What You Will Not See In Child Abuse Prevention Month

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Get ready for the propaganda to fly.

That's right, you will hear nothing about the abuses of children in care. You will not even hear about the flimsy excuses used to remove the children. Nothing will be said about the termination of parental rights that were based of fraudulently generated reports nor will you hear that a child was adopted out because a parent could not access medical resources.

You will see absolutely no statistics on the number of children who will attempt and who do commit suicide. You will hear nothing about the children who are reunited with the family to live a life of horror dealing with the post traumatic stress of being herded from on placement to another.

You will also not see any statistics on the children who age out the system and how they face a life of homelessness, prostitution and drug addiction. You also will not see any statistics on how many children in the foster care system are children of foster children as the state will remove a child from a ward of the state.

You will not hear about the sexual abuse and physical abuse in the residential institutions and juvenile facilities.

You will not hear how poverty is considered as abuse and neglect, which is why the numbers are so high in Michigan. I have found that there is just about a perfect statistical correlation with the monthly rates of unemployment and children entering foster care.

You well not see any information on Michigan Children's Institute (MCI) and the number of children harmed under the legal guardianship of the Superintendent of MCI who has no legal authority.

You will not see any dollar amount of fraud, waste and abuse nor will you see any reference to lawsuits, settlements, violation of settlements or Auditor General reports finding questionable and improper costs.

Any state failing to provide for the necessary needs of society is a perpetrator of child abuse. Poverty is not a crime.

The time has come to admit that there needs to be a change and do something about it.

Michigan Child Abuse Prevention Month Complete Toolkit 2010