Family Rights and Child Abuse News

New CPS Workers Are the Cure and the Problem

by Alexandra Wax

After the last year produced a spate of terrible cases like the one we told you about Friday, the state of Texas got approval to add 840 caseworker positions to CPS as advocates for abused children both in and out of the system.

Adding to the frustration are concerns about how data is recorded: while more than a 25 percent increase in children removed from their homes was posted in Harris County between 2005 and 2006, other counties don't keep their data in the same format - or sometimes at all - making comparison hard.

Houstonist

August 29, 2006

L.A. official targets foster care system

by Troy Anderson

Disturbed to learn that Los Angeles County social workers returned dozens of children to parents or caretakers who later killed them, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo asked the grand jury on Monday to investigate and identify areas for reform.

"We have a child welfare system that is broken," Delgadillo said. "And I'm not going to sit on the sidelines while kids are being harmed by the very system designed to protect them. "We think there are as many, maybe more, than 75 children whose lives have been lost" in the last five years, he said.

Whittier Daily News

August 29, 2006

Brainwashing The Children: A Global Effort (Part 4)

by Jill Cohen Walker, J.D.

As the battle for total control over our children escalates, the bastions of social services in almost every nation are working overtime to steal them and turn them into state property.

This is a global effort, not just an assault on American children, and no effort is too great to those who want to brainwash the children and make them citizens of the new global order. The "it takes a village" crowd is thrilled whenever inroads are made by the liberals into parental rights. They'd prefer we didn't have any, but their so-called platform is one grounded in hypocrisy.

News With Views

August 19, 2006

Survey: One-Third of Foster-Parent Molestations Homosexual | Christianpost.com

by Audrey Barrick

Evangelicals have repeatedly pointed out that gay marriage "damages" children while fighting to protect marriage. A family think-tank brought attention to new evidence that revealed the risks of permitting homosexual foster-parents.

A tally from Illinois and Minnesota (2003-2005) showed that a third of foster-parent molestation perpetrators engaged in homosexuality with their charges - their own foster-children. Both states permit homosexual foster-parents. According to the tally of 40 foster-parents, 12 foster mothers sexually abused their charges, nine of whom molested foster-daughters, and 28 foster-fathers sexually abused their charges. The data showed that 18 percent of foster-fathers sexually abused foster-sons. Overall, 65 percent of foster-parent perpetrators engaged in heterosexuality and 35 percent in homosexuality with their charges.

The Christian Post (IL & MO)

August 14, 2006

Charity steps in to help women's shelter

by Courtney Randon

BROCKTON - As Womansplace Crisis Center faces possible closure after a 33-percent budget cut from the Department of Social Services, the United Way of Greater Plymouth County is pledging to do whatever it can to keep the emergency shelter open.

"This is a tragedy in the making. It defies logic," said Dennis Carman, President and CEO of United Way of Greater Plymouth County. As the only emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence in Plymouth county, the area could be losing a "valuable refuge" Carman said. "No one is sure of why." DSS said funding this year changed because of a new set of criteria based on two years of research into services for victims of domestic violence.

The Enterprise (MA)

August 12, 2006