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The Children's Rights Project has initiated a number of successful civil suits against foster care and child welfare systems. One such landmark suit was brought against the Illinois foster care system. Attorney Benjamin Wolf instituted the legal action after concluding that the states foster care system functioned as "a laboratory experiment to produce the sexual abuse of children."[12] Yet by many accounts, the sexual abuse of children in the state's care has increased along with the increase in placements, successful lawsuits notwithstanding. Even Patrick Murphy, the outspoken Cook County Public Guardian, admits that sexual abuse of children in the care of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has probably increased.
According to an Associated Press investigation, in nearly half the states, cases take years to come to completion as agencies repeatedly fail to investigate abuse reports in a timely fashion, find permanent homes for children, or even keep track of those children under their care and custody. For various reasons, ranging from failure to provide adequate supervision and oversight of workers, to failure to provide safe child care facilities, 22 states and the District of Columbia have been ruled inadequate by the courts and now operate under some form of judicial supervision
A 1986 survey conducted by the National Foster Care Education Project found that foster children were 10 times more likely to be abused than children among the general population. A follow-up study in 1990 by the same group produced similar results. The American Civil Liberties Union's Children's Rights Project similarly estimates that a child in the care of the state is ten times more likely to be abused than one in the care of his parents.[/ex]
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How many of the 6 million children being abused that was reported by Child Help were children needlessly placed in foster care, I wonder? Of course, Child Help couldn't be bothered to make that distinction, could they?
Let's return to A Critical Look At The Foster Care System: How Widespread a Problem?
In a legal action brought by the Children's Rights Project against the District of Columbia child welfare system, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that:
"because of the appalling manner in which the system is managed, children remain subject to continuing abuse and neglect at the hands of heartless parents and guardians, even after the DHS has received reports of their predicaments. The court also found that youngsters who have been taken into the custody of the District's foster-care system languish in inappropriate placements, with scarce hope of returning to their families or being adopted."
The Court also found that the agency entrusted with the care of children "has consistently evaded numerous responsibilities placed on it by local and federal statutes." Among the deficiencies cited was "failure to provide services to families to prevent the placement of children in foster care.
Frustrated by the lack of progress after years of litigation, child advocates succeeded in placing the District of Columbia child welfare system into full receivership in 1995, making it the first such system in the nation to come under the direct control of the Court.
But still there's more:
In a Pennsylvania case, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit wrote in a 1994 decision: "It is a matter of common knowledge (and it is not disputed here) that in recent years the system run by DHS and overseen by DPW has repeatedly failed to fulfill its mandates, and unfortunately has often jeopardized the welfare of the children in its care."
The original complaint, filed by the Children's Rights Project on April 4, 1990, alleged that systemic deficiencies prevent the Pennsylvania department from performing needed services, and that it consistently violates the due process rights of both parents and children:
"Specifically, plaintiffs claim that these amendments confer the right not to be deprived of a family relationship; the right not to be harmed while in state custody; the right to placement in the least restrictive, most appropriate placement; the right to medical and psychiatric treatment; the right to care consistent with competent professional judgment; and the right not to be deprived of liberty or property interests without due process of law."
Oh but wait, there's much much more.
One of the plaintiffs in the Pennsylvania suit was "Tara M." on whose behalf the ACLU charged the city of Philadelphia with neglect. Human Services Commissioner Joan Reeves guaranteed the young girl an adoptive home with specially trained parents.
In August of 1996, Tara M. would make the headlines once again, as her new foster parents were sentenced for "one of the most appalling cases of child abuse" Common Pleas Court Judge Carolyn E. Temin said she had ever heard.
Nine-year-old Tara has had three skin grafts and wears a protective stocking in recovery from burns over more than half her body. Police said the foster parents punished the girl by stripping her, forcing her into the bathtub and dousing her with buckets of scalding water. This was the very best of care the city could provide for Tara, a girl who had already endured years of physical and sexual abuse in the several foster homes into which she had been placed over the years.
The Children's Rights Project has also been involved in suits against child welfare systems in the states of Connecticut, Kansas, Louisiana and New Mexico, and the cities of Kansas City, Missouri; Louisville, Milwaukee, and New York City.[23] Says Children's Rights Project attorney Marcia Robinson Lowry: "There are a lot of injuries, a lot of abuse. The most significant thing is the psychological death of so many of these kids. Kids are being destroyed every day, destroyed by a government-funded system set out to help them."
