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Monday, January 14, 2019

Watch A New Born Tiny Human Being Legally Kidnapped - Elizabeth Warren, et al Refuses To Talk About DACA But Has Declared Her 2020 Presidential Campaign Instead

Yes, this is a Canadian Child Protective Services video of a new born being Legally Kidnapped moments after birth.

Yes, this is what DACA us all about, but no one wants to talk about it, so that is why we are in shutdown.

This is a multi-trillion dollar, global industry of trafficking tiny humans that funds political campaigns and no one wants to talk about it, which is why we are going to SCOTUS.

We should ask Elizabeth Warren what her plans are to stop the trafficking of tiny humans, oh, and while you are at it, let her know that I never forget the popcorn when speaking upon my Sweetie, with a cocktail.

On second thought, perhaps we should leave Elizabeth Warren alone because she will be forced to speak upon the residuals of the peculiar institution, better recognized as slavery, and say the name of the individual who championed the end of it.

Viral video of Manitoba newborn being apprehended by CFS prompts family to speak out


"Have a great day, Elizabeth Warren"

Two social media videos show a newborn baby girl being taken from the arms of her Indigenous mother by Manitoba social workers and police – an apprehension that First Nations leaders say is all too common in a child-welfare system biased against Aboriginals.

The videos, broadcast live Thursday on Facebook by the woman’s uncle, show her sitting in a hospital bed, cradling her baby and rocking back and forth as social workers and police explain that the baby is being taken into care.

The woman is crying softly and being hugged by relatives, one of whom is wailing in sorrow. Eventually, police place the newborn into a car seat and take her away.

The mother is not told when she might see her baby again.

Statistics from the Manitoba government show newborn apprehensions occur, on average, about once a day in the province.

About 90 per cent of kids in care are Indigenous.

The videos, which had been viewed more than 400,000 times by Friday afternoon, offered a rare glimpse into a normally private matter and quickly led to calls for change.

“The system that we’re subject to is not a system for our people,” Grand Chief Garrison Settee, who represents northern Manitoba First Nations, said Friday at a news conference with the mother, her family and other community leaders.
“We want to take back our babies because they belong to us. They belong … in their own culture, in their own societies, among their own people.”
The woman, her baby, and other family members cannot be identified under Manitoba law.
The child was taken away because of a false accusation that the mother was drunk when she arrived at the hospital to give birth, the woman’s aunt said.

‘Blindsided’

The videos show family members telling social workers the accusation was not true. They ask whether the baby could stay with one of them instead of being taken away. The request is denied.
All the while, the mother is sitting on her hospital bed, cradling her baby. On Friday, she recalled getting strength from her infant daughter.

“I was blindsided … and it’s just astonishing how far this had to go,” she said.
“When I was holding my baby, she was actually the one who was keeping me content and strong and focused. And I’m still holding on to that.”
Cora Morgan, a family advocate for the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, said the mother may have been targeted for a “birth alert” – a note to social workers that an expectant mother is high risk – because she had another daughter who was temporarily in care several years ago.

The woman had previously sought help for addictions and with parenting from Child and Family Services, Morgan said, but was not intoxicated when she arrived at the hospital to give birth.
“In the system – as a mother, as a father, as a grandparent – they’re always deemed guilty of something, and there’s no mechanism to ever prove you’re innocent.”

The woman is hopeful that she might be reunited with her daughter shortly. The case file has been transferred from Winnipeg to an agency in the woman’s home community.
“I’m very hopeful things are going to work out in a positive way.”

Statements from CFS, Province:

“In Manitoba, when child and family services is involved, parents have the right to choose which Authority they would prefer to work with. Apprehending a child is a very difficult decision, and is done only as a last resort and when required to ensure children are kept safe.

“When a child is brought into care, the agency’s first consideration is always to explore reunification with parents and to place the child with a family member while this is being done. Agencies utilize a variety of practice strategies, such as safety network meetings, to find family members and to create a safe environment for the child. The agency focuses on working with family and community members to collectively create and implement a safety plan for the child.

“As CEO of the General Authority, I have personally reviewed this file in detail and met with the agency staff involved, including the director of the agency. I am confident in the decisions made. We will continue to work with this family, and engage with any collateral or partner agencies the family wishes to involve.

Debbie Besant

CEO, General Child and Family Services Authority

“I am saddened to see a family’s situation result in an apprehension, which is meant to be used as a last resort when there are serious concerns about a child’s safety.

“Our government is focused on strengthening family bonds and reducing apprehensions through child welfare system reform, priorities reinforced by Monday’s announcement of a doula initiative. Over the past year, we have seen a reduction in the number of children in care, an increase in family reunifications and a decrease in apprehensions by more than nine per cent.”

Heather Stefanson
Minister of Families

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Saturday, January 27, 2018

How Some Teens Free Themselves From Foster Care

Yes, this is a standard technique used by teens to free themselves from foster care.


Some kids are not so lucky because they survive.

