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October 1

"In the language of the Holy Writ, there is a time for all things. There is a time to preach and a time to fight."

Thus ended the sermon of 30-year-old pastor John Peter Muhlenberg as he removed his clerical robes to reveal a uniform in the Continental Army.

After church, 300 men of his congregation rode off with him to join General Washington's 8th Virginia regiment.

Born OCTOBER 1, 1746, John Peter Muhlenberg died the same day in 1807.

After hearing Patrick Henry speak the famous words, "give me liberty or give me death," John Peter Muhlenberg approached General Washington and enlisted.

Promoted to Major-General, he endured the freezing winter of Valley Forge and fought at Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Stonypoint and Yorktown.

John Peter Muhlenberg was elected Congressman and Senator.

John's father, Henry Muhlenberg, was a founder of the Lutheran Church in America.

John's brother, Frederick, also an ordained minister, was elected the first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Both John and Frederick served in the first session of Congress which passed the First Amendment.

In 1889, Pennsylvania placed a statue of John Peter Muhlenberg in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.

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President Signs Child and Family Services and TANF Extension Acts

Posted on September 30, 2011 by YaMinco

Today signaled a major victory for many children and families as President Obama signed two key pieces of legislation, extending benefits to families across the country. First, the Short-Term TANF Extension Act (H.R. 2943) would extend TANF grants to states through the remainder of the year. It does not, however, extend the authorization for TANF supplemental grants, which expired back in June. The President also signed the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act (H.R. 2883), which reauthorizes Title IV-B through FY 2016 and reinstates Title IV-E waiver authority. CWLA applauds the President on the signing of these important measures.

As I have said repeatedly, I don't believe for a second that anything GOOD is going to happen for families. In a few months, all this will be forgotten and the system will just slouch on with being Nasty Nazis.  As always

Foster Parents; "Back to the basics", documentation, part 9 / 9

Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner

We are talking about ways you can encourage other foster parents who have not yet discovered this educational resource. FULL STORY

Appellate Court affirms mother neglected kids by committing violence against dad

Daniel Weaver, Albany CPS and Family Court Examiner
September 30, 2011

The New York State Appellate Division, First Department, affirmed yesterday a decision by New York County Family Court Judge, Clark V. Richardson, that gave custody of three children to their father after determining that the mother had attacked the father in front of the children.

In the Matter of Aliyah B., the court also stated that the preponderance of the evidence showed that there was educational neglect on the part of the mother, as one child had missed 64 out of 181 days of school and was late 38 ouft of 181 days.

The court also ruled that family court used proper discretion in issuing an order of protection against the mother, and that it was in the best interests of the children that the father had relocated with them to Pennsylvania where the father felt the children's lives would be improved by living with his sister.  FULL STORY

Liberty Quotes

"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out."
-- Reverend Martin Niemoeller
(1892-1984) German Lutheran pastor, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau in 1938. He was freed by the allied forces in 1945.
Source: Poem in 1976 translated from German
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Martin.Niemoeller.Quote.4E05

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.C09C

"But if you say, you can still pass the violations over, then I ask, hath your house been burnt? Hath your property been destroyed before your face? Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor? If you have not, then you are not a judge of those who have. But if you have, and can still shake hands with the murderers, then you are unworthy of the name of husband, father, friend, or lover, and whatever may be your rank or title in life, you have the heart of a coward and the spirit of a sycophant." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Source: Common Sense, 1776
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Paine.Quote.91BA

Foster care in Michigan: Maryanne Godboldo's daughter is going home

Thursday, September 29, 2011
Foster care in Michigan: Maryanne Godboldo's daughter is going home

There's so much good news today it's hard to keep up. But WXYZ-TV is reporting that Maryanne Godboldo's daughter gets to go home to her mother. After weeks of institutionalization, the child had been in the custody of an aunt. The court also ruled that it will not force the child to take any medication. So far there are no further details, including whether or not CPS still gets to pry into the family's life.

UPDATE, 6:05PM: CPS Remains in the family's life at least until December 12.

http://www.nccprblog.org/2011/09/foster-care-in-michigan-maryanne.html

Foster care in Texas: Child wins an order of protection – AGAINST CPS

Thursday, September 29, 2011
Foster care in Texas: Child wins an order of protection – AGAINST CPS

Talk about turning the tables. It’s not unusual for a battered woman to go to court and obtain an “order of protection” against an abusive husband or boyfriend. The order requires the abuser to keep away. Now a child has won such an order of protection – against Texas Child Protective Services.

Here’s what happened...  FULL STORY

Foster Parents; "Back to the basics". Documentation part 8/9

Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner

We are talking about the how to of documentation; Let us continue now.What was that you said? You did not start with number… FULL STORY

CDC now calling U.S. households and demanding child immunization records as part of vaccine surveillance and tracking program

Wednesday, September 28, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which has been comprehensively exposed as a vaccine propaganda organization promoting the interests of drug companies, is now engaged in a household surveillance program that involves calling U.S. households and intimidating parents into producing child immunization records. As part of what it deems a National Immunization Survey (NIS), the CDC is sending letters to U.S. households, alerting them that they will be called by "NORC at the University of Chicago" and that households should "have your child's immunization records handy when answering our questions." (See copies of the letter, below.)

