Bring Jaden home
The mission of CPS is to protect children from abuse and neglect, but too often we see the opposite happening. There are countless stories like Eathen's that remain unheard because they are buried under false statistics reported by CPS.
We demand transparency and accountability from Child Protective Services nationwide. We want a thorough investigation into cases where children were harmed or killed while under the care of foster parents assigned by CPS.
Please sign this petition to demand transparency and accountability from Child Protective Services across the United States. Demand body worn cameras by CPS workers interviewing children require workers to wear a body camera. They required to arrest criminals why should children be any less important
CPS takes children from their family’s and gives them to foster parents to beat rape and kill, below is the wall of shame. They claim to take them to protect them only to be Beaten raped and killed.
ANALYSISThe Government Spends 10 Times More on Foster Care and Adoption Than Reuniting Families The United States government incentivizes foster care placements and forced adoption over social support and reunification with birth families. It seems unreal, possibly even illegal, and not at all like something a responsible government would do.
Unfortunately, it’s very real, and the root cause of many of the problems in child welfare cases.In the United States, child welfare agencies are tasked with ensuring the health and safety of the nation’s children. Each agency receives a complex web of funding from federal, state, and local sources, leaving it accountable to a hodgepodge of authorities. Although these agencies are often referred to as “child protective services” and considered by many as a cohesive national program, state and local agencies are only linked by a loose set of federal guidelines that provide broad definitions for child maltreatment, along with the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA).
First enacted in 1996 under the Clinton administration, ASFA has undergone several rewrites, but its overarching purpose has remained steady: to ensure “timely permanency planning for children.” Part of the emphasis on “permanency” includes financial reimbursements for foster care programs, as well as adoption bounties, which are lump sums in the thousands paid to states for each child they successfully adopt out after a certain threshold.
This starts with the Federal Foster Care Program (Title IV-E of the Social Security Act), which functions as an open-ended entitlement grant. There is no upper limit to the amount of funding that can be provided for eligible foster children each year. States receive reimbursements ranging from 50 cents to approximately 76 cents for each dollar spent on daily child care and supervision, administrative costs, training, recruitment, and data collection.
Here’s the caveat these funds are an income eligibility program meaning they funds are only given to states for children that are poor or black and other minorities, which means they are not interested in children that come from money because they don’t get bonuses for taking poor or black children. However if they are running low on inventory(children) they are not above lying to the gov falsifying legal documents to get money for kids that normally wouldn’t qualify for the funding. They are embezzling billions of dollars from the us and your tax dollars and retirement is footing the bill, because the funds are paid from social security funds that you worked your entire life for. That’s why they say social security will be bankrupt before the millennials ever get a chance to collect their retirement. when it comes to programs that support family reunification, the budget slims. Title IV-B of the Social Security Act, which governs federal reunification funding, includes a capped entitlement component and a discretionary component. So, unlike foster care funding, these dollars come with a set of guidelines that are not being followed by the states the county workers are in fact lying about income of particular family makes saying that they're poor because the federal funds are assist with low income families CPS takes the children they don't spend any money on reunification and services for the poor family instead they keep the money. Rather than finding permanence within 22 months children are lingering in foster care for more than 6 years which was exactly what this law was supposed to prevent from happening. The children never get to go home they lose bonds and connections with their family when they turn 18 35% of inmates in prison where we're in foster care at some point the system is broken and needs to be fixed between the drug overdoses and the homelessness and the inmates in prison that makes up about 90% of those people are starting out in foster care at some point.
The result of this imbalanced funding structure? The federal government spends almost 10 times more on foster care and adoption than on programs geared toward reunification.
One of the less-known sources of federal funding for child welfare programs is the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. TANF is supposed to be a cash-assistance program servicing low-income families with children, In reality, TANF funds can be used to support many services designed to help “needy” children, including child protection agencies. The result is that many states use TANF funds to finance foster care, child welfare investigations, and adoption or guardianship payments.
Because child welfare program data are self reported, it can be difficult to track exactly how each dollar is spent, but Wexler was able to identify eight states using TANF to pay for adoption subsidies, 23 states funding CPS investigations, 27 states funding foster care, and three states diverting TANF money to fund residential treatment facilities for child welfare involved children.
