Were the 1990's the Unfortunate Turning Point of the Child Protective AGENCIES??

To All who believe that Our Families, Our Children are Our Future.

I often remind others that the Child Protective AGENCY was created in 1974 by the Mondale Act, and were given these two Major Responsibilites:

• Protecting Children
• Strengthening Families

Noting that there was no particular Priority on which was more important.

In this particular blog and for further reading and understanding, here are Four major Topics and/or Documents:
 1. Family Preservation vs Foster Care
 2. Child Protection at the Crossroads:
       Child Abuse, Child Protection, and Recommendations for Reform (03/31/1998)
 3. Model State Legislation -Parental Due Process Act
  4. Know Thy Enemy

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Issue Papers from NCCPR Family Preservation vs Foster Care

Introduction

"..For decades, politicians and self-proclaimed "child advocates" have suggested an answer that is simple, obvious--and wrong. They blame "family preservation." Or they blame a federal law that required states and localities to make "reasonable efforts" to keep families together. Or they blame both..."Read More

 1. Foster Care vs. Family Preservation: The Track Record on Safety

2. Foster Care Panics

3. They “Erred on the Side of the Child” — Case Histories

4. Emotional Abuse

5. Who is in “The System”

6. Child Abuse and Poverty

7. Child Welfare and Race

8. The Real Reasons for Child Abuse Deaths

9. The Unreasonable Assault on “Reasonable Efforts”

10. What is “Family Preservation?”

11. Does Family Preservation Work?

12. Financial Incentives

13. Family Preservation and Substance Abuse

14. Family Preservation and Adoption

15. Just Say No to the Orphanage

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Child Protection at the Crossroads:Child Abuse, Child Protection, and Recommendations for Reform (03/31/1998)

The United States has had federally mandated child-protection laws for over a quarter of a century. Since these mandates have been in effect, child maltreatment rates have increased tremendously and child- protection agencies’ ability to handle the increase has declined:§  When CAPTA was enacted in 1973.  

• Child-protection agencies handled about 60,000 reports of abuse and neglect; today they handle 3 million.

•  Substantiation rates have plummeted from a high of 61 percent in 1976 to a current low of 31 percent.

• Early estimates on confirmed abuse and neglect, while far from exact, ranged from 6,500 in 1967 to 360,000 in 1974. 

One of the Many Suggested Reforms: Repeal mandatory reporting laws that are in effect in all the states.

 "...Mandatory reporting laws, designed to encourage those who work with children to report incidents of maltreatment, have served their intended purpose of raising public awareness and have had unintended consequences. These laws create two negative effects. First, they encourage unnecessary reporting because professionals must report all of their suspicions under threat of prosecution. While such prosecutions are rare, one should not have to report suspicions. Reporting should be restricted to more concrete evidence of a crime...." Read More

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 Model State Legislation -Parental Due Process Act

The model legislation was written by a team of attorneys at Pacific Justice Institute http://www.pacificjustice.org/ in Sacramento California.

However, it never made it through the committee. Still I urge everyone to get involved with their Legislators, and hopefully, have them use part or all of this for a bill proposal in Your State. (Side Note: Express Yourself and take Our Parent Survey)

A BILL

To protect the fundamental due process rights of a parent

in proceedings to terminate parental rights.
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 Know Thy Enemy

The following is from 2 posts in my “Reform for Our Families” Blog from Dec. 2010. Two
major topics were discussed: (For further reading do Download the files at the end of this
document.)
 

         1. Plan to eliminate Child Abuse
         2. Court Training for the agents of our Child Protective Agencies.
 

Both are probably concerns for many. However, in the realm of “Due Process” is the Truth
of abuse being fairly represented? (Download File)

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