Teen Screen - A Hard Pill To Swallow!

PETITION AGAINST FORCED PSYCHIATRY ON OUR TEENS!!!

Our children are not lab rats!

Is Psychiatry Really The Answer For Our Children? GREAT LINKS FOR PARENTS

Source: http://ablechild.org (A WONDERFUL SITE)

• www.adhdfraud.com. Essays, articles and other information pertaining to the fraud of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) -- Compiled by Dr. Fred Baughman.
• http://www.adhd-report.com. The Parental Intelligence Report on 'ADHD' by Bob Collier.www.addvideo.org. New Web site features Dr. Fred Baughman on video exposing the national experts on the ADHD fraud. Another video shows the link between psychiatric drugs and school violence.

www.ablechild.org. 'Parents for Label and Drug Free Education' consists of a growing number of parents outraged over the pervaive and ever-growing drugging of our children. Begun by parent activists Sheila Matthews, Patty Weathers, Larry Smith and Vicky Dunkle, this website provides parents with the latest and more informative data surrounding "ADHD" and the drugs used to "treat" it.

www.fightforkids.com. The purpose of this Web site is to educate parents worldwide on the facts about today's widespread practice of labeling children mentally ill and drugging them with heavy, mind-altering, psychiatric drugs. æArmed in this way, loving parents will be able to prevail in the face of the enormous "drug children now" pressures so entrenched in society today. æProtected in this way, our children will be spared the totally unnecessary misery of a drug-hazed youth, succeeded by the risk of a drug-consumed adulthood.

www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html Ken Kramer's site documents the whole truth about Teen Screen, and connects the dots.

www.ritalindeath.com. Lawrence Smith developed this site as a response to the death of his fourteen-Year-old Son Matthew, who died on March 21, 2000. The cause was determined to be due to heart failure from the long- term ( age 7-14 ) use ofæRitalin. The purpose of this site is to prevent more deaths of our children from these dangerous drugs.

www.caer.com. Psychologist Lawrence Weathers gives his perspective on ADHD and profiles his method of helping called "computer assisted emotional recovery."

http://www.worldtalkradio.com/archives.asp?sid=97.The truth about ADHD and psychiatric drugs for children: Radio series archived on Annie Armen Live; includes John Breeding, PhD, Fred Baughman, MD, Able Child founders Patty Weathers, Sheila Matthews, and activist parents like Sheila Dunkle and Lawrence Smith whose children have died from the effects of psychiatric drugs. Great information and powerful true stories.
http://www.aTLC.org/Affiliates. Wildest Colts is an Affiliate of the Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children.

http://www.byronchild.com. Kali Shapiro's new magazine is a winner. ByronChild supports the task of conscious parenting through considering the needs of children and parents within a world that is rapidly changing.

The Aware Parenting Institute

http://www.naomialdort.com. Supporting Authentic Parent-Child Relationships

http://www.naturalchild.org. Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.

Parents Leadership Institute www.parentleaders.org The Parents Leadership Institute was founded by Patty Wipfler, international Re-evaluation Counseling reference person for parents, and features her work. The Institute assists parents who are eager to address the difficulties presented by parenting in today's world.æ They focus on listening as a cornerstone skill that develops parents' ability to connect with their children and solve problems within the family. Their goal is to empower parents and allies of children to care effectively for themselves and for young people of all ages, and to train leaders who will work for excellent community and national policy regarding parents and children. Very highly recommended.

www.rc.org. I recommend to all the theory and practices of the grassroots Re-Evaluation Counseling Community. Includes great resources for parents.

www.nhen.org. The National Home Education Network site provides encouraging information and support for the grassroots work of state and local homeschooling groups and individuals.

www.windhorseassociates.org. Windhorse Associates is a non-profit treatment and education organization with a whole person approach to recovery from extreme states of mind. Our services are individually tailored in close communication with each client and family.

www.transtherapy.org. Transtherapy is a reform movement in psychotherapy and in the mental helping professions. It is an association of practitioners who are critical of the trends of commercialism, medicalization, bureaucratization an idolization in this field.