Considering that three-quarters of substantiated child maltreatment cases are related to neglect, which is often the result of poverty, it seems exceedingly unjust that funds supposedly intended to offset the worst effects of poverty are instead being used to finance the separation of mostly poor families.
Under ASFA, states are — with few exceptions — required to file for the termination of parental rights when a child has been in foster care for 15 of the past 22 months. In an attempt to curtail the infamous foster care hopscotch, which leaves children whose parents have lost their rights bouncing from foster home to foster home, the government created adoption payment incentives.
Adoption bounties range from $4,000 to $12,000 per child per month. As Wexler explained, “the harder the system deems the child to place, the higher the bounty.”
But in order to begin collecting that money, a state must exceed the last year’s number of adopted children, thus incentivizing states to permanently re-home an ever-increasing number of children each year. As can be expected, the number of adoptions increased in the five years after the implementation of ASFA, while reunifications declined. The Bush administration’s Adoption and Promotion Act of 2003 further codified this adoption bounty system by allocating $43 million yearly to states that succeed in increasing the number of adoptions from foster care.
Many states contract with private agencies that oversee out-of-home placements and service referrals for child welfare involved children. Said Wexler, “that agency will probably be paid for each day that child remains in foster care … So the private agency has an incentive to convince itself that the child really, really can’t go home and has to stay with them for a long, long time.”
What does this look like on the ground? Painfully delayed referrals to support services such as parenting classes and addiction treatment, judges hesitant to find fault with the way agencies and providers handle cases, and private agencies eager to deem parents unfit for reunification.
There have been some recent moves at the federal level aimed toward shifting some of these financial imbalances. The Family First Act, signed into law in 2018, now allows federal reimbursements for mental health services, evidence-based substance use treatment, and in-home parenting support. Its purpose is to create similar incentives for helping families stay together.
Unfortunately, the act does not support many of the common needs that lead to family separation, such as housing or child care support. And because the programs it does support must meet stringent requirements in order to be eligible for reimbursement, foster care and adoption subsidies continue to exceed reunification programs by the hundreds of millions.RELATEDFEATUREState Laws Punish Pregnant People Just For Seeking Drug TreatmentFIRST PERSONwas relatively lucky because she had the knowledge and resources to successfully appeal this decision, but many mothers who face similar circumstances are stuck living with the consequences of child welfare involvement simply for seeking treatment.
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The result? A crackdown on parents — especially mothers — who use drugs, with a hard target centered on those with a past or present addiction to opioids. State laws vary, but at least 23 states and the District of Columbia articulate that substance use during pregnancy is child abuse, and virtually every state in the U.S. will open an investigation (at the very least) into a person who tests positive for substances during or shortly after pregnancy.
According to research compiled by the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy, the number of infants entering the foster care system rose by nearly 10,000between 2011 and 2017, and at least half of those infant removals were due to parental substance use, often during pregnancy.
Not only can these types of punitive measures make pregnant people who use substances wary about seeking medical care, but applying personhood rights to the unborn is a dangerous precedent that criminalizes people for events outside of their control; for example, earlier this year in Alabama, Marshae Jones faced criminal charges for having a miscarriage after she was shot.
Women’s rights advocates continue to fight laws that pursue the rights of fetuses before those of the people who carry them, and have seen some wins — for example, the charges against Jones were ultimately dropped, and last year the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed a ruling against a mother who use opioids and marijuana while pregnant, stating that fetuses were not covered in their child maltreatment laws — but it remains an uphill battle around the nation.
At the same time, abortion rights are under fire. Fueled by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, many conservative states are implementing laws that make abortions virtually impossible to access legally and safely. For example, Alabama’s governor recently signed into law a bill that holds doctors criminally liable, with a penalty of up to 99 years in prison, for performing abortions that are not medically necessary and also bans abortions at all points of pregnancy, even in cases of rape and incest. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio also passed recent legislation banning abortions after six to eight weeks respectively, which is before many people even realize they are pregnant. Because habitual drug use can interrupt or alter menstruation, it can be even more difficult for those experiencing addiction to catch a pregnancy early enough to terminate it in one these states.
