Hello to Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

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This message is to bring awareness. It seems that Child Protective Services (CPS) does "target" Christians with the threat of removing children from Christian homes. "Christians" are labeled as teaching "hatred" to children. They especially seem to frown upon Christian families that homeschool.

Below are some facts, questions, quotes, links etc... to help you understand this disturbing trend. Please note that there ARE children in the U.S. that are being abused and DO need help....however, the current system (CPS) actually puts children at greater risk, destroys innocent families and seems to have an agenda of eventually making all children "wards of the state" to further, perhaps, a New World view.

#1 Child Protective Services (CPS) has VAST power. This power can be weilded against any parent simply by an anonymous phone call to CPS. Anyone that doesn't "like you" and or doesn't agree with your beliefs... can report you and then start a basic inquisition style "witchhunt" similar to what occurred in the middle ages.

#2 "There is a strong anti-Christian sentiment among many CPS workers. They assume all Christians believe in corporal punishment, which is tantamount to abuse in 'child-saver' circles. Christians are also seen as rigid and intolerant, unfit to rear children for the New World Order. Homosexual case workers, aware of Christian teachings regarding their lifestyle, are often hostile to parents who display their faith. The New York State Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (CFCCA) warns that parents who...display an 'over involvement in religion' are suspect". (Brenda Scott- "out of Control").

#3 "These are not isolated incidents. Every year, it is estimated that over 1 million people are falsely accused of child abuse or child neglect in this country". (*Brenda Scott-Investigative Reporter- from her book "Out of Control").

#4 Most case workers for CPS are not parents and many are homosexual. They are not interested in helping families (as they claim). They only get funds from the government if the child is removed from the home and placed in foster care...some 12 billion dollars per year.

#5 "Religious" families tend to be targeted...especially if the parents teach their children that homosexuality is wrong. Case workers tend to see that as teaching children to "hate" and then claim the parents are psychologically abusing their children and then can infact remove the children from the home.

#6 If CPS comes knocking at your door, there is a 40% chance they will take your child regardless if you have done anything wrong or not.

#7 It IS a HORRIBLE thing for children to be abused or neglected...and children that are experiencing abuse or neglect DO need help. However, many children who are NOT abused or neglected ARE taken out of the home thus destroying healthy families and traumatizing children unjustly.

#8 MORE abuse, sexual abuse and neglect occurs while in foster care than in the original home. Thus, the system that is supposed to be helping children actually puts children at risk. See: http://www.cpswatch.com/stats/

#9 Hillary Clinton, in her book "It takes a Village" often quotes Dr. C. Henry Kempe...(see website The New American) :
          "We must remove the children from the crude influence of families,"
Soviet Communist Party educators were instructed at a conference in 1918. "We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them." Dr. C. Henry Kempe, the most influential American advocate of home visitation programs, subscribed wholeheartedly to that concept." http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/08-30-99/vo15no18_beware.htm

#10 The general public is under the FALSE assumption that children are only removed if there is evidence of abuse or neglect.

#11 Social workers are allowed to violate constitutional rights.

#12 Innocent parents may appear on computer registers and be branded "child abuser" for life.

#13 In many states if a child is in foster care for 18 months then the child is placed for adoption...meanwhile due to redtape and slowness by CPS case workers it may take longer than that for the innocent family to prove themselves innocent. Unfortunately, MANY families who are proven innocent STILL lose their parental rights even though there is no evidence and the case has been written up as "invalid".

#14 CPS is empowered to intervene into a home if they feel a child is at "risk". Making "at risk" assessments is arbitrary and unsupervised. A Norman Polansky risk assessment worksheet may be used...for example it is a strike against a parent if there is no television in the home. If a parent makes a comment about the "trash" on television these days then it is a strike against the parent etc... (Brenda Scott, "Out of Control"). Also dolls must be available to boys and trucks must be available to girls or it is a strike against the parent in this "at risk" assessment.

#15 Sexual education is taught in schools, but, if a child "knows" about sex or repeats similar things as to what they heard at sex ed, then the parents can be brought into questioning and end up losing their parental rights.

#16 Families are known to be a stumbling block to educating children for a global community. Again, government funding is not given to CPS if the case worker tries to "help" the family...but, rather money is only given if the case worker removes the child from the home.

#17 "Throughout America, an average of 3,000 children a day are stolen from their homes and placed in foster care to fuel a multi-billion dollar money-making machine."
See: National Outrage-http://www.nationaloutrage.org/

#18 "The Federal government provides tremendous financial incentives to maintain foster care programs.
See: http://home.rica.net/rthoma/foster05.htm

#19 Abuse is widespread within foster care homes, so why are they taking children from innocent families and placing these children in homes where they will probably be abused or neglected for the very first time?
http://home.rica.net/rthoma/foster04.htm

#20 "Child protective agencies nationwide are forcibly removing more children from their homes even when the agencies' own investigations establish that the children have not been abused or neglected, according to reports submitted by state agencies to the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN).... Once in foster care, state agencies further reported, children were much more likely to be maltreated than they are in their own homes."
See: http://www.cpswatch.com/reports/nccan.htm

#21 "America's child protection system has immense power. It operates in secrecy. It enjoys total immunity.Parents and children have few meaningful rights. Under current law, the system created to protect children has become America's greatest source of family and child abuse".
See: http://www.childprotectionreform.org/

#22 Many interrogations include strip searches, even when there has been no substantiated evidence of any wrong doing by a parent.
See: http://home.rica.net/rthoma/invest03.htm

#23 "According to Hillary Rodham Clinton, "There is no such thing as other people's children." One must respect a certain consistency in the First Lady's moral perspective: After all, as an attorney at Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Mrs. Clinton was a legal adviser to Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, a financial institution whose motto might well have been, "There is no such thing as other people's money." However, by laying custodial claim to all children in the name of the state, Mrs. Clinton is promoting a doctrine that is much more dangerous than financial fraud: parens patriae, the "parenthood of the state."
See: http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1996/vo12no14/vo12no14_child.htm

#24 "Parents will find the numbers reported by their own government alarming," said Cheryl Barnes, Director of CPSWatch, Inc., an organization that monitors child welfare agencies. "The public is under the impression that children are removed from their families only in cases of severe and life-threatening abuse or neglect."
See: http://www.cpswatch.com/press/080100.htm

#25 "These folks are fed by a child abuse industry to the tune of well over 12 billion dollars," said Susan Jackson, a family advocate and member of CPS Watch. "Cash harvested by social workers, diagnosticians, attorneys, foster homes and group homes, to name a few..."
See : http://www.cpswatch.com/press/080100.htm

#26 "Pennsylvania, Kansas and New Jersey led the states, where nearly half (43%) of the foster care placements in 1998 came from families where child protective services (CPS) workers unsubstantiated allegations of child mistreatment ". (percentage removed even though unsubstantiated for abuse or neglect)
See: http://www.tcbchronicles.com/0700/nccan.htm#Table Two

#27 ""Our investigators discovered that children are eleven times more likely to be sexually abused in state care than they are in their own homes."
See: http://www.tcbchronicles.com/0700/nccan.htm#Table One

Additional links =

American Freedom Alliance :
http://www.afaorg.net/Children.htm

Child Protective Services Watch :
http://www.cpswatch.com/

Family Alert
http://www.familyalert.org/

Vocal
http://www.vocalny.org/

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