Anti-Psychiatry Movement

Peter Breggin, M.D. and the Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology

Citizen's Commission on Human Rights Dendron, David Oaks publisher, PO Box 11284, Eugene OR, 97440. (503) 341-0100. The best newspaper available on mental health system oppression. David is also the contact point for Support Coalition International, an umbrella group of organizations devoted to the work of mental health liberation. Check out their web site at www.efn.org/~dendron.

www.drugawareness.org. Dr. Ann Tracy leads the International Coalition for Drug Awareness. Their Web site is dedicated to educating people regarding the potential harmful and life threatening short- and long-term effects of psychiatric drugs. Her specility, as reflected in her book Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? is the so-called SSRI's.

www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Researchbytopic.htm. Jim Gottstein's Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, Scientific Research by Topic.

Mental Health Field Articles

Petition For Children's Rights Against Stigma And Psychiatric Drug Abuse

Petition For Children's Rights Against Stigma And Psychiatric Drug Abuse
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To: President George Bush

Whereas:
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted and proclaimed on December 10, 1948, states in Article 5,

"no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment";

Whereas:
The above right is also affirmed under Article 37 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and under Article 33 of that Convention, which states that

children have the right to protection from the "illicit use of psychotropic substances";

Whereas:
Medical research indicates considerable controversy and diverse opinion about the validity of childhood behavioral or learning "disorders" such as but not limited to, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and which are not scientifically substantiated;

Whereas:
In the United States, up to six million children have been administered potentially addictive, psychotropic stimulants and other drugs because of these psychiatric "disorders";

Whereas:
Such psychotropic stimulants have the same abuse liability as cocaine, and are considered more potent than cocaine; and that such drugs can cause other adverse reactions, including:

psychosis, agitation, bizarre dreams, loss of appetite, confusion, and depersonalization, and do not improve academic performance;

Whereas:
Parents and children are being denied adequate information about the lack of science behind childhood psychiatric "disorders," and the risks associated with drugs prescribed for them;

Whereas:
Parents and children are being denied information about alternatives to drug treatment for classroom or behavioral problems, such as nutritional, creative and educational solutions and, thereby are being denied the right to "informed consent";

Be it known that
We, the undersigned, sincerely request that the government implement legal safeguards to prevent children from being stigmatized as "mentally disordered," especially through "Special Education," or through the use of psychological questionnaires and tests in the class room, and to protect their inalienable right to be educated drug-free.

Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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You Know You're A Corrupt Judge When...

