Michigan had just gone through a horrific year where Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan had put on a television campaign for position of Chief Justic, asking everyone to call in and thank her for her wonderful work in foster care and adoption while almost 100 children had died in state care that year.
Gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos during his campaign, began slinging the names of the murdered foster and adoptive children against Granholm.
Michigan OCO Ricky Holland Investigative Report
Basically, "Every Child Matters Education Fund" is throwing dead babies to promote a political agenda.
This national child abuse propaganda machine has again pumped up its political agenda without recognizing its public obligation to present the facts.
Similarities of this report are eerily reminiscent to other, less funded groups who are dedicated to bringing awareness to the higher occurrences of deaths of children in foster care than in the child's original home.
This report makes no distinction whether the deaths of these children were in foster care, post-adoption, or in placement of residential institutions.
The report fails to mention the number of children who have died from overmedication of psychotropic medications.
The report does shed light on the lack of transparency when dealing with investigations but the report, itself is far from transparency, itself, as it does not clarify "child abuse and neglect deaths".
The only indication to their application of child deaths is in the report's use of a graph of child deaths in the top "Rich Democracies". In this sense, child abuse and neglect would refer to poverty, making the terms fungible.
If this is the case, the report should note that the United States has the highest child mortality and child poverty rates compared to all industrialized nations; hence, poorer children are more likelier to be abused.
The report, sadly, neglected to acknowledge Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse in child welfare, and its ancillary programs of Title IV-B and Title IV-E, further demonstrating the lack of accountability of this advocacy group.
I speculate this report was a collaborative effort of imperialistic morality parade drummers who are rallying for the existence of their operations utilizing the "throwing dead babies effect."
Recently, legislation was introduced to reauthorize Child Abuse Prevention Treatment Act (CAPTA). As I believe this is the case, this report, along with the organization, is a textbook example of how a non-profit structured for educational purposes crosses the line to perform lobbying activities.
I am absolutely against the re-authorization of CAPTA.
I support the expansion of Medicaid to include all child welfare programming. Removal of a child would no longer be based upon poverty indicators, sugar glazed as the term neglect. The mechanisms for regulation are already in place and would only have to be encouraged.
Since this report did not reference or cite its sources, I will do it for them:
Just like the bifurcation of the deaths of children in foster care and those who are not,
NEW Report: Second edition of “We Can Do Better: Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in America"...foster care
Every Child Matters is pleased to announce the release of the second edition ofWe Can Do Better: Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in America, a compelling report that explores the growing crisis of child maltreatment fatalities in America. The report, however bleak, offers hope and insight on how to reduce these tragic, yet preventable fatalities.
The report recognizes the growing number of American children who die each year as a result of child abuse and neglect -- nearly 2,000 -- and several studies suggest that this is a low estimate of the actual number of deaths. Among rich democracies, this rate is 3 times higher than that of Canada and 11 times higher than that of Italy...more
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