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033717_CDC_National_Immunization_Survey.html

Liberty Quotes

"The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government." -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) US Senator
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Daniel.Webster.Quote.22E2

"...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances." -- Harry Browne (1933-2006) American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst. Libertarian candidate for US President 1996 & 2000 1966
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Harry.Browne.Quote.4FA0

"If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution." Samuel Adams instigated the Boston Tea Party, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, called for the first Continental Congress, and served as a member of Congress until 1781. Samuel Adams formed the Committees of Correspondence, which were largely responsible for the unity and cohesion of the Colonists preceding the Revolution. The original committee, formed in Boston, had three goals:
(1) To delineate the rights of Colonists as men;
(2) To detail how these rights had been violated;
(3) To publicize these rights and the violations thereof throughout the Colonies.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Samuel.Adams.Quote.B826

Indiana School Agrees to Cease Subjecting Students to Intrusive Mental Health Surveys Without Written Parental Consent

9/26/2011

Victory: Indiana School Agrees to Cease Subjecting Students to Intrusive Mental Health Surveys Without Written Parental Consent

PORTAGE, Ind.— Officials with the Portage Township School Corporation have agreed to cease their practice of having students complete mental health and suicide surveys without their parents' written consent after being warned by attorneys for The Rutherford Institute that doing so places them in violation of the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), a federal law which governs student surveys by educational agencies receiving federal funding.

"This is a huge victory for parental rights," said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. "Parents are the ones who should decide whether they want their children to be mined for information about their personal thoughts, beliefs or practices. We take it seriously when government officials try to short-circuit that essential parent-child relationship." FULL STORY

Animal Farm and CPS

Why I was so dumbfounded when my CPS agents claimed they had NEVER READ
Animal Farm by George Orwell, Published August 1945-

Chapter 3

....Napoleon took no interest in Snowball's committees. He said that the education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those who were already grown up. It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies. As soon as they were weaned, Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education. He took them up into a loft which could only be reached by a ladder from the harness-room, and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.

Chapter 5

....At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws. In a moment he was out of the door and they were after him. Too amazed and frightened to speak, all the animals crowded through the door to watch the chase. Snowball was racing across the long pasture that led to the road. He was running as only a pig can run, but the dogs were close on his heels. Suddenly he slipped and it seemed certain that they had him. Then he was up again, running faster than ever, then the dogs were gaining on him again. One of them all but closed his jaws on Snowball's tail, but Snowball whisked it free just in time. Then he put on an extra spurt and, with a few inches to spare, slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more.

Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn. In a moment the dogs came bounding back. At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately. Though not yet full-grown, they were huge dogs, and as fierce-looking as wolves. They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones.

In fact after I EXPLAINED the plot of both Animal Farm and 1984 to them, they wrote down "suspected mental illness" in my records.

Yes I did end up with one hell of an "attitude" against them.

Wexler on the Waivers

Now that Congress has restored the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to offer waivers from rules limiting how states can use a large part of their federal child welfare funds, NCCPR has a publication detailing the potential amount of money involved for each state. The publication is available here:

CHILD WELFARE WAIVERS: THE STAKES FOR YOUR STATE
A state-by-state breakdown of the amount of federal foster care money that could be used for better alternatives if your state gets a child welfare waiver.
By Richard Wexler, NCCPR Executive Director, September 28, 201

http://www.nccpr.org/reports/waivers.pdf

The waivers allow federal money that now can be spent only on foster care to be used for better alternatives as well.

In addition, this guide looks at another issue: the amount of money that states legally, but unconscionably, take from the meager amount the federal government makes available for prevention and family preservation and divert into things like child abuse investigations and foster care.

Richard Wexler
Executive Director
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
53 Skyhill Road (Suite 202)
Alexandria VA 22314
Office: (703) 212-2006
Cell: (703) 380-4252
www.nccpr.org

I have no optimism whatsoever that anything will happen but the FRAUDULENT Organized Crime Ring will continue as if nothing happened.

GAO Releases Report on Children in Care with Incarcerated Parents

GAO Releases Report on Children in Care with Incarcerated Parents
Posted on September 28, 2011
by SuzanneCWLA

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report, “Child Welfare: More Information and Collaboration Could Promote Ties Between Foster Care Children and Their Incarcerated Parents” in response to a request by Represenatives Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Charles Rangel (D-NY). The report covers available data on the number of children in care with incarcerated parents, policies and agency strategies for improving these families’ connections, and reccomendations for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to improve assistance to agencies working with this population.  FULL STORY

Foster Parents; CPS in the news.

September 28, 2011
Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner

It is our job to keep you informed of articles of interest within the system we must serve in. Child Protective Services is frequently in the news, more and more so as time goes by more people are discovering the problems within this pathetically flawed system.

