Morgan wrote:
I have read of some atrocities going on as such as losing over 17,00 children, I have to ask myself, can this be true?
I'm curious are you just as angry when American children are separated from their parents when the parents or even the child commits a crime and is found guilty and thrown in prison??
Are you just as angry when American parents who opt out of a particular medical treatment for their children and the state takes the children away, therefore separating the children from their parents??
Are you just as angry when American parents are cited for 'neglect' and their children are removed from their home because the parent let them go play at the neighborhood park, or walk to the local fishing hole to fish, or walk to the corner store to get a soda WITHOUT their parent present, or even walk home from school by themselves, or play out in their own front yards for hours without supervision???
Free range parents??? No, it's called parenting..but they fight against CPS.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/5/free-range-parents-want-more-freedom-kids/Horror stories about parents being cited for letting their children engage in once-commonplace activities are legion, but the tension came to a head in 2015 with the publicity surrounding the Meitiv case in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Free-range parents Alexander and Danielle Meitiv were charged with neglect and threatened with the loss of their children, ages 10 and 6, for allowing them to walk home alone from a local park, although the charge was later dropped.
Ms. Skenazy, who now heads Let Grow, a non-profit aimed at promoting childhood self-sufficiency, bemoaned the fact that her push against “bubble-wrapping” kids has now made some parents “nervous that they could get arrested.”
It's pretty bad laws like this need to be passed at all...
The movement has already notched one legislative victory: In April, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law specifying that “neglect” does not include allowing a child to engage in “independent activities” such as playing outside, walking to school, or being left at home or in a car unattended under certain circumstances.
Each year, about 3.4 million cases involving 7.4 million children — roughly 10 percent of the U.S. child population — are screened by Child Protective Services. Of those, 650,000 cases receive a neglect determination.
“If kids play outside, if they’re left in cars, if they’re allowed to walk home from schools, CPS will very often in some places — not everywhere, but in many places in the United States — accept hotline calls and call that neglect,” said Ms. Redleaf, a Chicago lawyer who founded the Family Defense Center.
She said those found guilty of neglect may find their names on a child-abuse register, which could disqualify them from jobs in health care, education and other fields.
What’s more, such a finding “happens very often on the say-so of just a caseworker and their supervisor. They just declare you to be a neglecter. And some states don’t even have an effective system to allow you to challenge that,” said Ms. Redleaf.
How about this, does this make you just as angry???
https://www.offthegridnews.com/current-events/police-remove-7-children-from-parents-because-theyre-home-schooled/“Nobody in their right mind would want to stay home all day with so many children,” the social worker reportedly said about Christina Tutt. The casework, though, also allegedly said, “There is no problem here” – that is, no concerns about the kids’ safety. The unidentified caseworker ordered Christina to undergo a psychological examination and enroll in parenting classes, according to the Texas Home School Coalition, which is supporting the parents.
The Tutts are highly experienced parents who have been caring for troubled children for years. Some of their children are biological, others adopted. The parents were even featured speakers at Lake Pointe Church’s Adoption and Foster Care Conference. The Tutts had already completed parenting classes from Safe Families, an organization for foster parents.
“Since all it takes is an anonymous phone call to have a family under investigation by CPS and if, with no evidence of abuse or neglect,” Texas Home School Coalition President Tim Lambert told The Washington Times, “a judge or CPS can remove children simply by alleging that the children are behind academically, then many families could be at risk.”