In California, as of 1989 Los Angeles County alone had paid $18 million in settlements to children who had been abused while in its custody. One such case involved a nine-year-old boy who weighed only 28 lbs., and who could hardly speak after the suicides of his parents. County social workers failed to visit him in his foster home for four months. During that time, he was beaten, sodomized, burned on his genitals and nearly drowned by his foster parents. He became a spastic paraplegic. By 1990 the state was threatening to take over Los Angeles County's child welfare system
The California-based Little Hoover Commission, in examining the functioning of the foster care system determined: "That children can come to harm--and even die--while supposedly under the protection of foster care is not in dispute." Some cases cited by the Commission included:
A foster mother arrested in Los Angeles on charges of beating to death her 23-month-old foster son, allegedly over toilet training problems.
A Los Angeles woman arrested for the attempted murder of a 19-month-old foster child who she said fell from a jungle gym. Doctors believed the severe head injuries, which may result in blindness, could only have come from abuse.
A Sacramento woman who was injured in a car accident who voluntarily placed her daughter in a foster care facility. During a tantrum by the child, an employee of the facility wrapped her in a blanket and squatted on her. She was later discovered dead.
Children whose families are investigated for abuse or neglect are likely to do better in life if they stay with their families than if they go into foster care, according to a pioneering study...
Doyle's study, however, provides "the first viable, empirical evidence" of the benefits of keeping kids with their families, says Gary Stangler, executive director of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, a foundation for foster teens. Stangler says it looked at kids over a longer period of time than had other studies.
"It confirms what experience and observation tell us: Kids who can remain in their homes do better than in foster care," says Stangler. He says some kids, for their own safety, need to be removed from their families, but in marginal cases of abuse, more should be done to keep them together.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
Genocide might be a good idea here.
You first please.
Otherwise, you are talking hot air.
It's easy to talk about the mass murder of others and what "good" it may bring. Until it's you in the cross hairs.
If you really believe that, you first.
If you ever post again I will take it as an admission that you were wrong, and that life is better than death.
Genocide might be a good idea? You folks are scaring the crap out of me!!!
That's completely psychopathic...to even consider it.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
The only reason you people want to get other's out of the way is so you can have more of the pie to yourself. It's really selfish, you need to learn to share Earth with your fellow humans.
If you really believed this crap, you would do your part, and knock yourself off right now.
The reason you don't suicide is because you don't believe in yourself dying, no, you consider yourself more important and superior to other humans. You want the "inferiors" to be eradicated.
So you can have their land, their food, their wealth.
Their kids are in your way of you having more stuff.
The levels of selfishness and conceit never cease to amaze me.
You know that's why the Holocaust happened? Lebensraum? Living space??
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
Originally posted by muzzleflash
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
Genocide might be a good idea here.
You first please.
Otherwise, you are talking hot air.
It's easy to talk about the mass murder of others and what "good" it may bring. Until it's you in the cross hairs.
If you really believe that, you first.
If you ever post again I will take it as an admission that you were wrong, and that life is better than death.
Genocide might be a good idea? You folks are scaring the crap out of me!!!
That's completely psychopathic...to even consider it.
And so I see you completely failed to seriously consider the consequences of your actions by letting these people continue to have children and cause needless harm and suffering to billions ahead of them.
So you won't cut off their heads.. what will you agree to, to stop the madness? Will it be effective? Lets hear your best permanent solution. So, you wanna be all squeamish and moral but I ask you again.. did you count the cost? Unless you can stop the problem in a real permanent way, it's just going to get worse. This is war. People just don't see it that way so they ignore it and hope the problem goes away. If not genocide then what.. you gonna enforce castration to millions of people - it aint gonna happen. Yes, I said It MIGHT be a good idea. It may also be a last ditch effort when all else fails. Tell me, how will you STOP the problem? You wanna talk smack or real solutions here?
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Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
And so I see you completely failed to seriously consider the consequences of your actions by letting these people continue to have children and cause needless harm and suffering to billions ahead of them.
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Originally posted by johnm75
reply to post by tothetenthpower
Disagree completely. As a previous poster said why should I be forced to pay for someone elses mistake ( most cases mistakes).
Originally posted by Unity_99
If you only understood WHY this is going on. Greed aside, though it is the main motivating force, WHY they are workign so hard to depopulate, and expect to do a big one. Many of the annanuki mismanagers do not want to do this, for they are greedy and like the current false paradigm slave system just fine.
But Marduk's group is contracted to return and they want space, so alot of us have to go.
And I'm pretty sure some people on here know that but won't say.edit on 17-6-2012 by Unity_99 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Idonthaveabeard
Then if you want kids later in life you apply for a license to have your castration reversed. To have a baby (weather rich, poor, black, white or whatever) you must prove your home is a stable loving environment that has the means to support, love and raise a child.