Category: Child Welfare System
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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…
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How CPS Plans to Fix Everything That’s Wrong at The Agency
If you follow our blog (or read the news) then you know that CPS is in trouble. A recent audit revealed that mismanagement, errors and poor case outcomes are not occasional issues, but daily norms at CPS. Hundreds of investigations not handled. Thousands of children left in seriously abusive situations, or pulled from loving families…
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Does Losing Your Water Mean Losing Your Kids As Well?
The University of Michigan recently conducted a study that looked at, among other things, the cost of living in Detroit. One of the issues addressed was the monthly water bill of most Detroit residents. What did they find? That the average Detroit family paid about $100 per month, which is twice what the federal affordability…
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How a Recent Federal Law Will Change Foster Care in America!
The things that President Trump does, get a lot of press time – both from his supporters and from his detractors. However, not every bill he’s signed into law has got the coverage it’s deserved, and the Family First Prevention Services Act is no exception. Tucked into a massive spending bill that rolled out in…