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).
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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.

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"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.