• YOU PUT 97,000 CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE IN CALIFORNIA, AND MORE THAN HALF SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN TAKEN IN THE FIRST PLACE.
• YOU KEEP KIDS IN FOSTER CARE TO ENDURE STARVATION, SEX, ABUSE, DEATH, RAPE, AND VIOLENCE.
• YOU STRIP NON-ABUSIVE PARENTS OF THEIR PARENTAL RIGHTS IN ORDER TO FILL QUOTAS AND REAP FEDERAL INCENTIVES!
• YOU RUBBER-STAMP EVERY CPS REQUEST TO KEEP A CHILD IN FOSTER CARE, GROUP HOMES AND EVENTUALLY PUT UP FOR ADOPTION.
• YOU MADE A RULING THAT A PARENT IS INNOCENT AND NON-ABUSIVE AND KEEP THEIR CHILD IN FOSTER CARE ANYWAY.
• YOU HOLD ILLEGAL HEARINGS, NOT GIVING PARENTS THEIR DUE PROCESS RIGHTS,CAUSING THEM TO LOSE THEIR CHILDREN.
• YOU IGNORE ALL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN.
• YOU, COUNTY COUNSEL, FOSTER AND GROUP HOMES, COURT APPOINTED ATTORNEYS, AND THERAPISTS ARE ALL IN BED TOGETHER.
• YOU SENTENCE EVERYONE TO THERAPY AND ANGER MANAGEMENT, WHEN YOU AND CPS SOCIAL WORKERS COULD USE IT THE MOST!
• YOU CONSPIRE TO KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM THEIR NON-ABUSIVE INNOCENT PARENTS FOR THE MAXIMUM TIME, NEVER EVEN CONSIDERING REUNIFICATION.
• YOU HIDE BEHIND CPS CORRUPTION, FRAUD, MALICE, AND LIES, PRETENDING IT’S IN A CHILDS BEST INTEREST!
• YOU LET EVERY CASE YOU HAVE GO BEYOND THE FEDERAL MANDATED TIMELINES FOR COMPLETION.
• YOU LET CPS DELIVER CASE PLANS WELL AFTER THE 30 DAY DEADLINE, AND PRETEND IT IS LEGAL & ETHICAL.
• YOU CONTINUALLY LET CPS PLACE PARENTS ON THE CHILD ABUSE CENTRAL INDEX (33,000 A YEAR IN CALIFORNIA) WITHOUT BEING CHARGED, STANDING TRIAL, OR BEING CONVICTED OF ABUSE.
• YOU LAUNDER MONEY THROUGH A SLUSH FUND FOR YOUR OWN SPECIAL INTERESTS.
• YOU LET CPS ABDUCT CHILDREN WITHOUT A WARRANT, WITH NO THREAT OF ABUSE OR IMMINENT DANGER!
• YOU PURPOSLY WILL NOT LET A PARENT TALK IN COURT FOR OVER A YEAR, WHILE THEIR CHILDREN LINGER IN FOSTER CARE, BEING ABUSED WITH DRUGS, SEX, RAPE, STARVATION VIOLENCE AND EVEN DEATH.
• YOU LET HEARSAY ALLEGATIONS, FALSIFIED RECORDS AND TAINTED TESTIMONY STAND AS FACT!
• YOU ENCOURAGE CPS TO ALLOW CHILDREN TO BE DRUGGED, BRIBED, COERCED, FORCED AND BRAINWASHED TO MAKE FALSE STATEMENTS OF ABUSE ABOUT THEIR PARENTS, USING CPS RUN CAC CENTERS AND STATE FUNDED THERAPISTS.
  
• YOU ALLOW CPS TO RECOMMEND THERAPISTS, ATTORNEYS, AND DOCTORS THAT WORK FOR THEIR OWN INTERESTS, AND PRETEND IT’S IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD.
• YOU WILL NOT ALLOW A PARENT TO PRESENT EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY THAT WOULD PROVE THEY ARE INNOCENT OF ALL CHARGES AGAINST THEM!
• YOU ALLOW A FOSTER CHILD TO REMAIN IN A FOSTER HOME WITH PROVEN, DOCUMENTED CASES OF NUMEROUS LICENSE VIOLATIONS, AND SUBSTIANTED ABUSE CHARGES.
  

What it FEELS LIKE to be Falsely Accused!

Source: Courtesy of AFRA

When your turn comes to answer a Child Protective Service Social Worker's allegations, the very first thing you notice is her hostile attitude and adversative behavior. Since most of us have learned CIVILITY and Social Skills to deal with aggressors, we try to find out why this person is so ticked at us so we can "make peace".

We explain the truth to her, but she doesn't care about the truth. We quickly learn this antagonist is implacable, callous, hard-hearted, merciless, and incapable of reason. Her mind was already made up and she is going to drag you into the Child Protective Service "meat grinder" any way she can.

She thinks nothing of making a False Accusation, only "making it stick".
You discover that she will LIE TO YOU and ABOUT YOU without conscience.

"At a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
(George Orwell)

"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." -- Mark Twain

"Add a few drops of malice to a half truth and you have an absolute truth." -- Eric Hoffer

She is not doing an "investigation". It is a prejudiced personal attack, an Inquisition, a Character Assassination on YOU.

"All parents are POTENTIAL ABUSERS"
You don't want to be a "potential abuser", do you?
That's why you NEED THEIR "HELP"!
Many of these "Case Workers" OFTEN were (or see) THEMSELVES as having been somehow "victimized" as children, distrusts ALL parents, and exacts RETRIBUTION on YOU!