Continue reading on Examiner.com Foster Parents; CPS in the news. - National Foster Families | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/foster-families-in-national/foster-parents-cps-the-news?CID=AFRA

National Magazines Promote the UNCRC

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National Magazines Promote the UNCRC Since 37 lawmakers signed on to SR99 back in April, the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) would face a predetermined defeat if it were introduced for ratification in the U.S. Senate. But that hasn’t kept the treaty – by which nations obligate themselves to fulfill “the civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights of children” - from popping up in some generally non-political national publications in the past couple of weeks. Several of you have commented to us that the last page of a recent edition of Parents magazine includes ratification of the CRC on a 15-item “wish list” the publishers hope to see in the next 15 years. And a recent article by Alex Wolff at CNN-Sports Illustrated’s SI.com promoting sports as a means for international social change and the promotion of peace (both good things) also counts it lamentable that the U.S. has not ratified this dangerous treaty. In its online version, Parents features a simple slide-show frame (number 12 of 24) that says: “Our Wish: All countries adopt the United Nation Rights of Children (sic), which protects kids from hunger and maltreatment.” The write-up from Sports Illustrated takes the familiar tack of asserting that the U.S. is falling behind the rest of the world by not ratifying the treaty, without actually naming any benefits or pitfalls of said ratification. Readers are not supposed to question the content of the treaty or its impact on U.S law under our Constitution. The rest of the world has ratified it, so we should, too. I can still hear Mom’s response to that: “And if the rest of the world jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you want to do that, too?” Perhaps someone with connections is pushing for these mentions in unusual places. Perhaps the writers and publishers just honestly don’t know that ratifying the CRC would allow a U.N. committee to set policy that our courts would hold as binding on American families. The writers of Sports Illustrated have shown in the past an understanding that parents are generally the good guys, and that even exceptional children rarely become exceptional adults without their parents leading the way. One would suppose from the title that “Parents” would espouse that same understanding. So, we must assume these writers simply don’t know what it is they are suggesting. That being the case, here are a few things you may want to do: Action Items 1. If you subscribe to either of these magazines, consider writing a letter to the editor informing them that the CRC is not a measure that would be beneficial to children in the United States. By placing UN bureaucrats in the decision-making role currently occupied by fit parents, ratification in our country would actually be a nightmare, not a dream. (Don’t attack the entire article; our issue is just with the uninformed endorsement of CRC ratification.) You can write to these publications here: Sports Illustrated: (Quoted:) “E-mail SI at letters@SI.timeinc.com or fax SI at 212-467-2417. Letters should include the writer’s full name, address and home telephone number and may be edited for clarity and space” if selected for inclusion in their “Letters” section, which is not likely to happen in this case. Parents: Visit the CRC wish page and select “Tell Us” right after “What’s Your Wish?” Tell them you wish for adoption of the Parental Rights Amendment to protect the role of parents in the lives of their children. Please be courteous and respectful. Address the issue, don’t attack the writer! 2. If you see other such mentions in other national publications, please let us know. 3. Keep spreading the word! This treaty will not go away on its own. Those driving it in the U.S. know that if they can adopt it without the Senate – through the courts using “Customary International Law” and through the press blindly promoting it as a standard we should follow – they can still get around SR99 and win. Only the Parental Rights Amendment can protect our nation from this treaty by every route. Sincerely, Michael Ramey Director of Communications & Research

P.O. Box 1090 Purcellville, VA 20134 * (540)-751-1200 * info@parentalrights.org

Also see my editorial- "Best interest of the child- A new "Civil Right"

As for who these people are and what they are REALLY up to, see United Nations Population Fund Leader Says Family Breakdown is a Triumph for Human Rights
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
NOTE- What the Communist Manifesto has to say on the subject.  Same thing?  I certainly think so.

Foster Parents; "Back to the basics," documentation 7/9

Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner

We are talking about the how to of documentation; Let us continue now. What was that you didn’t start with number one?… FULL STORY

Mother Charged in Alleged DUI Crash that Injured 6 Kids

The driver's foster child suffered permanent damage.
KTLA News
4:57 p.m. PDT, September 27, 2011

LANCASTER, Calif. (KTLA) -- A 31-year-old mother is facing more than a dozen felony charges for allegedly DUI crash that injured six children.

Stanesha Nicole Allen pleaded not guilty Tuesday to six counts each of child abuse and child restraint law violation, and one count each of DUI causing injury and driving with a .08% blood alcohol causing injury.

The Lake Los Angeles mother was booked on felony DUI and child endangerment charges after being released from the hospital Monday night.

Bail for Allen was set at $1.7 million.

She is due back in court on Oct. 7 for a preliminary hearing.

If convicted as charged, Allen faces 19-years in state prison.

Authorities say Allen was driving a 2002 Toyota Sequoia eastbound on Avenue I near 60th Street East about 5:15 a.m. Sunday when she lost control of the vehicle and flipped it four times, officials said.

Allen had reportedly attended a wedding the night before.

She picked up the children from a babysitter that morning and was on her way home when the crash occurred, said CHP Officer Joshua Wupperfeld.

Two of the children, who range in age from 10 months to 11 years old, were partially ejected in the crash, CHP officials said.

Investigators say the younger children were improperly restrained in car seats.

Allen's 22-month old foster son suffered major head injuries.

His foot was amputated, and officials said the other would be partially amputated.

Allen's 4-year-old daughter suffered major head trauma.

The boy was in stable condition Monday, while the girl's condition was critical, CHP spokeswoman Sgt. Denise Joslin said.

The other kids, who suffered cuts and bruises, were placed in child protective custody.  As if they weren't already??

Two of the victims are Allen's biological children.

The other four are believed to be foster children.

"These are six innocent children," Wupperfeld said Sunday in a news conference.

