Family Rights and Child Abuse News

Our grandchildren were stolen by DHS and adopted away from us!

by John Buethe

This is not an isolated incident, it happens all across our country. Our grandchildren we stolen by DHS and adopted away from us!

We are just not understanding why it is that a grandmother known as Rose Lucas can get the attention of a state Senator, who helped her to get her grandchildren back from DHS. Yes, we don't know the circumstances of her case but we do know the facts of ours.

National Writers Syndicate

August 20, 2008

Don't overreact to the Brewer tragedy

The government has a responsibility to protect children when their families can't. It seems so simple, until it has to be done.

Certainly, there are times when the government must intervene to deal with abuse or neglect. But removing a child should generally be seen as the last resort. When agencies focus too heavily on foster-care placement, they risk not only overburdening staff, but also losing perspective on what ensuring family well-being really means.

Newsday

August 10, 2008

Homeschooling gets green light from court

by Bob Unruh

An appeals court in California has ruled that state law does permit homeschooling as a species of private school education but that statutory permission for parents to teach their own children could be overridden in order to protect the safety of a child.

The long-awaited case resolves many of the questions that had developed in homeschooling circles across the nation when the same court earlier found that parents had no such rights - statutorily or constitutionally - in California.

World Net Daily (CA)

August 08, 2008

State requests foster care for 8 FLDS children

Texas child welfare officials on Tuesday asked a court to order foster care for eight children at a polygamous compound, saying their mothers have refused to limit the children's contact with men suspected of being involved in underage marriages.

Child Protective Services officials also asked the court to end cases for 32 children after finding no evidence that their families engaged in underage marriages. The agency has been investigating the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado since April, when it raided the compound and seized more than 400 children on allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

CNN

August 05, 2008

Dying in Arkansas Foster Care

by Ebone' Mone't

Currently Arkansas Department of Human Services is investigating four child deaths. Each of the four children died in the last two months. This happened after years of no foster child deaths in the state.

Delancy was one of 9,000 kids living in foster care in Arkansas. She says her experience was mostly bad. "I've been raped in one foster home. I've been beaten in the other one; I've been starved in one," describes Delancy.

THV

August 05, 2008