There is a desperate need to codify a NEW CLINICAL condition of "Old Dysfunctional Hippie Disorder" (ODHD)

Your every past word, deed, and thought are scrutinized under the New Age microscope. She will fabricate conjectures to cast you in the worst possible light.

You think quietly to yourself "I must have gotten the worst SOCIOPATH in their whole office". But after a while you learn that THEY ARE ALL THAT WAY in every Child Protective Service office across the nation and around the world. Child "Protective" Services People fit the Profile of a Sociopath

If you maintain a HIGH MORAL or ETHICAL STANDARD of any kind, or if you are a Christian- you can expect SPECIAL ATTENTION for your standards- because they do not believe in ABSOLUTE right and wrong.

This is not about any ABUSE of children by parents, it's a POLITICALLY MOTIVATED Cultural War

While you are going through all this, you are so shocked, terrified, confused, bewildered, and disoriented- it doesn't occur to you that these people are running a SCAM on you under the COLOR OF LAW

They will try to keep you "confused" and "off balance" as long as possible. They strive to maintain themselves as the "god" over your life by "keeping you busy" complying with their absurd demands, seeing their "counselors", and attending their compelled useless "classes" IMPLYING that it "might" help get your kids back, or THREATENING you with permanent termination if you don't obey their every capricious whim.

They set these "meetings" up to require you to miss work. They DO NOT CARE if you lose your job.

In fact, it appears they WANT you to lose your job to make you DESTITUTE so YOU CAN'T AFFORD to fight them and "NEED" MORE OF THEIR "SERVICES"! They seem to especially enjoy setting meetings up to conflict WITH EACH OTHER and find you "non-compliant" for FAILING to be at BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.

They operate through fear, threats, and intimidation.

You are afraid to go talk with a lawyer about what they are doing to you, because "it might make them mad".

THEY ARE COUNTING on your "faith in the system" and your DISBELIEF that the flagrant injustice you are experiencing is anything but "just a misunderstanding".These people COULDN'T be doing what it LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE DOING!

AT NO TIME, do they want it to occur to you that you have American Constitutional Rights and DO NOT "HAVE" TO PUT UP WITH their Nazi behavior. If the thought DOES CROSS YOUR MIND to even ASK- "What about my Rights?", you will be met with nasty, foul, sickening threats.
By the time you start "wising up", the trap has already snapped shut and you THINK you have to "play their game" to resolve the situation.
Then by the time you realize that you are going to LOSE your kids, your job, your house, and probably your marriage over this mind-boggling fraud,
NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO OR DON'T DO, the process is complete.
If they have your kids, you might continue trying to "comply" with their insane, impossible conditions (which they keep adding) for up to 2 years.

People end up "plea bargaining", admitting "guilt" when they are completely innocent- because THEY TELL YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO, TO GET YOUR KIDS BACK.

Of course, once you admit guilt, YOU ARE TOAST

Very, very few parents ever "win" this game.

The few who do win, mortgaged their home, cashed in all the College savings, got SECOND JOBS, borrowed money from all their relatives and LUCKILY hired a lawyer who HATES THE CPS and fights to WIN, not plea bargain. They might get their kids back, after the CPS has ruined them.

Bankruptcy and Divorces often follow. Few people recover from the ungodly trauma and Legal Abuse a CPS investigation puts them through. Those of us who have been through a malicious False Allegation are often called "paranoid" by people who have never been through it (who have "faith in the system" and DISBELIEVE YOU). But we aren't deluded or irrational. We WERE persecuted.

As a newspaper editor remarked when I was discussing my case with him-

"It isn't paranoia if THEY REALLY ARE out to get you".

This industry, it's agenda, and methods are an INTOLERABLE ABUSE of American Citizens, and a deliberate AFFRONT to American Constitutional Rights, Basic Human Rights, and even the United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. -- William H. Borah

If they haven't attacked your family yet, we HIGHLY RECOMMEND our brochure "Family Survival Information- When your local Children's Protective Service takes an interest in YOUR FAMILY".

