Foster Children Doped into Compliance
[Oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt but to submission --Simone Weil]
It appears not only are states rewarded with incentives when they turn a blind eye to potentially life threatening physical risks to children in foster care (see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13304867/); They are also given incentives when they request and administer psychotropic drugs to the very children that they have emotionally tormented and tortured by “removing” them from their families. Just to make sure that you understand me, let me rephrase. The state, with its Absolute Power, can remove a child from family and everyone and everything he holds near and dear … place the child in the home of strangers … and tell the child that he will never see his Mom, Dad, siblings, neighbors, and friends UNLESS his parents do everything they are told. And when the child negatively responds, naturally, to the social workers perceived threats by exhibiting signs of ‘extreme’ stress … i.e. misbehaving or simply having a “bad attitude,” the state can then turn to our government and request federal money to treat the “troubled” child with mind altering drugs. Most troubling, California and other states do not attempt to track the number of children given these drugs or if the drugs were needed to begin with. As with most things dealing with Foster Care, there are no checks and balances in place … so this too is riddled with abuse! For actual accounts of foster children forced to take Paxil, an anti-depressant, and other drugs to include Zoloff, and Resperdal, please read the news account linked to this letter.
In California when then Senator Dick Mountjoy introduced a bill which would have required the Department of Social Services to “study the administration of these drugs” being given to foster children, the bill was vehemently opposed by no other than … the California Psychiatric Association! As a matter of fact, California Rules of Court allow group homes to act as “mental health experts.” Rule 1432.5 states: “once a child is declared a dependent child of the court and is removed from the custody of the parents or guardian, only a juvenile officer is authorized to make orders regarding the administration of psychotropic medication to the child.” However, any parent that has lost a child to this corrupt and crooked system will tell you that prior to receiving the child’s complete medical history, the juvenile court Judge will agree with the social workers “professional” recommendation and subsequently issue an order that “while placed out of home, the social worker will ensure that the child receives medical care as needed …” And when a nine-year-old child, who has never spent the night away from home … and still crawls into bed most nights with his mom, shows signs of extreme stress and anxiety, the average social worker who has little to no training in medicine, pharmacology, psychiatry, or chemistry … is allowed to administer these drugs to a dependent “with or without court authorization or court delegation of authority to a parent.”
If you are wondering why dedicated, caring and concerned, social workers paid to “protect” children would engage in this gross injustice … let me share another interesting fact with you. Group homes are given anywhere between $2,000 - $6,000 plus PER FOSTER CHILD! The actual amount depends on the different types of meds they take – this is the reason child “welfare” workers are quick to label a child “troubled.” For each state, Foster Care is a BIG MONEY BUSINESS!!!
For more information and to see how children are punished, illegally might I add, for refusing the meds, click on this articles title.
TMajor
Mom victimized by
Child Protective Services Laws
If you believe that foster care should be reserved for children that are orphaned, or have TRULY been abandoned by their parents and ALL extended family members; If you believe that children in foster care should actually be victims of abuse and/or neglect, once proven by a judge and jury NOT a social worker with a God complex; If you believe in the Constitution and civil rights for all, no matter what their economic, social, or cultural group may be – Please sign the petitions referenced at www.squidoo.com/abolishcps/ (scroll down to Get Involved!!!). Thank you in advance for your participation!
It appears not only are states rewarded with incentives when they turn a blind eye to potentially life threatening physical risks to children in foster care (see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13304867/); They are also given incentives when they request and administer psychotropic drugs to the very children that they have emotionally tormented and tortured by “removing” them from their families. Just to make sure that you understand me, let me rephrase. The state, with its Absolute Power, can remove a child from family and everyone and everything he holds near and dear … place the child in the home of strangers … and tell the child that he will never see his Mom, Dad, siblings, neighbors, and friends UNLESS his parents do everything they are told. And when the child negatively responds, naturally, to the social workers perceived threats by exhibiting signs of ‘extreme’ stress … i.e. misbehaving or simply having a “bad attitude,” the state can then turn to our government and request federal money to treat the “troubled” child with mind altering drugs. Most troubling, California and other states do not attempt to track the number of children given these drugs or if the drugs were needed to begin with. As with most things dealing with Foster Care, there are no checks and balances in place … so this too is riddled with abuse! For actual accounts of foster children forced to take Paxil, an anti-depressant, and other drugs to include Zoloff, and Resperdal, please read the news account linked to this letter.
In California when then Senator Dick Mountjoy introduced a bill which would have required the Department of Social Services to “study the administration of these drugs” being given to foster children, the bill was vehemently opposed by no other than … the California Psychiatric Association! As a matter of fact, California Rules of Court allow group homes to act as “mental health experts.” Rule 1432.5 states: “once a child is declared a dependent child of the court and is removed from the custody of the parents or guardian, only a juvenile officer is authorized to make orders regarding the administration of psychotropic medication to the child.” However, any parent that has lost a child to this corrupt and crooked system will tell you that prior to receiving the child’s complete medical history, the juvenile court Judge will agree with the social workers “professional” recommendation and subsequently issue an order that “while placed out of home, the social worker will ensure that the child receives medical care as needed …” And when a nine-year-old child, who has never spent the night away from home … and still crawls into bed most nights with his mom, shows signs of extreme stress and anxiety, the average social worker who has little to no training in medicine, pharmacology, psychiatry, or chemistry … is allowed to administer these drugs to a dependent “with or without court authorization or court delegation of authority to a parent.”
If you are wondering why dedicated, caring and concerned, social workers paid to “protect” children would engage in this gross injustice … let me share another interesting fact with you. Group homes are given anywhere between $2,000 - $6,000 plus PER FOSTER CHILD! The actual amount depends on the different types of meds they take – this is the reason child “welfare” workers are quick to label a child “troubled.” For each state, Foster Care is a BIG MONEY BUSINESS!!!
For more information and to see how children are punished, illegally might I add, for refusing the meds, click on this articles title.
TMajor
Mom victimized by
Child Protective Services Laws
If you believe that foster care should be reserved for children that are orphaned, or have TRULY been abandoned by their parents and ALL extended family members; If you believe that children in foster care should actually be victims of abuse and/or neglect, once proven by a judge and jury NOT a social worker with a God complex; If you believe in the Constitution and civil rights for all, no matter what their economic, social, or cultural group may be – Please sign the petitions referenced at www.squidoo.com/abolishcps/ (scroll down to Get Involved!!!). Thank you in advance for your participation!
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