"They were harmed because of somebody's selfish mistake."*

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-six-kids-injured-in-dui-wreck,0,2424090.story

* The CPS agents that arranged these placements SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN from their magic crystal ball (the same one they use to kidnap kids) because they "possibly might be in danger".

YOUR ThoughtCrimes

The "ThoughtCrimes" you are held accountable for

Couple who abducted 8 kids from foster care found

Police: Couple who abducted 8 kids from foster care found
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 8:53 AM EST, Tue September 27, 2011

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/justice/new-york-abduction/index.html

The comments there are extremely cruel and judgmental.

One, I just HAD to answer-

bjornberg- OK, well, we could just do it the ol fashioned way, like the nazis.

leonardofr- bjornberg- They ARE doing it like the Nazis. That's what CPS is- See Schutzhaft and as for the unconstitutional courts of NO Due Process that families have to deal with, see Volksgerichtshof

Foster Parents; "Back to the basics," documentation 6/9

Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner

We were talking about our journals and what information we will enter into them, our composition books. If another foster… FULL STORY

D.C. children needlessly taken from homes, study finds

Posted at 07:35 PM ET, 09/26/2011
D.C. children needlessly taken from homes, study finds
By Mike DeBonis
Washington Post

The District’s child welfare agency may have unnecessarily removed dozens of children from their homes in recent years, a new study concludes, “emotionally and psychologically harming both children and parents.”

The Citizens Review Panel, an independent, federally mandated oversight board, examined four years’ worth of records — 27 cases handled by the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency from 2006 to 2010, involving 41 children — where emergency powers were used to remove the children from their homes without a court order, only to be returned to those same homes within months.

Finding “too many cases of inadequate investigations and poor removal decisions,” the panel concluded that the city was “generally right to have significant concerns about that families, but .. was often wrong to conclude that removing children from their families on an emergency basis was necessary to address those concerns.” FULL STORY

Did you know?

Citizens Review Panels are in every state!
For more information, please visit:
http://www.uky.edu/SocialWork/crp

Vaccines Have Serious Side Effects - The Institute of Medicine Says So!

Posted By Dr. Mercola | September 27 2011

An Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences Committee reviewed more than 1,000 vaccine studies of eight vaccines and issued a report "Vaccine Adverse Effects: Evidence and Causality," which reveals important vaccine safety data that everyone needs to know about, especially parents.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/27/vaccines-are-dangerous-says-the-government.aspx

Not that parents really have any authority or choice.

Liberty Quotes

"The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny." -- Michael Parenti (1933- )
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Michael.Parenti.Quote.7070

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662) French mathematician and philosopher
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Blaise.Pascal.Quote.9CDB

"Terrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich." -- Leon Uris (1924-2003) American novelist Source: _Trinity, a Novel of Ireland_, 1976
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Leon.Uris.Quote.21EF

American Minute

American Minute with Bill Federer

September 27

Crying "No taxation without representation," he instigated the Stamp Act riots and the Boston Tea Party.

After the "Boston Massacre," he spread Revolutionary sentiment with his Committees of Correspondence.

Known as "The Father of the American Revolution," Samuel Adams, who was born SEPTEMBER 27, 1722, called for the first Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence.

A cousin of 2nd President John Adams, Samuel Adams wrote in The Rights of Colonists, 1772:

"Among the natural rights of Colonists are: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to defend them...

The supreme power cannot justly take from any man any part of his property without his consent."

As Massachusetts' Governor, Samuel Adams wrote to James Warren, February 12, 1779:

"A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader."

Samuel Adams ended:

"If we would enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people."

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Child and Family Services Improvment and Innovation Act Passes Congress

As we suspected-
Child and Family Services Improvment and Innovation Act Passes Congress
Posted on September 26, 2011 by SuzanneCWLA

Late last week, the Senate passed the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act (H.R. 2883). As reported, over recent weeks identical bi-partisan bills have been travelling through both sides of Congress as a result of bicameral efforts to reauthorize IV-B of the Social Security Act and take steps towards comprehensive child welfare financing reform. The Senate Finance Committee passed S. 1542 early last week, then the full House passed H.R. 2883 mid-week. Now the full Senate has passed H.R. 2883 without objection, by the voice vote process of unanimous consent.  FULL STORY

Obviously, the strident voices of America's Families don't count.

I left a comment there (subject to moderation)-

This is “The System” that lives in four year authorizat­ions by Congress. Various pieces come up for “renewal” every year, and much as we try to get this Monster defunded, the Ultimate Pork Barrel Project passes with no resistance.

Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights Associatio­n
http://fam­ilyrights.­us
“Until Every Child Comes Home”©
“The Voice of America’s Families”©

NEW Connecticut DCF Mini-Miranda Law Brochure Form

NEW Connecticut DCF Mini-Miranda Law Brochure Form
September 26, 2011

Dear Colleagues:

Connecticut DCF has finally published its compliance with PA 11-113, the so-called “DCF Mini-Miranda Law.” Please see attached. Adults who are interviewed by DCF must now be advised, in advance, that they can and should seek a lawyer prior to speaking to DCF. This will also, hopefully, help to stop secret talks with the kids in school. It will stop DCF barging into your home under veiled threats of otherwise seizing the kids.

Effective 10/1/11

I commend this to everyone for your own states. Our testimony is available if anyone so requests.