The concurrent rise of anti-abortion laws and punitive prenatal substance-use laws leaves people who become pregnant while having a substance use disorder — whether active or in remission — trapped in a dangerous situation that is often overlooked due to the stigma attached to substance use during pregnancy.
“Among people with substance use disorders, there’s no one more stigmatized than pregnant women,” said Stephen Patrick, a neonatologist and an associate professor of pediatrics and health policy at Vanderbilt University. He added that this pervasive stigma leads some people with substance use disorders to fear and distrust the medical community, even to the point of avoiding treatment.
Unfortunately, that distrust is often warranted. “Pediatricians often don’t know what they are required to do, and often states have a hard time interpreting what the federal government wants them to do,” Patrick explained. At the federal level, child welfare guidelines are vague and general, leaving states with broad discretion when it comes to defining child maltreatment and the subsequent responses. This means that when state or county authorities are misinformed about the reality of substance use and parenthood, that bad information can easily become codified into the system. Worse, it allows those policymakers determined to give the unborn personhood rights a means for policing the behaviors of pregnant people. “The end result is a system that in many cases over intervenes in some families that may be in recovery, and in other cases may not intervene when it needs to,” Patrick said.
Mandy’s story is just one example of the real-world impact of this stigma. My own life is yet another: I gave birth in 2014 while prescribed methadone. My daughter was hospitalized for neonatal abstinence syndrome, which is a common side-effect of appropriate methadone usage. She had no other health problems and, five years later, remains a healthy and developmentally normal child.
Nonetheless, a child welfare case was opened against me in the state of Florida. At the time, the case was deemed unsubstantiated — but four years later, a call by my mother-in-law to the Florida state child abuse hotline triggered another investigation. This time, the investigator made no attempt to speak with me before making her decision. She simply looked at my previous records of having been prescribed methadone while pregnant and filed to have my two daughters removed from my care. More than a year later, I am still fighting to get them back.
I love my daughters, and I have no regrets when it comes to birthing them — but I remember learning I was pregnant with my youngest less than a year after her elder sister was born. I was on a low dose of buprenorphine after having tapered from the methadone I began taking during my previous pregnancy. I had just finished grad school, and before entering treatment had been using heroin intravenously for nearly five years. My husband and I, both in recovery, were broke and sharing a mobile home with his parents in South Florida.
I became pregnant after being unable to access a timely refill on my birth control. Abortions in Florida are not covered by Medicaid. I didn’t feel ready for another child, but I had no way to finance an abortion. I don’t know that I would have decided to get one if I could have; that’s something I will never know, because it was a choice I simply did not have. Now, the same state that gave me no other options is withholding my children from me for having sought treatment for a medical condition.
No woman should feel compelled to terminate a pregnancy because she has a substance use disorder—but when jurisdictions withhold that choice, they force people who use drugs to suffer harsh punishments simply for becoming pregnant. Sometimes, that even includes jail time.
“In 2006, the Alabama legislature passed the chemical endangerment of a child law, and even though the legislation said this has nothing to do with pregnancy and drug use — it has to do with punishing adults who take children to dangerous places like meth labs — it was used as a basis for arresting pregnant women using any controlled substance, even if prescribed,” explained Lynn Paltrow, the executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. This has led to the arrest or child welfare prosecution of thousands of women since it was implemented; in 2015, ProPublica identified 1,800 affected mothers. The law is still being used.
Both anti-choice activists and those who push for criminal or civil prosecution of pregnant people who use substances claim to be protecting children. But the reality is one of oppression and harm. “It is an anti-woman policy and an anti-child policy,” says Richard Wexler, the executive director of the National Coalition for Child Welfare Reform, of child welfare policies aimed toward substance use. “Any time we take a swing at so-called ‘bad mothers,’ it falls to the children.”
You see this in cases like mine; my judge doesn’t see my daughters crying every time I leave our once weekly supervised visit, nor does she have to answer their questions about why they can’t come home, but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening. You see this also in cases like that of Keri, a mother who I interviewed for a story I wrote for Filter Mag, who bought buprenorphine on the street and self-detoxed before giving birth to avoid child welfare intervention. A 2017 paper by Amnesty International reports that doctors across the nation are seeing substance-addicted people avoid timely prenatal care out of fear of prosecution, harming the very infants these laws claim to protect.
