Category: Child Welfare System
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Factors That Could Influence CPS When it Comes to Removing Your Kids (Pt 2)
Hey there, thanks for joining us again for more on this unsettling but important topic – the factors that influence CPS decisions when they’re trying to figure out if a kid is at risk of abuse or neglect. Specifically, if they think the risk is high enough to warrant removing that child from their home.…
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Does CPS Investigate Every Abuse or Neglect Claim Made? (Pt 2)
Thanks for joining us again for the rest of this chat about whether or not CPS investigates every allegation made. The truth, as we shared with you last time, is that they don’t, but that’s only when they can’t locate the child, the alleged abuse is happening out of their jurisdiction, or the child is…
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Does CPS Investigate Every Abuse or Neglect Claim Made? (Pt 1)
This is something we’ve been asked many times over the years – do they look into every allegation made against someone when it comes to a kid? And unfortunately, the answer isn’t as straightforward as you’d think. So we thought we’d spend a few minutes explaining what the average CPS worker looks for in a…
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How CPS Handles Abuse Investigation When Drugs Are Involved (Pt 2)
Hi there and welcome back. We’ve been discussing how CPS handles parents with drug addictions during abuse and neglect investigations. As we mentioned before, substance abuse is a growing problem here in Michigan, especially when it comes to opiates. Which means that if CPS is really going to help families battling this issue, they will…
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Why Are we Still Kicking a Dead Horse When it Comes to CPS in Michigan? (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. If you remember from our previous article on this subject, we talked about how widely acknowledged it is that CPS screws up so often, and so badly, and yet very little is done to address the problems. Previously we shared details with you from a report written by…
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Why Are we Still Kicking a Dead Horse When it Comes to CPS in Michigan? (Pt 1)
Say the word “CPS” and you’ll likely get some very passionate responses from people. Some of them good, and some of them terribly bad. But why? Why does this one little branch of local Michigan government cause so much rage, and elicit such strong reactions from people. Well, it could be because they have a…
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What Can CPS Make me do to Get my Kids Back? (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this very important discussion about what CPS can make you do in order to get your children back. It can feel very frustrating to have your family’s togetherness subject to the whims of another person. To know that even if you do everything they ask you…
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Texas Judge Orders Sanctions Against CPS For Wrongful Removal (Pt 1)
It’s not often that you hear of a Judge actively seeking to punish CPS for their rotten choices and violations of people’s rights. In fact, CPS workers so often seem to operate with total disregard for the law, and so we tend to assume that they don’t believe they’re accountable to anyone. But every now…
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CPS: A Long History of Separating Children From Their Parents
There has been a great deal of media coverage and social media dialogue over the last six months or so about the families being separated at the border. The stories of children being taken from their parents without just cause have been rampant, and heartbreaking pictures of children held in chain-link pens with nothing more…
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“When The Welfare People Come” – The Broken Child Welfare System in America
The issue of CPS’s unethical approach to parenting oversight, and the long history they have with dividing families, has been a subject of heated debate for many years. And yet for many people who’ve never personally encountered CPS, they have no idea that the issue is even an issue – can you imagine that!? Despite…