Thanx,
Mike Agranoff
attymikea@agranofflaw.com
www.agranofflaw.com

This is apparently a one-page folded brochure

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

OR ALL FOUR ON ONE PAGE (approx 280K in size)

Foster Parents; "Back to the basics," documentation 5/9

Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner

In part 4, we created a little scenario. We will come back to that later on in this class.Now let us move on to the how.. FULL STORY

FBI Steps In To Find Shanel Nadal, Woman Who Kidnapped Her Eight Children

First Posted: 9/23/11 12:07 PM ET Updated: 9/23/11 02:55 PM ET
Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/shanel-nadal-sought-after_n_977718.html

I left a nice comment there (subject to moderation)-

While I do not know enough about this case to specifical­ly advocate for this couple, I know enough about the standard generic operations of CPS to say that this case appears to be typically over-blown and absurd.

This case is a show case of WHAT'S WRONG with the entire CPS system and the lack of Constituti­onal Due Process.

That this case should now rise to the FBI becoming involved certainly adds to the Three-Ring Circus of absurdity.

Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights
http://fam­ilyrights.­us
"Until Every Child Comes Home"©
"The Voice of America's Families"©

What percentage of the children adopted receive an adoption subsidy?

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau, www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb

The AFCARS Report

Preliminary FY 2010 Estimates as of June 2011 (18)
SOURCE: Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) FY 2010 data (October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010).
-------------------------
What percentage of the children adopted receive an adoption subsidy?

Yes 90% 47,553
No 10% 5,257

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/afcars/tar/report18.htm

How many families where the children were kidnapped for POVERTY could have benefited from THAT?

Liberty Quotes

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice 1928 Source: Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Louis.Brandeis.Quote.CDBD

"The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism." -- Justice William J. Brennan (1906-1997) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Source: Brown v. Glines, 444 US 348 (1980)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Brennan.Quote.9E8D

"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't." -- Lyn Nofziger [Franklyn C. Nofziger] (1924-2006) American journalist, political consultant, author, Press Secretary for President Reagan
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Lyn.Nofziger.Quote.739A

The "Aging Out" Dilemma Plaguing the Foster Care System

Bill Baccaglini Executive Director, The New York Foundling
Huffington Post
Posted: 9/25/11 08:55 AM ET

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-baccaglini/the-aging-out-dilemma-foster-care_b_978363.html

I left a nice comment there (subject to moderation)-

At American Family Rights Associatio­n, we have a different view-

"For each child removed from an abusive home, SEVENTEEN are stolen for no good reason at all".

Then comes the character assassinat­ion done on the accused parents by the cps "investiga­tor" (validator­), where the accusation is the proof, "evidence" is created from the thin air, and EVERYBODY but the accused has immunity, even when caught bald faced lying.

Parents are held responsibl­e for "Thought Crimes"- of the CPS agent. Whatever the CPS agent IMAGINES becomes a FACT when written up in her report. The colluding mental illness clinicians write reports that have no relationsh­ip to whatever "test" the accused might have taken.

This soap opera ends up in Family Court, which is neither Criminal court, nor is it Civil court. (See http://exm­.nr/hfjvl9 ) Here, the accused enjoy none of his Constituti­onal Rights, nor Due Process.

The accused end up bankrupt, homeless, unemployed­, and unemployab­le due to being put on the state Abuser List.

The children have NO FAMILY left.

The "state as parent" (parens patriae) has been a 100% failure- because bureaucrac­y isn't good at anything.

This is "The System" that lives in four year authorizat­ions by Congress. Various pieces come up for "renewal" every year, and much as we try to get this Monster defunded, the Ultimate Pork Barrel Project passes with no resistance.

Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights Associatio­n
http://fam­ilyrights.­us
"Until Every Child Comes Home"©
"The Voice of America's Families"©

Don't Sick Your Dog On A CPS Agent - Baby LK Report For September 25th 2011

You have really GOT to see the latest
LEGALLY KIDNAPPED News

Too poor to be smart?

Exclusive: Patrice Lewis upbraids progressives who treat those in poverty like 'helpless children'
Posted: September 23, 2011 5:12 pm Eastern
Patrice Lewis © 2011

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=348105

Expert: Don't call alcoholism a 'disease'

Research should focus more on cultural and social influences rather than only biological causes, psychologist argues
By Rachael Rettner
updated 9/23/2011 11:56:50 AM ET
MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44639148/ns/health-addictions

The truth is, there's a whole BOOK FULL of these NON DISEASES (DSM) and a GREAT BIG INDUSTRY making BILLION$ from it.

Teen driving, speeding, texting

Mourning Mom: 'I Feel Like I'm Living In Hell'
Woman Talks About Losing Her Sons In Crash
POSTED: 10:21 am CDT September 16, 2011
UPDATED: 10:33 am CDT September 16, 2011
KETV.com

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- A mother calls her life a "living hell" without her two little boys. Nina McNeese's children died instantly in a head-on collision on Highway 48 south of Red Oak just after Thanksgiving last year.

The head-on crash hurt McNeese so badly that she had to relearn how to walk.

Now, McNeese is speaking out in hopes of keeping others and their children safe on the road.

....McNeese and her boys were on their way home to put up their Christmas tree, but they never made it because of a head-on collision with 18-year-old Karli Jo Brown.