Across the country, harm reduction efforts are gaining traction, and the government is slowly increasing access to evidence-based medical care. But even while the general perceptions and treatment of people with addictions are advancing, pregnant people who use drugs continue to be stigmatized and punished.
Said Paltrow, “There’s no question that prosecutors and others have used the stigma and horrific medical info about the impact of controlled substances on pregnancy to establish in the law separate rights for fetuses, and anti-abortion principles that treat pregnant women like criminals.”
Wisconsin Wall of shameThis is Wisconsins Wall of shame, The top picture is Wi gov Tony Evers who’s the head of the state and has had several complaints regarding children that have not been abused and place with foster family’s that are paid abusing your children my 7 yr old granddaughter was never abused and they have no evidance or complaint to counter that however with in 30 days of being removed she can now say she’s been sexually assaulted in her foster home when she should of never been in Fostercare because their were qualified family that wanted her. Wi law requires such incidents be reported to the state and it was not. Only one child’s sexual assault that occurred in manitowoc county and she was 16
The pictures below him are foster parents that were given a state Fostercare license to house foster children to keep them safe
i plan to do this with every state so anyone google foster parents charged in your state send me the info as well as a picture of the gov.
People are being paid with title 4E federal funds to abuse, beat and kill the children cps say they are protecting. Tomorrows update will include a story of a man that spent two decade sexually abuse foster children during which time he collected over a million dollars of tax payers money.
This current article talks about the global epidemic regarding child abuse. They don’t say they are foster parent they say it their job so they can work from home. Paying foster parents to beat rape and kill the children they are supposed to protect, for which 9 times out of 10 were never abused until they were placed in foster care. CPS gets away with it because they have the privilege of immunity and all this is confidential so the public can’t hold them accountable…Then there are times knowing a child has said they were abused they leave them in the home. I was a foster parent the child accused me of abuse and they still would have let her stay with me because they had no where for her to go. I said she can sleep at the hospital if she claims abuse she should be at a hospital. I’m not taking her.
Sexual Abuse: An Epidemic in Foster Care System
Children who have unstable homes are often placed in foster homes. This placement may occur because the home life is volatile. Often, foster care is treated as a temporary solution while the parent or parents in the home work on problems to later become reunited with their children. However, children may be raped, molested or sexually abused in these settings.Prevalence of the ProblemApproximately 530,000 children in the United States live in foster care at any given time. Some of these children are placed in foster care because they have been sexually abused, abused in other ways or neglected. Unfortunately, many of these children are again abused in the foster care setting.
A study by John Hopkins University found that children who are in foster care are four times more likely to be sexually abused than other children not in this setting. Additionally, children who are in group homes are 28 times more likely to be abused than children not living in these homes.
Foster care agencies are often required to follow strict protocol regarding how they vet foster parents and conduct extensive background checks. However, these procedures may not always be followed, or a foster parent may develop ways to get around them. In some cases, a foster care agency may be held liable for harm that befalls the child, such as if the foster care agency was negligent in the child’s placement. However, sometimes foster care agencies are state governmental programs, which may have immunity from such lawsuits. It is important to contact an experienced lawyer to discuss the possibility of pursuing a claim against a negligent foster care
The first picture is of Amber the first transgender to be executed she grew up in a foster home to be abused then adopted to be abused by her adoptive parents made to eat feces makes you wonder how much of her abuse contributed to the crime that put her on death row. This is what that government is turning the children into the adults of tomorrow, but they know so much more about how to raise a well rounded job. Their doing a bang up job.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=34HAG2aALdU
https://www.wbay.com/content/news/De-Pere-woman-charged-with-mental-and-physical-abuse-of-adopted-kids-476313053.html
https://www.wisn.com/amp/article/former-foster-parent-accused-of-sexual-abuse-of-teen-in-his-care/13820669 East Troy man who worked as a foster parent faces two felony charges of first-degree sexual assault of a child after an investigation of incidents in Twin Lakes between Sept. 1, 2018, and Jan. 17, 2019.Clifford L. Rohadfox remains in custody in the Kenosha County Jail on a $30,000 cash bond imposed Jan. 11 by Kenosha County Circuit Court Commissioner Larry Keating.Clifford Rohadfox booking photo Each of the felonies, one against a child younger than 13 and the other against a child younger than 12, carries a possible prison term of 40 years, plus 20 years extended supervision
https://www.wbay.com/content/news/De-Pere-woman-charged-with-mental-and-physical-abuse-of-adopted-kids-476313053.html
https://www.wisn.com/amp/article/former-foster-parent-accused-of-sexual-abuse-of-teen-in-his-care/13820669
Lock them up. This arrest is in Wausau Wisconsin, but ask Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers Why no one knew or the public were never informed of this. Gov Tony Evers only ever spoke of what happened to 7 yr old Ethen Huschultz. The so called professionals are allowed to take our children to keep them safe and instead kill them. Wake up America no one is immune. They take from doctors lawyers etc…Also ask the Gov in your state how they can possibly know the data of what percentage is actually abused or killed in out of home care when the states are not reporting like required. My 7 yr old granddaughter was sexually assaulted within 30 days of being placed in foster care and was never reported to the state.
