In these pages you will find the stories of loving, caring people; parents, grandparents, and other kinship caregivers, who have been abused by the practices of the Child Protective Services in their State.

Some made innocent mistakes like asking for a little help. Some are victims of the viciousness of people making erroneous reports. As you continue to read these heartbreaking stories, you will realize that it can happen to you at any moment.

This page exists because we wish to make changes to the system that is supposed to keep the Best Interests of our children at the forefront of their investigations, and instead is guilty of abuse as damaging to these children as that it is supposed to protect them from.

Eventually we will be taking these stories and any more we can collect to the government offices responsible for making these changes.

Children die every day because they were returned to the homes of abusive parents. Children are subjected to living in foster home after foster home, where they're not loved, instead of being placed with a family member where love abounds. Some live in foster homes until they are 18 and graduate to their own recognizance.

Family members that have reported the abuse are often denied access to the abused child, simply because they reported the abuse. The priority of Child Protective Services is to reunify the family, whether it is in the best interest of the child or not. They routinely shut the kinship caregiver or the concerned relative out so reunification will not be jeopardized.

Their funding mandates reunification. It is in violation of 
Federal Laws.

Grandparent visitation and/or placement is protected by Law. States and Counties ignore that law. Child Protective
Services ignores that law. 
Judges ignore that law.

Children and Grandparents need to have these laws enforced, and some others changed. The best interest of the child needs to become a reality instead of the farce it is now.

States need to be required to follow Federal Laws and rulings to the letter. Judges need to be required to follow LAW instead of politics.

The vagaries that still exist need to be filled with explicit text to allow for NO INTERPRETATION by any part of the system. 
All loopholes need to be filled.

Children have Constitutional Rights...the same as adults do. They do not have to reach majority for most of these Rights to be held paramount. These Rights include an ongoing relationship with any and all extended family members when these members do not jeopardize the child's safety and/or well being.You will find links to this fact on this page and on other pages at this site.

There are several organizations that are striving to make changes to the laws that are still not placing the Children's Rights and Best Interests above other considerations. You 
will find links to them on the links pages.

Story 1 Story 2 Robert Kovalak,Jr. Clayton Durham The Best Interests of the Child Definition of the Best Interest by Senator Boley of WV Rights The Ten Commandments of a Child A Child's Letter to Parents Children's Letters To God

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