Watch This Video Posted 3/16/07BAKERSFIELD – A Tehachapi family is outraged Friday night after finding bruises on their little girl when she was returned to them from a foster home.The 2-year-old toddler was placed with her grandmother earlier this week after Child Protective Services found bruising on the girl during a foster home visit last […]
We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition: We are asking For: Victims of Child Welfare Memorial Day Target: George W. Bush & Richard B. Cheney, President & Vice President, The White HouseSponsor: Suncana Sesic Alvarado, Voice For Children Signatures: 877 Goal: 5,000 Deadline: Ongoing… See Full Petition Email this Petition To: OUR Government and Child […]
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a traumatic event. A traumatic event is a life-threatening event such as military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood. Most survivors of trauma return to normal given a […]
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On Jan. 22, 2003, FRONTLINE, in collaboration with Columbia University’s School of Social Work and its Institute for Child and Family Policy, convened two panels of national experts at Columbia’s Alfred Lerner Hall to talk about the child welfare system and, more specifically, foster care. FRONTLINE’s “Failure to Protect?: A National Dialogue” — co-produced with […]
Missing German Shepard Needs Your Help Angel has been Missing Since 3/5/2007 Lost ID: 375592 Microchip: 4307067E69 Pet Name:Angel Last known major crossroads: NC Hwy 710 and Prospect Road, Pembroke, NC I was told that she was last seen with another German Shepard in a field going towards the town of Lumberton, NC.She may have […]
If this isn’t ever the truth! In the end it hurts the Children! Children absorb their environment even at ages so young they can’t talk yet. Domestic violence abusers often includes use the system as their weapon। of the time the abusers do this, they get away with it with the assistance of judicial officials […]
Texas State Comptroller “They are everybody’s children, and nobody’s children.They are the forgotten children in the Texas foster care system. This report gives these children a voice.”2002 – 44 kids in DPRS care died2003 – 30 kids in DPRS care died2005 – 48 kids in DPRS care died Former Pharmaceutical Rep talks about overmedication in […]
I told Mommy that each time I go home from a visit I just scream at my foster Mom.“Because each time she walks in, its not you, Mommy”So I scream. I scream and I scream.Really I wish I didn’t cause I only makes things worse, and making this foster mom mad is bad news. I […]
(Source:Connecticut DCF Watch) Please take and have a moment of silence for the children below, and pray for these brave children that have given their all in this war. All of these deaths have happened with the support of your tax dollars, and after much protest and begging the government for help in stopping this. […]
Repulsive mess in Kentucky Sadistic and criminal aren’t words usually associated with social workers. But they come to mind while reading the results of a yearlong investigation into a Kentucky child-protection bureaucracy that was allowed to go rogue. Social workers gave each other nicknames like “The Queen of Removal” and “Terminator” and laughed as they […]
The Ninth Amendment acknowledged the prior existence of fundamental rights with it: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” The United States Supreme Court in a long line of decisions, has recognized that matters involving marriage, procreation, and the parent-child relationship […]
The following Supreme Court decisions were cited in a published opinion by Chief judge Norman K. Moon of Court of Appeals of Virginia June 3, 1997 in the case Williams and Williams v. Williams and Williams 24 Va. App. 778; 485 S.E. 2d 651 (June 3, 1997): Even when blood relationships are strained, parents retain […]
U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS Our legal minds will put the cites below to good use. Please feel free to share them with your attorney. For future reference, these are being added to the ACFC legal cites page. – ACFC Loss of First Amendment Freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury. Though […]
Where certain “fundamental rights” are involved, the Court has held that regulation limiting these rights may be justified only by a “compelling state interest,” Kramer v. Union Free School District, 395 U.S. 621, 627 (1969); Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U.S. 618, 634 (1969), Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398, 406 (1963), and that legislative enactments […]
…Several decisions of this Court make clear that freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life is one of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, 12; Griswold v. Connecticut, supra; Pierce v. Society of Sisters, supra; Meyer v. Nebraska, supra. […]
U.S. Supreme Court COOPER v. AARON, 358 U.S. 1 (1958) 358 U.S. 1 COOPER ET AL., MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, ET AL. v. AARON ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Fn No. 1. Argued September 11, 1958. […]
Concentrated Tylenol Infants’ Drops Plus Cold & Cough, right, and Pedia Care Infant Drops Long-Acting Cough, left, is shown in a medicine cabinet of the home of Carol Uyeno in Palo Alto, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. Cold Drug makers voluntarily pulled cold medicines targeted for babies and toddlers off the market Thursday, leaving […]