Dear President Joe Biden:
Dear Governor Tony Evers (D WI)Dear Sen. Ronald Johnson (R WI):Dear Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D WI):Dear Rep. Glenn Grothman (WI-6):
Dear Representative Nancy Palosi (D California)
Families are being abused by State CPS and Family Courts through out the United States of America, this is a major issue that needs to be addressed, Families that have had their civil rights violated through family court proceedings and the fact that all due process and constitutional rights are violated and manipulated by family court judges, District Attorneys, and Commissioners of corporate counsel takes an oath to uphold the lie than goes to court and looks the judge in her face and lied to her and lawyer regulations turns a blind eye.
this isn’t about the best interest of the child it’s in the best interest of their wallets./social services departments as well as CPS workers, and court appointed attorneys that are not working for the clients but have helped incriminate parents. Also of extreme interest, is obtaining names/phone/location of CPS workers who are falsifying or have falsified documents in court and who have lied in a court setting. The people of New York State and the People of the United States of America demand a full investigation of all departments, and the termination of department until further the people also wish to sue for government entrapment as well as a suit brought against the case workers, family court judges, and district lawyers. The People through discovery have found:
1. The imbalance of funding is creating corruption
2. Corruption has filtered through all manner of government and related agencies
3. Judicial decisions violate the public trust
4. Laws are created and passed that give parens patriae unlimited power not provided by the Constitution
5. The pendulum has swung to create a monopoly strategy of funding extracted from dwindling Social Services that have been set up to help families in need is devastating families across America
6. Children's lives are at stake while in the care of government funded agencies, such as rape, sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect, mental abuse, and statistics show our children are being killed while in government placements out side of the parental home/or close relatives
7. That the states are not following guidelines placing children with relatives but are screening them out using different criteria with foster families, or falsifying documents to entrap parents and not keeping the children in the home with parents but removing the children without due process or any true purpose other then to incriminate parents/family members and to insure family is unfit
8. That pockets of tyranny are going unchecked without recourse
9. Congress local government/ civil and family courts is not responsive to The People
10. That The People have been turned away from civil courts, and from family courts higher court of appeals, only to remain battered and bruised by the tyranny of these local government funded courts as the judges, case workers/commissioners and district attorneys mock the outraged parents and children of which they so willingly strip of their civil rights and liberties
The People are declaring a public health crisis and human rights violation as well as their Civil rights are being stripped and taken from them and their families, as a result of these above atrocities and also In addition, The People find the Parens Patriae to be more than a doctrine but a specialized position created by the government for the government that violates Article 1 Sec 9, 10: No title of nobility or honors shall be granted by the United States. The title extends to the courts, Childrens Administration and public education violating Amendment 14 depriving persons of life, liberty and property without due process. The position applies as a collective.