Be forewarned and ready to stand up for your Constitutional Rights. Your Constitutional Rights are your ONLY defense against these terrorists. When your Constitutional RIGHTS are gone, so is America. And we are very nearly there.

"Nothing is more dangerous than the idea that some public officials are above the law. If they are, then we don't have law -- and we won't have freedom much longer either." --Thomas Sowell

State's Child Protection Agencies Collude with Judges to Defraud Federal Government©

State's Child Protection Agencies Collude with Judges to Defraud Federal Government©Nev Moore Jan. '02 AFRA

In 1974 Walter Mondale initiated CAPTA (the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act), the legislation that began feeding federal funding into the state's child welfare agencies. With remarkable foresight Mondale expressed concerns that the legislation could lead to systemic abuse in that the state agencies might over-process children into the system unnecessarily to keep, and increase, the flow of federal dollars. Shortly after CAPTA was enacted there was a dramatic increase in the number of children in foster care, peaking at around 500,000 during the mid-70's. George Miller, the Chairman of the federal Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, initiated an intensive investigation of the nation's foster care system after the effects of CAPTA started to become apparent by the soaring numbers of children who were being placed in foster care. An official at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare admitted to Miller that the government had no idea where many of the nation's 500,000 foster children where living, what services they were receiving, if any, or if any efforts were being made to reunite them with their families.To address the obvious free-for-all snatching of children that CAPTA had stimulated, the Committee crafted new federal legislation with the intent of creating accountability and clearer guidelines for the states child welfare agencies. During the crafting of P.L. 96-272 Chairman Miller's concern was that the federal government was footing the bill for warehousing children in institutions and inappropriate settings without accountability. In 1980 the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act, P.L. 96-272, was enacted. The act included provisions that "reasonable efforts" be made to prevent children from being unnecessarily removed from their homes and placed in foster care.

Although CPS has always tried to buffalo the media and the public that they are involved with families due to some sort of horrific child abuse or neglect, there has never been any debate among national policy makers, researchers, and federal agencies that the vast majority of CPS cases are due to poverty or frivolous/social reasons and do not contain elements of real child abuse. If the cases did actually involve acts of abuse they would be criminal, identified and investigated by law enforcement, rather than social workers, and would be prosecuted as such. P.L. 96-272 came into effect partly because Congress determined that a large number of children were being unnecessarily removed from their homes, and, once removed, they were lost in the limbo of foster care for years, many until they just grew too old, when they were then put on the streets at the age of 18. The Child Welfare League of America testified before a senate subcommittee: "In fact, there were many instances then, as now, of children being removed unnecessarily from their families. It is important to recognize that children are almost always traumatized by removal from their own families." So, accountability from each states child protection agency was also written in. To receive the federal money the states would have to submit an annual report to the federal government, known as an AFCARS report, that specifically accounts for each child in state care.

ACLU Children's Rights Project attorney, Marcia Robinson Lowry, explained in her testimony to Congress: "As a condition of federal funding, states must have a reasonable information system to identify children in federally-funded state custody." These requirements were implemented in 1980. Up until 1999 some states were still not filing their federally required AFCARS report to the federal government. According to Jeffrey Locke, former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the excuse to the legislature was that they "couldn't figure out how towork their computer system."When I called Senator Therese Murray in 1998 to ask how many children had died in foster care in Massachusetts, her aide replied: "We don't have those statistics." At that time Senator Murray was the Senate Chair of the Committee on Health & Elderly Affairs, and therefore responsible to oversee the collection and filing of AFCARS data.The "reasonable efforts" requirements were designed to address these issues by requiring the states child welfare agencies to have specific investigation and assessment policies to minimize frivolous removals, to provide "services" to address and ameliorate conditions that were detrimental to the child's well-being; to place children with relatives when removal from the home was absolutely necessary; and make efforts to reunite families in a timely fashion.

