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CPS is Trying to Terminate my Parental Rights! What Happens Now? (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion about what happens when CPS tries to terminate your parental rights, and what you can do about it. In our previous article we looked at what your first steps should be when CPS threatened to take your children (or even if they already have!)…
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CPS is Trying to Terminate my Parental Rights! What Happens Now? (Pt 1)
Having a CPS worker show up at your house is very scary. Having them decide to take your kids away and place them in foster care is terrifying. But finding out that CPS is trying to terminate your parental rights has got to be one of the worst feelings a parent could ever experience. So…
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What Gives CPS Workers The Right to Take Kids Away From Their Parents?
Have you ever asked yourself, or someone else, this question? Have you ever wondered how, or why, CPS has the right to just step in and literally tear families apart with no regard for the long term consequences, or the possible effects on those people’s lives? How can they take those kids away from the…
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Is Mandatory Reporting Destroying Michigan’s Families?
Reporting something to CPS essentially means that if you “see something, say something”. It’s the idea that if you witness, or even suspect that a child is being abused or neglected, you should report that to CPS so that they can investigate it. Mandatory reporting, on the other hand, is a little different. This is…
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The CPS Cycle: Do Kids in The System Become Parents in The System?
Foster care, while serving a very important need in communities across the country, also puts children in a very difficult position. Removing them from the caregivers they’ve always known, undermining stability and breaking up families, kids in foster care have been shown to struggle with vastly increased mental health and behavioral issues. And that shouldn’t…
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Reaching Out For Help Sometimes Results in Being Reported to CPS!
Parenting is hard. Everyone who has ever raised a child knows that. And it’s even harder if you try to do it alone. However, for many people, reaching out for help when it comes to parenting our children and keeping them safe and cared for, can actually make things worse. How is that possible, you…
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One Single Incident Can Result in Long-Term CPS Involvement
Life is full of choices, and every single one of them has a consequence. Some of those consequences are tiny, and the impact they’ll have on your life in the long term are negligible, like cheating on your diet by eating a handful of chips. It may derail your weight loss for a day, but…
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CPS And Your Narcissistic Spouse: Should You be Worried About False Claims of Abuse?
Being married to a narcissist is a scary reality for a surprising number of people. The gaslighting, the lies, the manipulation. It can be a terrifying situation, and many people feel trapped in those relationships. And what makes it even worse is that so few other people can see what you see. Narcissists are usually…
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Involving Your Kids in Criminal Activity Might Cost You Your Parenting Rights in Michigan!
The idea of involving your children in criminal activity might sound strange to many parents, but believe it or not it happens. And some parents don’t even realize that what they’re doing is wrong, and could cost them their families! Teaching a child to slip a pair of earrings you can’t afford into their underwear…
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Are Michigan’s in-Home Foster Care Prevention Efforts Failing Vulnerable Kids?
A recent study done here in Michigan reveals some very interesting results when it comes to foster kids in the Great Lakes state. But what do these results mean, and how do we interpret them in a way that best benefits children. According to the Youth Policy Lab and the Child and Adolescent Data Lab…