the child.

"It's impossible to put into words to explain to anybody that your family member, your granddaughter who you've raised since an infant could just be gone from your life in an instant," said AnneMarie.

The Department of Social and Health Services wouldn't answer our questions about the case, but a top official who’s quit the job since our interview defended the department’s actions.

"The first requirement is that any placement be in the best interest of the child and we are to look to relatives for that and we do,” said Cheryl Stephani, former Director of the Children’s Administration of DSHS. “But we can't forget that we always need to be looking at the best interest of the child."

Court records show the child is bonded with her grandparents. She makes cards and pictures for them all the time. And at a scheduled visit with her grandparents last October, the toddler’s face lit up with excitement when she spotted her grandma and grandpa.

"To see the excitement in her eyes and know how we feel inside, there's no way to put that into words," said AnneMarie.

State law is clear that if a child can't live with parents, relatives must be considered first before foster care. But in this case, the state is so committed to having the child adopted by the foster parent that they tried to seal the deal before trial.

A few weeks ago, an assistant attorney general sent a settlement offer to the young biological mom. It stated if she voluntarily gave up her parental rights and allowed the foster mother to adopt the child, she and the grandparents could visit the little girl four times a year and get two pictures of her in the mail every year.

The biological mother would not agree to those conditions and instead is at the trial, fighting to keep her child.