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Default WASHINGTON -- Campaign stands up for foster children's plight

Campaign stands up for foster children's plight
Exhibit of cardboard cutouts represents their struggles

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/..._foster19.html

By JUDY HOLLAND
P-I WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON -- Life-size cardboard cutouts of children will start
springing up on the National Mall this week at the rate of 850 a day to
illustrate how many kids are entering foster care on a daily basis.

The exhibit, "Forgotten Children -- Foster Children Take a Stand," is
intended to raise public awareness of the struggles of an estimated
513,000 foster kids nationwide, many of whom were removed from their
original homes because of suspected abuse or neglect.

"The problems of the foster children in this country are largely
invisible because most of us don't know who they are and don't see
them," says Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., who chairs the House Ways and
Means subcommittee that handles federal aid to states for foster care
assistance.

McDermott says a glaring problem in the federal foster-care assistance
program is that only children under age 18 are eligible.

McDermott and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., are pushing legislation that
would extend federal funding to states to support foster youths beyond
age 18.

"When you left home, your parents were still there, so you could ask
them a question or for $50," McDermott says. "These kids have nothing."

McDermott, a psychiatrist, says foster children typically live in
multiple homes and attend many schools.

"It's a totally unstable childhood," he says, adding that many of them
wind up in the criminal justice system, involved in drugs or prostitution.

"It's all too common that foster care is a prelude to winding up in
prison," McDermott says.

The cardboard cutouts at the National Mall exhibit, at the intersection
of Constitution Avenue and 15th Street, will hold messages such as "We
all Have the Highest Potential," "Foster Children Should be Seen and
Heard," and "8 Foster Homes," -- illustrating the constant uprooting and
multiple homes for many foster care children.

Jim Clune, chief communications officer for the National CASA
Association -- Court Appointed Special Advocates -- a nonprofit group
that advocates for abused and neglected children, says 14 percent of
foster children report being homeless after leaving care at age 18.

The weeklong exhibit is being sponsored by Clune's group and the Freddie
Mac and Dr. Phil foundations.

Clune says a February study by the group showed that many foster
children feel emotionally stronger than other kids because of the
hardships they've overcome but are "looking into a hole" as they "age
out" of the foster system at age 18.

The study of 50 foster youths averaging age 17 was conducted in Miami,
Dallas, Anchorage, San Diego and New Haven, Conn.

The CASA Association was founded in 1977 by Seattle Judge David Soukup,
who conceived of the idea of using trained community volunteers to speak
for the interests of foster children in court. Today CASA has 958
offices in 49 states with more than 50,000 volunteers.
P-I reporter Judy Holland can be reached at 202-263-6400.




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

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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