Kids taken from those who grew up in the system
One of my friends was so scared of CPS he had his wife keep her last name and insisted his children have her last name
That is how paranoid my friend we will call him Jim (for this piece to protect his identity) was after getting married and having children. He grew up in the system and was worried that his last name would make his children a target for CPS. I thought he was being paranoid to be honest. But I respected the fact he would give up the right for his children to have his last name in order to protect them. Fast forward a few years his marriage didn't work out and they divorced. He has co-parented with his ex wife and raised those two children to respectful adults.
He met someone new a few years ago
They have started a family together but his new partner in life insisted the children she has with him has his last name. And against his better judgement he let her have her way. The day after their son was born, CPS was there taking the child, supposedly because of a drug in her system, that the doctor gave her, it wasn't a street drug. In order to keep his family together Jim had to sell his home to pay for a lawyer. It took 4 months of fighting but he did regain custody of his son. But it got me thinking maybe he is right. Maybe the system is targeting children of those who grew up in the system and they use last names to identify then create reasons to take the child or children.
I started wondering because of what is going on with @charisma777
She too was in and out of the same county's CPS system as Jim and I was, she had moved out of the area after having children, but she started having problems with CPS shortly after moving back to our home town. So I have to wonder if the CPS in that county is targeting the children of those who grew up in the system and why? Is this some type of study? Cause neither of these families deserve to have their children remove. The only reason Jim got his child back is because he had an asset to sell to pay for an attorney. @charisma777 doesn't have the money for an attorney and has to depend on legal aid and is still fighting for her son. Btw they only removed one of her kids not both, that goes to prove she is a fit mother.
How do we fight back against a system that does this
I don't know how we are suppose to fight against a system that does this to people. How can chains be broken when they remove children from homes who should not be removed? I see children of Heroin and Meth addicts being kept in the home but children who are from good homes because their parents were foster kids at some point in their life, being removed. It makes me sad, I don't know the answer to stop this crap from happening but I can try to start discussions about it.
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You are correct that if you are a former foster child, your children are at more risk of being taken by CPS than other people's children.
What a shocking story of your friend and the difference between when he did NOT use his last name for his children, and when he did!
When my friend whose toddler broke his leg was being investigated, they dug up past history of her and tried to use it against her. In her case, her parents had been reported when she was a child to CPS. CPS investigated and did not pursue it any further. Jump forward to present times and they tried to tell her that since her father had abused her as a child, it probably means that she is abusing her own children. ... what?
Back then they decided that she was not being abused, and now they say that she was?
And in the cases where children have been taken away to foster care, they assume that those children grow up incapable of raising their own children. So they believe that their own system of 'helping' children doesn't work, since the children that they 'helped' grow up to be abusers anyways (according to them.) It's a viscious cycle. They take the first children, and then can take their children, and then can take their children.
I'm glad that you and your children have been able to avoid that cycle.
They have their dad's names not mine I am wondering if that is why I never really had many issues at home with CPS even when my ex tried to use them to harass me after our divorce
Perhaps. Whatever the reason, I am glad.
I grew up in foster care. CPS does what they want to. It's a business..
I believe that -- even though there are a lot of good people working in these so-called protection services -- there is also a lot of corruption there. It isn't just limited to protective services for children. As you know in my mom's case, protective services for adults is also involved. Usually, money or some kind of slavery is involved in most of these cases. It began (on one level, anyway) when certain people who had something to gain from it called APS and told lies about us. They came out to do investigations and found nothing amiss, but the same people kept calling. My mom was finally taken to a nursing home in another county. Something similar happened to another friend and her mom who lived a few miles south of us. Another friend who lives in a different state had APS called on him to try to separate him from his wife due to some stupid regulations. AND they want to keep people troubled using any means they can. I can tell you stories that will peel paint off of the walls!!!
Let's start with how my mom and I ended up with similar health issues at one time. I believe now that we both might have been given some food that made us sick. At the same time, we had things going wrong with our vehicles and water pumps. We had two different wells. My gas line was tampered with three times as you know. People who tried to help us got harassed. One couple ended up losing their business and have since left the state. One person who was, in my opinion, responsible for how things have turned out is in prison now on unrelated charges because he ended up trying to cheat some people who had more money and resources to go after him. But I'm going to cut to how both my mom and I were getting better thanks to some really good people helping us out (and these people were later harassed for it). One day, this one visiting nurse came out and said that my mom needed to be taken to the hospital to be observed overnight because of the findings of her examination. She didn't go to the hospital in an ambulance. She walked -- using only her cane -- out to her caretaker's pick-up truck and got up into it with only some assistance. She walked into the hospital. She ended up being put into a bed where she stayed for three days without even being allowed to get up and go to the bathroom (using a combo of a bedpan and bed chucks). The next time she was stood up, her legs were weak. It was decided at that point that she couldn't return home. Anyway, she was placed in a local nursing home. When she got out, a lot of attempts were made to sabotage her recovery. And her caretakers were being harassed. She ended up with a court-appointed guardian and was taken from the hospital where she had been taken once again straight into a nursing home in another county. She didn't come out of there alive. I'm leaving out parts of the story, but I know you remember this.
But -- long story short -- once you get into the system in some way, it's difficult (though not impossible) to get out of again. When I was living in Muncie, I got to get to know several people who had become part of that system with at least some of them having some success at it, but it was still not easy to do.
I have reason to believe that some tampering went on with my van. There were signs such as the way that the works could be gotten to due to the fact that the hook didn't completely lock; one door didn't lock, and the driver's side window would often roll down by itself. I also believe that something was probably added to my gas tank that caused my van to just stall from time to time. Eventually, I began having this mysterious problem with my radiator overheating to where I would have to stop ever so often to let it cool down and, then, add some water to it.
Larry and I will never forget how it took us about three hours to get from his apartment in North Anderson to Fazoli's out on Scatterfield Road that's one of the businesses close to WalMart -- a trip where driving time should have been 30 minutes at the most.
In short, CPS, APS, Big Pharma, and other parts of the government /big business seem to have a goal to do away with the middle class to where, if this isn't stopped, will have two classes: several degrees of rich-and-powerful and everybody else living in poverty and controlled by the first group.
First, we need to be getting divided up into groups that believe that people who are too "different" from us are our enemies. We need to retain and celebrate our uniqueness while, also, uniting with people who are different from us in order to fight this thing together.
Enough of rant for now -- but one more thing: people shouldn't have to lose their homes to pay medical bills and lawyer fees.
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