Methods to audit and track compliance with federal requirements were also built in. The states were to establish "citizen review panels" comprised of a specifically designated representation of the population which would include not only members of collateral professional communities involved in child protection, but "parents, foster parents, and former foster children." Each state was to have at least three citizen review panels. The panels would essentially act as a standing jury of peers and would review CPS cases. Twenty years after P.L. 96- 272 went into effect the citizen review panels have never been established in most states.Another means of creating accountability was to have the federal authority, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, conduct compliance audits, which are known as Section 427 reviews. The method of enforcement that Congress devised to ensure that the states followed the federal law was to provide incentive funds to the states that documented their compliance with the federal regulations.

The states would self-certify compliance, but could be subjected to "periodic" 427 reviews by the Dept. of Health & Human Services. Were the states to find themselves in non-compliance they would simply return the incentive funds. It would seem that providing cash to agencies that are allowed to self-document compliance is a somewhat less than intelligent system. It would be interesting to track down exactly how much money the states child "protective" agencies have returned to the government because they found themselves in non-compliance. Gee, maybe this is rocket science.Like CAPTA, P.L. 96-272 could only have worked if the federal government demanded compliance and meticulous accountability, and them imposed sanctions for non-compliance. Even better – criminal charges for racketeering for intentional fraud. Mark Soler, director of the National Youth Law Center in California explained:
"The Department of Health & Human Services has failed to promulgate meaningful regulations to implement the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act. It has applied even the minimal federal regulations that were developed in an inconsistent and arbitrary manner, and only token implementation of the laws protecting children.'

Even when HHS finds overwhelming evidence of lack of compliance during 427 reviews, no sanctions are imposed and they continue to keep the fed $$$ pouring in – in violation of their own regulations. Not so much as a slap on the hand or even token admonishment. Certainly explains how CPS developed their arrogance and contempt for any authority – because there is none. Their confidence that they are free from the feds insisting on compliance with the law is well illustrated by the foster care numbers which increased dramatically after CAPTA began feeding federal dollars into the states child protection agencies, then dropped equally dramatically after the enactment of P.L.96-272, which was supposed to create more specific federal regulation and accountability.

However, once the state agencies saw that the federal government was not enforcing compliance, the foster care numbers soared once again.

Michael Petit, Deputy Director of the Child Welfare League of America, stated in his testimony before Congress: "A 427 is a meaningless process for most of the states. It represents no kind of sanctions to the states whatsoever for non-compliance." Marcia Robinson Lowry told Congress: "States are passing HHS audits with systems in which no reasonable person could consider that children are being well treated. It is virtually impossible to fail a 427 audit."The initial concept of "reasonable efforts" was the only conclusion that any rational person could come to: rather than disrupt children's lives, and traumatize them by seizing them from non- abusive situations and placing them with strangers (who are often no better, and sometimes far worse), assist families in overcoming their obstacles and problems by providing support and services.

The idea never worked, though, because it has always been more profitable to too many to remove children rather than keep them at home. Rather than offer support and simple, practical services to families CPS forged contracts with vendors. Now private businesses, under the guise of "service providers", could mushroom into existence knowing that their sugar daddy, CPS, would provide a never-ending flow of coerced clients. The market potential is unlimited – potentially every mother, father, grandparent, and child in the country. Rather than offering practical, meaningful services that are germane to the families circumstances, CPS clients are ordered to engage in "services" with CPS-contracted vendors; special interest groups who are dependent on CPS for their income and profit by maintaining the levels of children in foster care, and whose interests are protected by a bureaucracy intent on securing it's own survival and protecting unlimited growth.The extent of which CPS is allowed to continue to operate while being so far out of compliance with the existing state and federal laws is mind boggling. It would be a challenge to find any other agency in our countries history that operated in such gross and blatant violation of the law with absolutely no intervention from the administration.