The People are ordering an investigation of the departments as well as Family courts through out the United States of America and most important in New York State the people of the United States ask that all family court files,case files, court tapes, and videos be put into the investigation, as well as there be a federal lockdown on all CPS and family courts so that no tampering of documents can be done by such agencies, the fact is family court documents will show the fact that they are mishandled and manipulated by these agencies to insure incriminating charges are inevitable and due process is not being carried out, civil rights are violated, all human rights are violated and the United States Constitution is not on the agenda of these agencies. And the people of the United States of America are being abused by these powers.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Kimberly Howell2000 Johnston Dr #25Manitowoc, WI 54220Email: kahowell29@gmail.com
The Government is giving federal funds to the states called Title 4E Federal Funding to adopt out children to their foster parents and then they give the adoptive foster parent a check until the child turns 21. What kind of love or care do you think the child is gonna receive if they have to pay them to adopt them.
This is what’s happening in every state in the country, but because Wisconsin calls these cases confidential there’s no checks and balances and there is no way to hold the state or cps accountable. I’m sure there are other states hiding behind Confidentiality. So I want the federal gov to make it a requirement to receive federal funds their courts are required to have full transparency. Or no federal funds. I also want the federal gov to give a contact person we can report it to if this is not being followed or states are abusing the funds. If the parents are abusing their children it should be public, so no one else puts their child in that persons hands. However what happens when cps are the abusers. A 7 yr being sexually assaulted with in 30 days of being removed. It’s never reported to the states like required. Keeping the siblings separated from each other with no contact, cps lying to the court to hide one child and seal her address, I had to hire a private investigator to locate her. Stephanie Willis told the judge R.G wanted his address sealed for fear of imminent danger, which was a lie R.G wrote a letter to the court he never asked his address be sealed and the judge ignored.
what about the emotional trauma to children not able to see any family, not just the one accused of abuse but none of their family. They are being told their family’s don’t want them any more so they are being put up for adoption. They know their sister is living with a grandfather but they are being placed for adoption.
courts file full of lies them self including the Wi appellate courts only go by transcripts what good is that if the corrupt judges go off record every-time they break the law. Or when you file an appeal they stick on a shelf for 2 yrs then issue an answer stating the case is being dismissed because it moot to much time has lapsed. They had no problem taking my 94.00 dollar filing fee and the county received a 60 day extension to submit their brief, further corruption. Peter Conrad Corporate Counselused that 60 day extension to stall the appeal then used that argument to much time has lapsed and it should be thrown out.
saying things happened and all three children had the same story which is a lie not one child’s story was the same and they would know that if they actually gave a damn to listen to the interviews. I will be calling everyone out by name failing these children and creating a wall of shame. So if you have someone you feel should be on the list send me a dm
"I'm writing this because this is something I care about deeply and it won't happen without the support of people like you. Starting a petition isn't something I would normally do, but I was moved to do so because (it’s amazing that criminal cases or any other cases such as evictions all ok for those not protecting child) yet when children are directly involved it’s all secret) children’s cases should be the foremost open to the public. Also interviewing a disabled person with no representative or support staff that is actually trained to understand the child’s deficit. Body cameras should be worn by all social workers and police that are going to be working with children, they could be molesting them. Strangers could be molesting your child and no one would know. I know I'm not alone and together we can make this change happen. Please sign and share! Currently there’s a big problem with family court and CPS. corruption. I believe if the courts were not held in secret and there were no confidentiality Judges and Guardian ad litems would follow the laws.
currently they deny parents of any kind of due process and they get away with it, because there’s no one to witness them violating your rights. They use the excuse it’s to protect the children. However when they falsified 5 felonies of child abuse against me they released my name, mug shot and a picture of my residence were they protecting the children then. Absolutely not any one that knew me or the place I was living knew what children were involved. They want to keep juvenile and chips cases to protect them from being held accountable.
please sign this petition to send a strong message to gov Tony Evers as well as the rest of the nation. We want our courts open to the public and live streamed on you tube like every other state does. This affects anyone in all 50 states that have children or any case requiring a guardian ad litem.
As long as family courts are kept confidential the courts can continue to rip family’s apart with out ever giving the parents the right to be heard.
my 5 grandchildren were illegally snatched by cps in Dec 2019 I was never given a trial, I was never allowed to testify, call witnesses and cps did none of that as well. They made a bunch of false accusations without ever proving one allegation. They’re traumatizing children for the sole purpose to traffic our children and adopt them out to their foster parents. DON’T FORGET THE PHRASE TITLE 4E Federal Funding. The more children they adopt out the more money they make.