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  • Do Water Shut Offs Mean CPS Can Take Your Children Away?

    The city of Flint has a long history of bad press, and the recent problems with the water rates have done little to help that problem. But aside from the city’s troubles following the recent court ruling requiring that they cut water prices and stop disconnecting people’s supply lines when bills go unpaid, the city…

  • Can improperly installed car seats bring CPS to your door?

    It sounds ludicrous, right? That the state would investigate a parent even when that mom or dad thought their child’s car seat was properly installed, but it actually wasn’t? Well, the truth is, while CPS certainly isn’t going to go door to door, asking to view your car seat installation techniques, they can get involved…

  • CPS Investigating Toddler Found on Street at Midnight

    When police are contacted about a suspicious or strange situation involving a child, especially one where there is no obvious crime for them to pursue, they call in CPS. This way, they can turn over the investigation to an agency whose sole focus is investigating allegations of abuse and neglect. It also allows them to…

  • Does CPS Have a History With Traverse City’s Murder-Suicide Family?

    On the 13th of August, MSP Troopers found four bodies inside a home in Garfield Township. A couple and their two children, dead in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide. But as the investigation unfolds, it seems there are more questions than answers.   According to the Michigan State Police  , they are currently looking…

  • A Positive Change After Maryland’s ‘Free Range’ Parenting Issue

    Sometimes, when a government agency does something so ludicrous, and so invasive, it is only the media storm and public outcry that forces the hand of change. Which is why, when the the two Meitiv children, aged 10 and 6, were taken by police and held for hours simply because they walked home unattended from…

  • CPS Under Scrutiny After Toddler’s Death

    Michigan’s Office of Children’s Ombudsman is in the preliminary stages of an investigation to determine whether or not CPS did their jobs with regard to the recent deaths of two toddlers. In both cases the babies were determined to have died as a result of severe abuse. But what the state’s watchdog agency is trying…

  • Mom Tasered For Attacking Police After CPS Takes Child

    This is one of those tragic stories. The kind that starts with a frightening domestic assault and escalates when a mother tries to protect her child from a perceived threat. Unfortunately, the ending is a lose/lose situation, full of unintended consequences. Especially for a 30-year-old mother who was assaulted, and then lost her child, and…

  • Novi Family Reunited After CPS Drops Investigation

    If you were to ask the Geers what hell on earth looked like, they would describe for you their own lives. But all of that has changed, now that CPS had finally dropped the child abuse investigation that tore their family apart and resulted in their five children being removed from their home.   The…

  • CPS – The Best And Worst of Our Nation’s Child Welfare Programs 2

    In the last segment we reviewed some of the disturbing finds that were made public recently regarding the issue of child welfare in the US and here in Michigan. We looked at the results of a WalletHub research study and wondered what on earth we, in Michigan, could do to change it. Well, the  folks…

  • CPS – The Best And Worst of Our Nation’s Child Welfare Programs 1

    UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre did a study awhile back: ‘Measuring Child Poverty in the World’s Rich Countries‘. Sadly, the United States, one of the most wealthiest and most powerful nations in the developed world, ranked second on the child poverty list. How is that even possible?   According to the Children’s Defense Fund, one fifth…