Court records show Brown was traveling at 74 mph in a 55 mph zone, texting on a cellphone and passing in a No Passing zone.

McNeese was critically hurt, and her boys -- 4-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Maliki -- died on impact.

"I had to sit there, pinned underneath a freaking engine while my babies were dead. I couldn't even hold them," McNeese said.

Brown pleaded guilty last week to two counts of vehicular homicide by reckless driving.

....Brown faces up to 20 years in prison, but McNeese said that's not enough.

....McNeese wants drivers to remember to put down the phone.

"When you make these choices, there are bad consequences from them. People die," McNeese said.

Brown's attorney said it was his client's choice to plead guilty and avoid a trial.

"All she can tell me was she certainly wasn't intending on hurting anybody and deals with that every day," Seth Baldwin said.

Baldwin said his client admits speeding and passing in a No Passing zone; however, she maintains she was not texting. Investigators said cellphone records indicate otherwise.

Read more: http://www.ketv.com/news/29205424/detail.html

As an old daddy, I know all about this teen girl arrogance. She even tried to LIE her way out of it after it happened.  And there is NOTHING you are allowed to do about it.

Liberty Quotes

American Minute with Bill Federer

September 25

"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Thus began the first of the Ten Amendments, or Bill of Rights, which were approved SEPTEMBER 25, 1789.

"The Father of the Bill of Rights" was George Mason of Virginia.

When George Washington was chosen as Commander of the Continental Army, George Mason was drafted by Virginia to fill his place in the Continental Congress.

George Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights from which Jefferson drew from to write the Declaration of Independence.

George Mason was one of 55 founders who wrote the U.S. Constitution, but was one of the few who refused to sign it because it did not end the slave trade and did not put enough limits on the Federal Government's power.

George Mason joined with Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams to prevent the Constitution from being ratified, as the abuses of King George III's concentrated power were still fresh in their minds.

It was largely through George Mason's insistence that in the first session of Congress ten limitations or "Amendments" were put on the new Federal Government.

George Mason suggested the wording of the First Amendment be:

"All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others."

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Nobody

AFRA EDITORIALS By Leonard Henderson

September 24, 2011

Nobody

Nobody argues with me any more

Nobody has tried to tell me I am WRONG for years.

Nobody has called me crazy lately.

Nobody has called me an idiot lately.

Nobody has tried to explain to me lately where and how I have been deceived.

I leave comments on news stories all over the country, and the only disagreements I get there is from the communists doing their nasty Alinsky name-calling routine. I have been BANNED in a few places and a few rags refuse to publish me.

Over the past 10 years, I have compiled tons of generic legal information that can prove to be usefuland correct in court and expose CPS as the RAPACIOUS WOLVES and TOTALLY INSANE PATHOLOGICAL LIARS they are.

NOBODY but Children's Protective Services seems to think that's a bad thing.

---

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." --Aesop (c. 550 B.C.) legendary Greek fabulist

If CPS hasn't attacked YOUR FAMILY yet, see If you are ever approached by anyone from social services.... and WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU
Learn as much as you can, as fast as you can at How To Fight CPS

Get YOUR VERSION OF HISTORY ON THE RECORD with your Sworn Declaration

Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights Association
http://familyrights.us
"Until Every Child Comes Home" ©
"The Voice of America's Families" ©

I am not a lawyer and I do not pretend to give legal advice. If you need legal advice, see AFRA's Lawyer Friends who certainly are not pretenders http://familyrights.us/info/law) I merely relate the things I learned in the past that seemed to work in my own case or things that others have related to me that worked in their cases. I provide information for free and do not expect to receive any form of payment or reward on this side of heaven. Therefore, DO NOT rely on this information as legal advice. Real Legal advice would come from a real lawyer who hates CPS and prepares a VIGOROUS DEFENSE against a negative (proving nothing happened) instead of talking you into a plea bargain (http://familyrights.us/bin/The_Problem_with_Plea_Bargaining.htm)

AFRA Editorials are NOT copyrighted. Please feel free to forward widely. We are at 100% total complete WAR with CPS, not trying to be famous or important.

Two Words You Should Never Utter to Your Doctor

The minute these two words are heard, these thugs of the doctors, the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA are contacted - and you& can be automatically charged with child abuse and medical neglect.
Posted By Dr. Mercola | September 24 2011

You may recognize Jim Navarro from the documentary film Cut Poison Burn, which I recently posted. You can watch the entire film for free. If you haven't seen it yet, I urge you to take the time to view it now.

Jim is the father of Thomas Navarro, who at the age of four was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a type of brain cancer. The family ended up in a protracted battle against the medical monopoly after objecting to the conventional treatment, choosing instead to seek out less invasive, less damaging, and less life threatening approaches. However, the medical system's response was swift and callous.

In fact, in the months that followed Thomas' diagnosis, the family went into hiding to keep their son away from the authorities who threatened to take him into custody, charging Jim and Donna Navarro with child abuse and neglect.

The Navarro's wanted to use Dr. Burzynski's non-toxic, highly successful antineoplaston treatment instead of conventional chemotherapy and radiation. However, the FDA went to great lengths to prevent Thomas from receiving the therapy, and only after extensive legal wrangling, great expense, and being forced to submit to conventional treatment first did the family finally receive approval to use Dr. Burzynski. Unfortunately, at that point it was too late. The damage from the chemo was too great, and he lost his battle with cancer at the tender age of six. His death certificate states the cause of death as:

Respiratory failure due to chronic toxicity of chemotherapy

....Who Decides What's Best and Right for You or Your Child?