Teen killed herself at foster home, mother wishes she hadn't obeyed 'their rules'

'They say they are giving your kid a better life … a better place to live, but really, is it?'



 The mother of a teen who killed herself while in the care of Manitoba Child and Family Services says she should have kept seeing her daughter despite being told not to.

The mother, who can't be named under the Child and Family Services Act, said the 15-year-old was found dead early Monday morning by her foster parents.

Later that day, Métis Child and Family Services — which operates as an agent of the province — informed the mother that the girl had died. On Tuesday, they met her in person to tell her the death was a suicide.

"I was shaking. I was mad. I was screaming at them," she said. "There's no explanation they can give me. That's another child gone in CFS's care."

According to a report by the Children's Advocate of Manitoba, 13 children died in CFS care last year. Four of the deaths were of natural causes, three were accidental, four were "undetermined," and two were suicides.
The girl had lived a short life full of loss and transition.
The mother said she wasn't able to care for her daughter when she was born, so the girl lived with her grandmother in Winnipeg at first
"I had a lot of things going on in my life. I was into drugs, so I figured she'd have a better life there," she said.
When the girl was eight months old, the grandmother was no longer able to care for her, so she went to live with a step-grandmother. 
When the girl was between the ages of 10 and 12, her mother says Child and Family Services took over her care, because the step-grandmother was aging and had health problems.
"Ever since then, she's been bounced from place to place to place," her mother said.
"And she didn't even know who I was till a couple years ago."
As soon as they met, the girl started running away from different homes to visit her mother, whom she wasn't allowed to see. The mother admits she had an abusive spouse and substance abuse problems of her own. She also has nine other children who were or are currently in CFS care.
"They say they are giving your kid a better life … a better place to live, but really, is it?" she asks now.
The girl was transferred to Gimli, Man., according to the mother, where she allegedly killed a dog in the foster home there. She went to court over the incident, then was transferred back to Winnipeg this past summer, according to the mother.

Selling nude photos online

She was getting more heavily involved in drugs and drinking, her mom said.
The teen had also begun to sell nude photos of herself to men online, which her mother noticed and flagged to CFS. They notified police, prompting an investigation by the Winnipeg child exploitation unit.
She said Métis Child and Family Services told her that her daughter was "very troubled" and had also been cutting her wrists. They arranged for a support worker and appointments with a psychiatrist.
"But I mean, like, if she was very troubled, they seen when she was with her family she was happy," said the mother. "They should have let more of that go on than strangers trying to cope and work with her."
The province and Métis Child and Family Services would not comment, citing privacy legislation.

Will investigate

But a provincial spokesperson wrote that by law, the CFS agency is required to conduct its own investigation when a child dies to assess safety and risk to other children involved.
Office of the Children's Advocate
 is aware of her death and is launching an investigation, as they do within one year of any child who dies in the care of the province. The investigation will focus on the CFS and social services that were provided to the child. 
"I think that everybody who is involved with CFS acknowledges that we definitely have improvements that we have to make, and that certainly those improvements are required very, very quickly," said Daphne Penrose, Manitoba's Children's Advocate.

She said multiple levels of government, families, First Nations leaders and the children themselves need to be part of the conversation for change.

"Bringing children into care is the last resort," she said.
"When you listen to children they will talk about wanting family connections, wanting to return to their communities … but most of all wanting that family and being a part of their family. Those are critically important things as we move forward and start to look at what the needs of children are and ensure that we are hearing their voices."
After returning from Gimli, the girl continued to seek out her mother.
"She'd message me right away on Facebook, she used to do video chats with me, she'd be 'what are you doing?' and she'd be smiling, laughing, happy, playing music and singing there with her headphones in her ears," the mother said.

Told to stop seeing her daughter

She said she gave her daughter the address of the hotel where she was living.

