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Child Protective Services Investigations Often Cause More Harm Than Good.

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Child Protective Services (CPS) in most states have a simple mission statement that centers around keeping children safe from harm.

But, what happens when corruption infiltrates CPS departments, and the very organizations that are meant to protect these children ends up doing them more harm than good?

Since the implementation of the Adoption and the Safe Families Act, state governments actually receive cash bonuses for each child adopted out of foster care.

The separation of families has become a growing business for states that need the additional revenue to cover overextended budgets.

These cash incentives have led to corrupt practices that amount to little more than legalized kidnapping in many cases. According to Senator Nancy Schaefer of the Georgia General Assembly,

”Parents are victimized by “the system” that makes a profit for holding children longer and “bonuses” for not returning children”.

– http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com

Child protective services investigations are often conducted by individuals who have a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ mentality that has had dire consequences in too many cases.

Often, there are some children who are separated from their parents with little to no cause, while others are left to suffer in the worst possible conditions.

Social workers in charge of child protective service investigations often manipulate children right in their schools in order to encourage them to report their parents for disciplining them.

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Corrupt Child Protective Services Investigations

Parents are often forced into cooperation by threats of permanent separation. One Georgia mother was incorrectly told that she would lose her children forever if she did not sign a paper to relinquish her rights.

This mother was coerced into signing away all rights to her own children under extreme duress.

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CPS Often Uses Getapo Tactics when Removing Children

CPS workers often take children from their homes in the middle of the night and remove them from school buses without prior notice.

These children are traumatized by the very people who are supposed to protect them, and the treatment received at the hands of these people is often insensitive at best.

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Accountability Needed in Child Protective Services Investigations

There is often little responsibility or accountability within the CPS system.

Better background checks and stricter oversight are required to ensure that child protective services investigations are conducted according to consistent policies that keep the best interests of the child in mind rather than the state coffers.

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