Tens of millions of tax dollars are being squandered on a system that is destroying families and causing lifelong emotional ruin to children – and those are the lucky ones who live through it.The most egregious area of outright criminal fraud is CPS's practice of filing their federally required documentation of compliance in secrecy through the courts. The federal foster care reimbursements are channeled through the Title IV-E section of the Social Security Act. Each states child welfare agency enters into a contract with the federal government, which is referred to as their Title IV-E state plan. It is this contract that spells out the responsibilities that CPS must, by law, comply with in order to receive their federal funding. To document compliance with the fed regs CPS must file a form through the courts in each individual case. In

Massachusetts these forms are referred to as a "29-C." 42 U.S. Code, ss 672 reads:

"These requirements are not mere formalities. The Finance Committee of Congress, in preparing its summary for final passage of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, P.L. 96-272, stated; ` The Committee is aware of allegations that the judicial determination requirement (sic: that a judge makes a determination that a child needs to be removed from the home) can become a
mere pro forma exercise in paper shuffling to obtain federal funding.

While this could occur in some instances, the Committee is unwilling to accept as a general proposition that the judiciaries of the States would so lightly treat a responsibility placed upon them by federal statute for the protection of children."

1980 U.S. Code Cong. and Admin. News:

"A judicial determination of those efforts (reasonable efforts, as defined in the Act) serves to closely examine, in the case of each individual child, whether reasonable efforts were made to keep the family intact."

In accordance with the federal requirements the Massachusetts legislature enacted G.L. c.119 ss 29b, which requires all judges to certify that the Department of Social Services met the obligation grounded in the federal statute of making reasonable efforts to protect the child short of removing him or her from the parents, and, if the child was removed, making it possible for the child to return home in a timely manner.

Rather than "closely examining", in Massachusetts this grave responsibility is carried out by judges by rubber stamping stacks of 29c forms that simply contain three "yes" or "no" check boxes. In many instances making three check marks is even too much work for Massachusetts judges and they rubber stamp the forms while leaving them blank – never mind actually verifying that the "reasonable efforts" were made. In return for these forms DSS receives it's federal money.

The three questions are:

1. Continuation in the home is contrary to the well being of the child?

2. Reasonable efforts have been made prior to the placement of the child to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the child from his/her home?

3. Reasonable efforts have been made to make it possible for the child to return to his parent/guardian?

I discussed this issue a few years ago with Veronica Melendez at the Children's Bureau (the federal authority). She told me that the federal government was under the impression that all parties were present in the court room at the time of the filing of the 29c's, so that the parents attorneys had the opportunity to object, rebut, or verify the "reasonable efforts."

In reality, no one sees the federal forms except the judges and a representative of DSS's main legal department. Attorneys ask us how we ever "got our hands on" the 29c forms, as we have never yet met an attorney who has seen the forms, let alone have been notified of the filing hearing. We even have forms on which the "no" boxes were checked, yet the children were still removed from their homes and federal funds collected for them.

By seizing children illegally in violation of the Title IV-E requirements, then filing false documents in secrecy through the courts to obtain federal funding, CPS is defrauding the federal government with intent.

CPS should be subject to investigation and prosecution by the U.S. Attorneys Office.

They should be held liable for the restitution of all illegally obtained funds, and prosecuted for perjury, obstruction of justice, and the fraudulent collection of federal funds under the False Statements and Accountability Act of 1996, P.L. 104-292 110 stat 3459, 42 U.S.C.S. 670-679a; P.L. 96-272; C.F.R. part 1356; and Title IV-E. I have discussed this issue with the Inspector Generals Office and they felt it could possible be prosecuted under RICO, yet they have also failed to act, possibly because it isn't just CPS/DSS who is committing federal fraud, but also the judges who are signing the documents.

In 1988 George Miller, the original architect of P.L. 96-272, and Chairman of the congressionally appointed Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, recognized the fraud being committed in the name of child "protection", and stated:

"What has been demonstrated here is that you have a system that is simply in contempt. This system has been sued and sued and orders have been issued and they just continue on their merry way. And HHS just continues to look the other way. You have a system that is not only out of control, it's illegal at this point. What you are really engaged in is state sponsored child abuse."