"She spent the night, I paid her cab, she left the next morning, then a couple weeks later she snuck over again and that's when CFS said we had to put a stop to it, or cops would be involved," said the mother.
So the girl started visiting other family members, and last saw her great-uncle about three weeks ago.
"She'd play on the computer, she'd talk with us, she just seemed totally relieved from stress," he said.
He said she complained of feeling pressure because of her curfew, the level of control others had over her, the other children involved and her lifestyle.
"She was depressed about being in CFS care. She said she didn't want to be there, she wanted to get out," he said.
"She started slashing herself up, and we told her, you know, anytime she feels like slashing herself up, to come over here. We'll talk to her, we'll put her on the computer, we'll do whatever she wants."
She never returned. Instead, her body was discovered in her bedroom at the foster home on Monday morning.
"Painful … it's painful, it's words you can't even explain," said her mother.
"I should have just kept doing what I was doing, like seeing her behind their back," she said. "Maybe she would've been happy 'cause that's what she wanted. But I obeyed by their rules and look what happens."
"I think she probably felt abandoned," said Cora Morgan, First Nations family advocate at the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, from Ottawa, where she's attending an emergency meeting on First Nations, Inuit, Métis Nation Child and Family Services.
She said the disconnect Indigenous children in care have with family and culture can cause them to feel like a burden as they're passed from home to home within the system.
"They're experiencing grief and loss, and that's never appropriately addressed. A lot of times young people get labelled, and they're medicated … and in the midst of all that, they lose value for life. They can't appreciate causing other people harm because they've always just consistently been suffering.
"At the end of the day, children are always going to want to be with family, and they're going to want to be with their moms. We know we have these extraordinarily high rates of apprehension in Manitoba — the highest in the Western world — and along the way there's never been a real commitment to effectively work with parents to see if they can provide them with parenting support and respite support and give families a fighting chance at being healthy and unified."
The mother said CFS did not offer her parenting support for her daughter. She doesn't understand why Métis Child and Family Services allows her to have supervised visits with her other children, but not this daughter.
"They are supposed to connect family together ... they are not supposed to hold family away from them. Your children," she said.
The mother said at the meeting where she learned her child had died by suicide, the support worker told her the teen had no friends and would often go skating, or would sit and play the violin, by herself.
"She was alone in this world. Like she probably figured like nobody wanted her. I don't know what was going through her mind. Like I wanted to be with her," she said.
She's picked out a casket and will have the service in Winnipeg later this week, but doesn't know who will attend, because not many knew her.

She and her family will then drive four hours north to the place the girl's Métis family is from to bury her.

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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Some Still Do Not Get It

Before you read the following article, watch this enlightening video.



Some Still Do Not Get It

Interventionist child protection policies are right

THE state has a responsibility to protect children from inadequate parents.

FOR people on the Right, child protection can be a difficult issue. Those who identify with liberal traditions place a premium on limited state intrusion into the lives of individuals. However, child protection reform that upholds the independent rights of children needs to be on their policy agenda.

The clientele of child protection services consists predominantly of members of the underclass, that proportion of Australians who are long-term welfare dependent and have a range of welfare-dependence exacerbated behavioural issues, such as domestic violence and substance abuse.

The complex problems these families experience include the inability to rear children adequately.

In too many child welfare cases the presumed right of dysfunctional parents to retain custody of children is elevated above the best interests of children.



While encouraging parents to change their behaviour and meet children's needs has always been a part of modern child protection, the pendulum has swung too far towards trying to fix broken families and giving parents almost limitless opportunities to change.

A culture of non-intervention in family situations has developed in the state bureaucracies in charge of child protection services.

The statutory investigation of child welfare reports by caseworkers trained to assess whether a child is in need of court-approved removal from the family home has been marginalised in favour of providing support services (drug counselling, parenting programs, home visits) to families.

Instead of focusing on traditional child protection work, social services departments provide parent-centred rather than child-centred services to allow biological parents to retain custody of children, even where children are identified as being in danger of harm.

Child protection failures create the next generation of dysfunctional parents. The paradox, and the dilemma for those on the Right, is that greater intervention is needed in the lives of dependent members of the community to break the intergenerational cycle of neglect and abuse and save future generations.

The broader cultural issue is whether the Right has the will to defend core community standards or whether the questionable perspectives of the Left will continue to dictate social values in child protection. When the welfare of children is at stake, it is not too harsh to hold parents accountable for bad behaviour in circumstances that contravene John Stuart Mill's principle that liberty should be interfered with only to "prevent harm to others". Mill was one of the 19th-century progenitors of the progressive idea that a child had the right to enjoy their full liberties and opportunities as a future citizen. In On Liberty, he argued that parents who failed to fulfil their "sacred duties" towards their children were guilty of "a moral crime both against the unfortunate offspring and against society . . . if the parent does not fulfil this obligation, the state ought to see it fulfilled".

However, the moral and social judgments that child protection depends on are beyond the comprehension of those who subscribe to leftist cultural politics.

In an article published in June last year in the Australian Journal of Politics and History, Kate Murphy, Marian Quartly and Denise Cuthbert accused those who frowned on drug-addled parenting of supporting the "conservative family policy of the Howard era".

This would be bad enough if it only reflected the dated ideology pervading the social services sector, which is that removing children punishes poor parents who are victims of structural socioeconomic injustice.

The authors' views also reflect postmodern values that cast child protection as a moral panic deployed to authorise the social surveillance and cultural oppression of the powerless and excluded.

The notion given credence by Murphy, Quartly and Cuthbert is that child welfare laws hold parents to socially constructed behavioural standards to buttress the hegemony of traditional bourgeois family values. Treating parental intravenous drug use in a relativist manner - as if drug-addled parenting is a legitimate lifestyle choice - is wrong and dangerous because it denies the reality of child abuse and neglect.

The idea that welfare-dependent heroin addicts have a right to keep their children reveals moral and ideological confusion. Those on the Right need not hesitate out of misplaced doctrinal concerns to make such judgments about the rights of parents as against the rights of children.




NOTE: THE UNITED STATES HAS NEVER APOLOGIZED TO ITS PEOPLE
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