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Who's Kids Are They Anyway? By Mike Gallagher http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MikeGallagher/2008/05/23/whos_kids_are_they_anyway?page=full&comments=true I'm not sure that I have ever been so relieved to see a headline. "Court Rules Removal of Children From FLDS Compound was Illegal."

State Investigates Foster Care Agency for Over billing http://www.kmtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8371878 Omaha, NE - The Nebraska State Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services are investigating Sigma Treatment Foster Care in Omaha for alleged over billing. A spokesperson for HHS...

State agrees to pay $850,000 to former Lauderdale Lakes foster child By Jon Burstein | South Florida Sun-Sentinel 11:01 PM EDT, June 4, 2008 http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbcalhoun0605sbjun05,0,272804.story The state Department of Children & Families has reached an...

7Th Circuit Court Rules That A Social Worker Violated The 4th Amendment By Strip Searching Children http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977351149&grpId=3659174697241980&nav=Groupspace by Rob Port May 22, 2008 09:36 AM EDT views: 159 The gist of it is that a social worker who...

Warnings missed in girl's death http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0604roberts0604.html Jun. 4, 2008 12:00 AM In the last months of her brief life, it was as if Trenay Duchane didn't exist. She and her sister Treshae were no longer allowed to go to school. They were never...

Entrepreneur charged with rape of 8-year-old Man was a volunteer with children; victim in case was a girl he was supposed to serve. http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/05/28/0528carroll.html By Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Shining light on child welfare system http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/052508/opinion_20080525029.shtml By Tom Rawlings | Commentary | Story updated at 10:39 PM on Sunday, May 25, 2008 Sometimes it takes someone from the outside making a little noise to draw our attention to...

2 images emerge of foster mother Discipline is focus in her murder trial http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1083734.html Mandy Locke, Staff Writer SMITHFIELD - A jury will be asked to decide whether Lynn Paddock was a deeply religious but overwhelmed mother or a deceptive woman who...

Boy, 11, reveals life of pain, starvation http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=691077&category=REGION&newsdate=5/24/2008 "I can't take it anymore" adopted child tells cops, saying mom abused him By BOB GARDINIER, Staff writer Click byline for more stories by writer. First...

PATCH GIRL'S BIRTH MOM IN $50M SUIT By JAMIE SCHRAM http://www.nypost.com/seven/05232008/news/regionalnews/patch_girls_birth_mom_in_50m_suit_112129.htm May 23, 2008 -- The biological mother of a 6-year-old Manhattan girl who died after her foster mom allegedly used a painkiller patch on her...

Is it child protection or legal kidnapping? http://www.examiner.com/a-1413553~Is_it_child_protection_or_legal_kidnapping_.html WASHINGTON - Children being taken from their homes, based on tips from anonymous telephone callers alleging abuse or neglect, has been cast in a harsh spotlight in the...

Lawmaker says CPS officials guilty of ‘ruthless behavior’ http://www.examiner.com/a-1413555~Lawmaker_says_CPS_officials_guilty_of__ruthless_behavior_.html WASHINGTON - In August, the Free the Children Coalition is planning a national rally in D.C. to expose what it says is judicial fraud in...

Mother sues DCF over boy's death A year after Broward's medical examiner determined 'blunt force head injuries' caused a 7-year-old boy's death, his mother has filed suit, blaming state child welfare agencies for not investigating complaints of...

Latter-Day Taint Who will rescue the children of Yearning for Zion Ranch from their rescuers? Jacob Sullum | April 30, 2008 http://www.reason.com/news/show/126240.html I'm not quite as old-fashioned as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus

A permanent fixture of injustice: Child Protective Services http://www.sfbayview.com/News/Display_this_week/A_permanent_fixture_of_injustice_Child_Protective_Services.html by Amanda Smiles, Poor News Network Wednesday, 21 May 2008 Young mother’s attempt to help a friend leads to...

CPS employees stall Nassau probe into drowning deaths BY MICHAEL AMON | 8:50 PM EDT, May 26, 2008 http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-licps0527,0,7841088.story A probe into Nassau County's handling of neglect cases against a New Cassel mother charged with drowning...

Bureaucrats running down the clock against parents http://www.examiner.com/a-1413554~Bureaucrats_running_down_the_clock_against_parents.html WASHINGTON - When Congress passed the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act, it allowed states to terminate parental rights after a child has been in foster...

Texas had secret plan to separate polygamist mothers, children 12:00 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 By CHRISTY HOPPE / The Dallas Morning News http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-cps_04tex.ART0.State.Edition2.4600b41.html AUSTIN...

The FLDS Children Seized in Texas are in Their Own Private Gitmo http://www.alternet.org/rights/86704/?page=entire By Richard Wexler, The Nation. Posted May 31, 2008. Foster care is a toxic intervention, to be used sparingly. In the case of the Yearning for Zion ranch, Texas prescribed...

An Important Win for Fathers, Children in Nebraska Supreme Court http://www.bloggernews.net/116039 Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Glenn Sacks in Nebraska News Read 224 times. We’ve often discussed anti-father bias in Child Protective Services cases. Fathers are frequently marginalized and...