National CPS News Archive

Norway appreciates concerns over children in foster home

by Aarti Dhar

The Norwegian government has expressed understanding for India's concerns over the matter related to the separation of three-year old Abhigyan and one-year old Aishwarya from their natural parents.

A statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs here said Oslo is understood to be trying to find a solution to the issue. Pointing out that the matter has been pursued actively with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the strong demarches that were made in Oslo and in New Delhi on January 5, this year. On January 12, an official of the Indian embassy visited the foster home where the young children are staying and ascertained that they were in good health, the statement said.

thehindu.com

January 22, 2012

Norway cool to plea for custody of children to Indian parents

by Aarti Dhar

Even as Norway refuses to entertain requests from India to hand over the custody of young Abhigyan and Aishwarya to their parents, the grandparents of the two children met President Pratibha Devisingh Patil.

Three-year-old Abhigyan and his one-year-old sister Aishwarya are in foster care in Norway after the country's Child Protection Service charged their mother, Sagarika, with "negligence and unable to bring up" the children. Barnevarne, a child care service of Norway, took custody of the children in May last year when Aishwarya was just five months old and on breast feed.

thehindu.com

January 21, 2012

Government leader advocates for homeschool students to be taken from parents

by Holly Craw

Do parents have a right to homeschool their children? Not if they live in Sweden according to Lotta Edholm, a leader of the liberal party of Sweden.

In a blog article on January 16, she upholds the value of compulsory education in the public schools, and seems to view those using different approaches as deliberately keeping their children "away from school". Homeschooling is not considered actual education and is keeping children back from having a good life.

examiner.com

January 19, 2012

Once Upon a Time: True North

by Oliver Sava

I wonder how anyone involved with the foster care system feels after watching tonight's episode of Once Upon A Time?

Foster parents gathered around the TV with their children, tuning in to their favorite Sunday night drama to hear the main character rail against the very foundation of their family. Yeah, Emma's fictionalized experience with the foster care system was rough, but was her hateful rant really that necessary? The writers have Mary Margaret throw in half-assed objections to Emma's argument, but Emma just responds with more generalizations presented as fact, which is enough to sway her roommate to hop on the anti-foster care train.

avclub.com

January 15, 2012

Is Our Society Prejudiced Against Children?

by Kidjacked Editor

Childism is defined as “a prejudice against children on the ground of a belief that they are property and can (or even should) be controlled, enslaved, or removed to serve adult needs.”

She describes Child Protective Services (CPS) as a “rescue service-a child saving service-not a family service supporting child development generally and helping parents…” Rather than setting up a system of treatment, CPS became “an investigative service…a situation in which bad families suspected of making their children bad will be invaded and infiltrated.”

my.kidjacked.com

January 10, 2012

How P.C. Redefines and Distorts the Definition of Child Abuse

by Belladonna Rogers

Henry Kempe, a Denver pediatrician, realized in the 1960s that some of the children and infants who came to his hospital with severe injuries were being maltreated by their parents or caregivers.

The bad news spread quickly round the world and bureaucratic agencies were set up in almost all developed countries to try to rescue children from such abuse. Are these agencies successful in their efforts? This is the question that a long paper in a recent edition of The Lancet sets out to answer.

pjmedia.com

January 4, 2012

Care-case dad threatened to shoot social worker

A DAD banned from seeing his daughter at Christmas threatened to shoot a social worker, a court heard.

South Tyneside Magistrates' Court heard the girl had been taken into foster care and the dad blamed social services for them being separated over Christmas. Magistrates were told the man, from Hebburn, said he would get a gun and shoot the social worker he blamed at home.

jarrowandhebburngazette.com

December 30, 2011

Systematic approach to child protection urged

ISAMABAD: The participants at a national consultation urged the stakeholders to work on a systematic approach towards child protection, especially in post devolution scenario in order to find pragmatic solutions to the problems.

The national consultation "Adapting a system approach to child protection in Pakistan " was jointly organised by Child Rights Legal Centre and Save the Children. The participants observed that developing systematic approach to child protection was challenging however it should be done in order to meet national and international standards such as UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

dailytimes.com.pk

December 23, 2011

Computer program can help spot child abuse

U.S. researchers say a new computer program can help paramedics and pediatricians determine whether an injured child was abused.

"What happens is we get a child in a medical setting and are left with trying to find out what happened when the injury occurred," Nancy Kellogg, division head of child abuse pediatrics in the University of Texas School of Medicine, said. "Often the best information comes from law enforcement and CPS [Child Protective Services] investigators, but because they aren't physicians and don't know the mechanisms of injury, they often don't know what information is important to us to make a determination of abuse or neglect."

upi.com

December 6, 2011

Ke'onte, 12, tells Congress how he was drugged for 4 years in foster care

The seventh grader, known only as Ke'onte, told Congress that being given the mind-altering drugs was 'the worst thing anyone could do to foster kids'.

Ke'onte's plight came to light as a Government Accountability Office report was released that found the federal government had not done enough to oversee the treatment of foster children with powerful drugs. The study found cared-for children were up to 13 times more likely to be prescribed anti-psychotics and anti-depressants than other children.

dailymail.co.uk

December 2, 2011

Big biz, some black eyes on Black Friday

Several violent incidents broke out across the country amid what have been mostly peaceful Black Friday crowds, as millions of shoppers rushed into stores that opened their doors hours earlier than usual on the most anticipated shopping day of the year.

But tensions seemed to reach a boiling point at some stores. Twenty people, including children, were injured when a woman at a San Fernando Valley Walmart store used mace against other customers in what authorities referred to as a "competitive shopping" incident. And in Sacramento, CBS Station KOVR reports police are investigating a stabbing outside the Macy's store at Arden Fair Mall during the early morning hours Friday.

cbsnews.com

November 25, 2011

Target Practice Federal Ban Reversed

by Matthew Daly

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Wednesday it will not impose new restrictions on recreational shooting on public lands, a Thanksgiving gift for thousands of gun owners and hunters concerned about a draft plan to limit target shooting.

The policy, proposed this summer, could have closed millions of acres of federal land to gun use, a prospect that caused alarm among gun owners, particularly in the West, where target shooting on public land is a longtime tradition. Hunting season for deer and other game begins around Thanksgiving in many states.

huffingtonpost.com

November 23, 2011

Believe in your Miracle

by Kidjacked Editor

Jackie Carpenter describes herself as a businesswoman, volunteer and reluctant author because she never intended to become an author, nor expected to be a resource for people facing a crisis in life.

The Bridge tells the frightening chain of events that occurred after her son, the victim of copper thefts on his construction job sites, was guarding his property on the advice of a deputy. In the early morning hours of June 27, 2008, he attempted a citizen's arrest when his gun accidentally fired, wounding one of the alleged thieves. Hours later when the man died from the wound, the deputy recanted his advice and her son Jason was taken into custody and charged with felony murder and four other serious charges.

my.kidjacked.com

November 14, 2011