What you don't know, will hurt your family.

Hello everyone! I know I havent been on posting much but well, cant neglect those kids you know! Much has happened since Ive last posted. One, I have actually become close with a gal from my church who is also a CPS officer. She, my friends, is the ‘good guy’. She questions, and is there [...]

http://blog.oregonlive.com/myoregon/2008/11/child_or_agency_protection_1.html Estimates I’ve come across in my research reckon that between one-third and two-thirds of those children currently in foster care nationally should be living with their parents. Furthermore, it has become undeniable that despite many saintly foster parents the government makes a poor parent. The research shows unequivocally that CPS should be loathe to [...]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_baby_sitter_backlash_mich By JAMES PRICHARD, Associated Press Writer James Prichard, Associated Press Writer – Tue Sep 29, 7:23 pm ET IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about [...]

You wake up in the morning to the sound of birds. Zipping open your door you greet your neighbor, a figure climbing out of their front door- their tent. This is what a few families have been forced to do for a living, tents in the wilderness complete with pantry and Port-a-potty. But included in [...]

Our last visit from CPS was late July a few weeks before I was due. They actually knocked on my door a minute after my mom came through it with a cake for Danny’s birthday party to do a walk through. Seeing my mom was there, I got a chummy, “Oh! I’m sorry I see [...]

Family Found Slain After CPS deems Household Safe This story that has recently hit the news headlines of a father who killed his wife and five kids is evidence that CPS is broken. It’s not that CPS didn’t do enough, or that they did too much to cause this father to kill his family. The [...]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/parents-sue-wal-mart-children-bath-time-photos/Story?id=8622696&page=2 Couple Sues Wal-Mart for Calling Cops Over Bath Time Photos Children Were Taken Into Protective Custody Over Pictures Taken at Bath Time By DAN PRZYGODA PEORIA, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2009 For Lisa Demaree and her husband A.J., it was the hardest time of their lives. It all began a year ago, when the Demarees [...]

Well, here is the downstairs recently. I’m due in 5 weeks so it’s getting down to the wire. We havent heard from CPS since June, where they said that their case was inconclusive whether or not our home was a detriment to the safety of the kids. We looked for a new home for a [...]

Here is a story from a wonderful family who decided to have a homebirth. When the mother’s placenta didn’t come out right away, and they went to the hospital, they were treated horribly. Issues like this are prevelant, even leading to social calls of neglect. Our Happy Homebirth Ended in a Horrid Hospital Visit November [...]

This past week has been horrible. Continuously making sure that the house is in pristine order has taken over my days, my nights, my thoughts and my dreams. I fall asleep only to dream that they are at the door wanting to inspect my home. Are the kid’s beds made?! Is there laundry in the [...]