This kind of perversion of justice poses as the best care available. And there are four primary organizations that are responsible for this travesty: the FDA, the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, and the child services system. These are the white-collar bureaucrats making life and death decisions about people they've never met or cared for in a medical capacity. Their primary objective is to protect the profits of Big Pharma and the cancer industry itself.

Navarro describes the Child Protective Services (CPS) as "the thugs of the doctors, the pharmaceutical companies, and the FDA," and it's easy to see why, when you hear his story.

"When we began, we were completely uncomfortable with everything and we wanted a second opinion. The minute those words are heard: 'second opinion,' CPS is brought into it," he explains. "You're charged with child abuse and medical neglect automatically. The charges go up from there depending on your level of resistance. They will kick in your door; come in armed. They will attempt to kidnap your child, which we had gone through several times with Thomas. By any means necessary they will get your child.

Lots more in the FULL STORY

American Minute

American Minute with Bill Federer

September 24

"The power to tax is the power to destroy," wrote John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was born SEPTEMBER 24, 1755.

No one had a greater impact on Constitutional Law than John Marshall.

Sworn in February 4, 1801, Marshall served 34 years and helped write over 1,000 decisions, including supporting the Cherokee Indian nation to stay in Georgia.

During the Revolution, John Marshall fought under Washington and endured the freezing winter at Valley Forge.

The Liberty Bell, according to tradition, cracked tolling at John Marshall's funeral, July 8, 1835.

Chief Justice John Marshall wrote to Jasper Adams, May 9, 1833:

"The American population is entirely Christian, and with us Christianity and Religion are identified.

It would be strange indeed, if with such a people, our institutions did not presuppose Christianity and did not often refer to it and exhibit relations with it."

A hundred years after John Marshall's death, the Supreme Court Building was completed in 1935.

Herman A. MacNeil's marble relief above the east portico prominently features Moses in the center with two stone tablets.

John Marshall's image is among the 18 lawgivers throughout history, along with Moses holding the Hebrew tablets, depicted by sculptor Adolph A. Weinman in marble friezes on the north and south walls of Courtroom in the U.S. Supreme Court building.

Every Supreme Court session opens with the invocation:

"God save the United States and this Honorable Court."

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Wexler- Financial incentives in foster care: WE’VE GOT WAIVERS!

NOTE:  Judging from this story, S. 1542 apparently passed today.


Friday, September 23, 2011
by Richard Wexler

Financial incentives in foster care: WE’VE GOT WAIVERS!

Legislation that marks the biggest change for the better in federal child welfare law in 31 years has passed both houses of Congress and is on its way to President Obama.

“Biggest change for the better in federal child welfare policy” is, of course, a pretty low bar, particularly since almost every other change since 1980 has been for the worse. But this legislation has the potential to make a real difference– if states can be persuaded to embrace it.

That’s because the legislation includes a provision restoring the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to issue waivers from federal foster care funding restrictions, waivers like the one which allowed Florida to make dramatic improvements in its child welfare system.

The bill was sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and in the House by Reps. Geoff Davis (R-Kentucky) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas).

But special credit also goes to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) who withdrew last-minute amendments to tack on his own proposal. That easily could have delayed and possibly killed the waivers and the entire bill – which also includes reauthorization of key prevention and family preservation programs.

In a field where everybody says they put the children first, Sen. Wyden really did it; putting personal pride in his own bill aside in order to get the very important legislation through.

So, the waivers soon will be law. Then comes the hard part – persuading states to break their addiction to foster care “entitlement” funding and apply for waivers – in particular big, broad waivers like the one that did so much for Florida.

That was made harder by a series of hoops states will have to jump through to qualify for waivers, provisions added in the Senate at the behest of a child welfare establishment that never really liked the waivers – or anything else that limits the foster care “entitlement.”

So we’ve won a big battle. But it’s a long war.

Posted by National Coalition for Child Protection Reform at 2:51 PM

Yeah. I remember in 2008, all sorts of wonderful things were supposed to come from Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act.  The actual upshot is, some big piece of the huge system just got reauthorized for another 4 years of terrorizing America's families. These vague promises of "improvement" are nothing but a Carrot on a Stick. I am consistent- I just want to shut down all the money going into this nightmare.  Problem solved.

The Playground at CPS

Jaycee Dugard Sues Feds Over Her Kidnapping and Imprisonment

By Kevin Fayle on September 23, 2011 1:56 PM
FindLaw

Jaycee Dugard, the woman kidnapped as a child by convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and imprisoned for 18 years, has filed a lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act seeking damages for the federal government's allegedly negligent handling of Garrido's parole.

http://blogs.findlaw.com/courtside/2011/09/jaycee-dugard-sues-feds-over-her-kidnapping-and-imprisonment.html

This should be expanded to include the THOUSANDS of kids kidnapped by CPS who got the crap raped out of them in CPS custody.

Pit bull attacks CPS worker

Man sustains injuries to face, arm
Published 11:11am Friday, September 23, 2011
Irontron Tribune

MILLER, Ohio — A worker from Lawrence County Child Protective Services was injured on the job when a dog attacked him Thursday afternoon.

