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Default LIVERPOOL, Texas — FLDS Kids left mark on caretakers

POLYGAMIST SECT CHILDREN
Kids left mark on caretakers
Polite youngsters were playful, did chores and disliked cartoons

By RICHARD STEWART
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/5828446.html

LIVERPOOL — The children from a West Texas polygamist compound who spent
two months at a group home in Brazoria County never engaged in pretend
play and didn't like to be called kids.

To them, kids are small goats, so they jokingly changed the shelter's
name from "Kidz Harbor" to "Billy Goat Harbor."

At the same time, the youngsters were polite, bright and loving, said
Kidz Harbor administrator Angie Colbert, who was called "Mother Angie"
by the children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints.

Far from seeming traumatized by being taken from their homes at the
Yearning for Zion Ranch by state officials and held in the group home,
they seemed "to handle it like it was a vacation," Colbert said in an
interview Monday.

The children arrived at Kidz Harbor April 25. They were among more than
400 children seized by state officials at the Yearning for Zion Ranch
because of complaints about underage girls being forced into polygamist
marriages with older men.

The children were returned to their parents last week after the Texas
Supreme Court ruled that officials had no authority to seize them.

At first the newcomers included several young mothers and their
children. Child Protective Services officials referred to them as
"disputed mothers," Colbert said.

The older children called CPS the "child persecution service," she said.

After about a month, officials determined that the mothers were adults,
and they were released with their infant children.

Kidz Harbor was left with 24 children, from 1 to 10 years old.

The Alvin Independent School District sent two teachers, who set up two
classrooms for the older children.

In the two months they were at the group shelter near Liverpool, the
children made a lasting impression on the staff.

The children, who have never watched TV, quickly told staff that they
didn't like decorations with pretend characters. Tinkerbell and
Spider-Man covers were taken off some beds.

All red bedspreads and towels were taken out, Colbert said. "It was the
devil's color," she said.

Children soon added their own decorations of signs and drawings. Many
were done in classes held at the shelter by the two Alvin teachers.

People flooded Kidz Harbor with gifts, including tricycles and bicycles.
"None of them had ever ridden one before," Colbert said. The children
quickly learned.

"One girl got so good at the hula hoop that she kept count of how many
times she could keep it going around," Colbert said. Her record was 198.

Staff members taught the children games familiar to most other children,
like "Red light, green-light," Colbert said.

Some children spurned stuffed animals, others clung to three or four.

"They all wanted dolls and baby carriages," Colbert said, "The boys, too."

Used to doing chores, the children were helpful in cleaning their own
rooms. "We got them some little kid-sized brooms," Colbert said.

Older children led the group in prayer and religious songs every morning
and evening, Colbert said. Parents of the children were allowed to make
supervised visits once a week at a CPS office in Angleton.

Colbert declined to comment Monday on how she feels about allegations
that FLDS members encouraged young teenage girls to enter into
polygamist marriages with much older men.

The staff, meanwhile, was amazed at the outpouring of gifts people made
to the shelter. Furniture stores sent beds. Churches and individuals
sent money and gift cards.

The reunions between the children and their parents seemed strangely
reserved, Colbert said. "I think that's just the way they are," she said.

While the children seemed happy to be going with their parents, many
gave staff members goodbye hugs. "It was hard to see them go," Colbert said.

She has gotten a couple of letters from mothers of FLDS children
thanking her for the care they received in Brazoria County. She would
welcome any of the children back.

"It's very quiet around here," she said.










An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"

Child Protective Services Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of CPS.

every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

Perpetrators of Maltreatment

Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.

THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST

Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs…

THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia

http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6

This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.

http://www.jbs.org/node/4632

Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail

FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler

http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc

HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN

http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html

Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News

http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm

A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca

30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed

Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support

80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.

The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991

Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s
foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing.

This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would
have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in
the first place.

Front-page story in USA Today.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close

Read the studies online.

Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Ca Findings from the
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study,"

http://www.casey.org/Resources/Publi...lumniStudy.htm

MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects
of Foster Care,"

http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf

http://www.cftl.org/documents/2008/FCfullreport.pdf

Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" reports:

www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren

The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
walking wreckage...

CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....

CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...

BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
 




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