Children are FOUR TIMES more likely to die in State’s Care than in the natural home – the ones that are alive, are traumatized, abused, and damaged for life.
What is our government doing to our children?

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the United States. _______________________________________________
PARENTS v. CPS _
PERPETRATORS OF MALTREATMENT STATISTICS:

Physical Abuse: CPS= 160 – Parents = 59
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Sexual Abuse : CPS = 112 – Parents = 13
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Neglect: CPS = 410 – Parents = 241
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Medical Neglect: CPS = 14 – Parents = 12
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Fatalities: CPS = 6,4 – Parents = 1,5

(source): The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) in Washington.

What is the government doing to our children???

CHECK THIS OUT: In her Statement regarding Texas Foster Care in 2006, TWO YEARS following her 2004 Forgotten Children Report, Carole Strayhone issues a statement that shows us exactly how regarded our children in foster care really are to the state:
She states,

“The state is supposed to be protecting our forgotten children, but in all too many cases these children are taken from one abusive situation and placed in another abusive situation. Many children are in more abusive situations now than they were before the state intervened. Children are being neglected and abused and are dying.

“As reported by the media, a 12-year-old boy died in December 2005, while in our state’s care at a facility that treats children with learning disabilities and emotional problems. The boy suffocated while being restrained from behind by an employee of the facility.

“Another boy in our state’s care at the same facility died May 30, after drowning in a creek during a May 6 bicycle outing.

“A three-year old was treated for poisoning from an atypical, mind-altering antipsychotic drug. These drugs are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for children under the age of 18 years old.

“Gov. Perry’s failure to create a Crisis Management Team is unconscionable. The crisis is minute-by-minute and child-by-child. I renew my call. He must act now to save children’s lives.

“I discovered the alarming number of deaths, poisonings, rapes and pregnancies while conducting my investigation into potential prescription drug fraud and abuse in the state’s foster care system.

“I launched my investigation in November 2004, after my report, Forgotten Children, uncovered the fact that large numbers of psychotropic drugs are being prescribed to children in the foster care system, even though, according to the FDA, many of these drugs are not approved for children and have serious side effects such as suicidal tendencies, diabetes, and cardiac arrhythmia.

“Since that time, repeated and continuing roadblocks and stonewalling have been encountered by me and my staff in attempting to secure basic and necessary data from the Health and Human Services Commission to complete my investigation.

“It has been 19 months and 25 letters, emails, meetings and phone calls since I first requested foster care and corresponding Medicaid data from HHSC. ..”

source: http://www.cpa.state.tx.us/news/60623statement.html

What message does that send to the people that children are so easily disregarded by the agencies implemented to supposedly protect them? It does not give a lot of incentive to care, thats for sure. Children are taught by the actions of the people in the environment, role models, influences, mentors. If the people raising them don’t care, and they complain and nothing is done, how are they going to learn to care about themselves and their futures? Stay away from drugs? Not commit crimes? They won’t. They will only learn from their peers who are just as angry, hurt, and lost.

So when its their house broken into, or their car stolen, I bet they’d care then, and try to put them in jail.
Then they care about the costs to house them in jail, and the overcrowding issues when their taxes go up and they lose part of their paycheck.
Or when the ghettos and slums nearby affect the housing value of their neighborhoods, because of the crime rate when these kids age out and have no place to go.
Or the stray bullet of a drive by that hits their wife or kid…they’d care then.
They complain that the beggars are coming up to their car at a gas station or a red light.
Or they complain that they can’t go anywhere without locking their doors, or worrying about their kids walking to the store alone.
Why not start to care before innocent children wind up this way.Eventually, it’ll hit home.
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