Ron James was checking on the welfare of children in a household in Miller when the animal, a pit bull mix, attacked him around 2 p.m., Sheriff Jeff Lawless said.

James, who sustained injuries to his arm and face, sought medical attention at a hospital but was not taken by ambulance, Lawless said.

The dog warden was called and the dog will likely be quarantined while officials determine if the animal has had vaccinations, the sheriff said.

The sheriff said there is a possibility that the owners will face criminal charges, either for the well-being of the children or for the dog attack.

http://www.irontontribune.com/2011/09/23/pit-bull-attacks-cps-worker/

They have a comments section there, but I do NOT dare say there what I really think about it-

One bad "judge" down. Thousands left to go.

Former Luzerne judge Conahan sentenced to 17.5 years
STAFF REPORTPublished: September 23, 2011
Times-Tribune, Pennsylvania

Former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison this morning in the kids-for-cash case.

He was also fined $20,100 and ordered to pay $874,000 in restitution.

Conahan pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy for accepting $2.8 million from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit detention centers that housed county juvenile offenders. He faced maximum sentence of 20 years.

Read more: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/former-luzerne-judge-conahan-sentenced-to-17-5-years-1.1207994

These "courts" are the AMERICAN version of the Volksgerichtshof [I'm guessing, because I can't find it, the pronunciation may be "volks-garish-awff"]

The People's Court (German: Volksgerichtshof) was a court established in 1934 by German dictator Adolf Hitler, who had been dissatisfied with the outcome of the Reichstag Fire Trial (all but one of the accused were acquitted). The "People's Court" was set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law. The court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of "political offenses"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksgerichtshof

Congress Nearing Appropriations Deadline

YaMinco | September 23, 2011 at 12:56 PM
CWLA Children's Monitor

With the beginning of the new fiscal year just a away, Congress will not have time to complete action on all twelve appropriations bills, and will have to approve a short term continuing resolution (CR) in the meantime. Both chambers have worked on the various bills in some capacity, and earlier this week, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FY12 Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill, which allocates spending for discretionary health and child welfare programs and the agencies that oversee these programs. While most programs were flat funded, there were slight increases for the Promise Neighborhoods community transformation program and Head Start. Unfortunately, the bill included a $50 million cut to the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant. The accompanying report language points to future increases in the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, as offsets for reductions in Title V funding. The bill also confirms the elimination of the Mentoring Children of Prisoners program from FY 2011.

The House Appropriations Committee has postponed action on this bill, and it remains unclear when they plan to take up the measure. Congress will likely spend next week finalizing a CR that will temporarily fund these programs at their current levels and prevent a government shutdown.

http://childrensmonitor.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/congress-nearing-appropriations-deadline

Foster Parents; "Back to the basics," documentation 4/9

Marilyn Harrison, Foster Families Examiner

We have learned what the word documentation means, however, if someone mentions this word to you and does not show you how to do it… FULL STORY

Founders Quotes

"There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue." --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 35, 1788

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Liberty Quotes

"This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." -- David Rockefeller (1915- ) Internationalist billionaire, CFR kingpin, founder of the Trilateralist Commission, World Order Godfather Source: Sept. 23, 1994
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/David.Rockefeller.Quote.B72F

"There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world." -- George W. Bush (1946- ) 43rd US President, Yale Skull & Bones Society
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Bush.Quote.136C

"O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!" -- Madame Jeanne-Marie Roland (1754-1793) Source: November 8, 1793, her last words before being executed on the guillotine, quoted in Alphonse de Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jeanne-Marie.Roland.Quote.2C89

New Report Links Recession to Increase in Child Abuse

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Children's Monitor

On Monday, Sept. 18th the Associated Press (AP) reported on new research released in Pediatrics that links the recession with an increase in abusive head trauma (AHT) among children under the age of one year old. The report adds to a growing body of research on the link between economic downturns and increases in child abuse in the United States.

The study examined counties in regions of Western Pennsylvania, Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky and the Seattle metropolitan area and included a review of 422 cases of AHT between 2004 and 2009, predominantly involving children from low-income homes. The study found that cases of abusive head trauma increased 65% from pre-recession years to the recession years of late 2007 through 2009.

The characteristics of the victims abused during that time period experienced little change. The average age of the children, the morality rate, the percent receiving public insurance, and the number of children with siblings in the home all remained relatively stable. According to the study’s authors the small level of change in characteristics and demographics of children abused contrasted with the large increase of cases indicates that the recession was a societal-risk factor that increased the risk for everyone. Mark Rank, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, cited in an interview with AP the combination of the stress of raising a young child with wage cuts or job loss, as factors for potential violence.

The study’s authors hope that their research will aid in provoking a policy discussion on the specific stressors and mediating factors related to AHT, stating that “the greatest improvement in a populations health care are likely to derive from social interventions.”

http://childrensmonitor.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/new-report-links-recession-to-increase-in-child-abuse

I left a nice comment there (subject to moderation- and I think I am banned there)

Am i understanding this correctly? Job loss and financial stress is statistically shown to increase parental frustrations, resulting in abusing the children.

I am a tad concerned what the sentence- “the greatest improvement in a populations health care are likely to derive from social interventions.” – means.

I suspect it does NOT mean JOBS for unemployed parents.