Child Protection Services and Department of Human Services (A Broken System Part Duex)

I have wondered for a long time... why is it that children are taken away from good families all the time and yet the people who are actually beating children bloody- breaking bones- raping them- those are the people who are allowed to keep their children?

When I was a teenager I was placed in a foster home.  I do not know what agency ran it. It was a long time ago.  My foster parents were church going people.  They were farmers and all in all decent people.  HOWEVER, they did employ a hired hand.  I was 15- he had the bedroom upstairs next to mine, and he was on his own account a child molester.  He bragged to me many times in the barn about sleeping with the other girls that had been before me.  Being afraid of my stern foster parents, I said nothing.  I should have said something.  Had my mother not raised me with a half a brain- I probably would have been his next victim.  I instead locked my door each night and pretended I was asleep when he knocked in the early morning hours.

My own daughter is now looking at possible foster care.  This terrifies me greatly.  This puts her deeper into a system that I believe is undeniably BROKEN.  Who will protect her if I am not there?  She is only a child- not even a teenager as I was.

I have seen CPS/DHS take children away from good parents.  I have seen abusers have their children returned to them time and again.  I know of children personally who were potty trained when they were taken by CPS and returned with issues as if they had never been trained at all... some of them were over the age of 8.

My children are blond hair and blue eyes... according this article the most sought after children by CPS to take are.
http://techiesgofarming.org/2013/04/27/children-being-kidnapped-by-cps-for-adoption-bonus-money/

Sites like this make me sick... it's like looking at a mall for a new shirt... only it's kids.  What I want you to notice is this is another site entirely- this one "advertising children".  Please notice that children are listed as Caucasian.  But if they have blond hair and blue eyes- that is noted... so do the other children have green eyes and dark hair?  I think this just reinforces that our blond hair and blue eye babies are more desirable and salable to CPS/DHS
https://sites.google.com/a/fcjfs.org/fcjfs/waiting-children


CPS a friend of the court not the family.  The sound is not great... but I think it gets the point across well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arVPZHgTcmA

Valley News Live... My thoughts this evening.

Valley News Live Posted this on their Facebook page today.

http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/24568086/buried-fire-hydrants-are-a-real-concern-for-local-fire-departments

I was reading a lot of the comments... and I was surprised by how many took a complacent attitude about the fire hydrants in Fargo-Moorhead being buried by snow.

Has society really become so lazy that they just "expect" someone else should take care of it?
Has society really become so self-entitled they can really believe it's not their problem?

This is a terrifying thought to me!

Some said that "prisoners should do it."

Prisoners could do it- I suppose....

But do you realize if it's in your yard in the summer- it's your job to mow around it too... so perhaps this job lands on the homeowners living on that lot???? 

I also think the response of, "it's the city's job....." is ridiculous.

As far as it being the city's job.. seriously- they don't mow the boulevard in front of your home- in fact they (the city workers) bury it in snow every winter too..... if you want it beautified or useful... you do it. 

The fire hydrant problem could also be solved on a rotation basis between all neighbors in a 6 house circumference?

I for one can't afford to take a $150,000 loss on my home (not to mention my family's belongings) just because, "the city should take care of it."

So I dig out the one closest to my home regularly, much to the chagrin of the homeowner on that lot- they DO NOT like me walking along "their yard" to shovel it out.  I like to think that IF their home should ever catch on fire- that they will appreciate the work- albeit too late.

But you know shoveling it out isn't the only problem... they also tend to freeze closed... I can't imagine worse than your house being on fire- the firefighters waste precious time shoveling it out... find out it's frozen and have to shovel out the next closest one too BEFORE they can ever get to your home.... take the preventative measure... clear out the one closest to you.

In our area- we tend to be very cold... and this year- about 6 blizzards in as many weeks with up to -60 windchill temps.... I don't blame the fire department for not wanting to shovel in that- and if you feel it's their job- perhaps they feel like you should put out your own fire.... and they won't have to freeze.  I bet you don't like that option now do you?