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Attorney Janet Frederick-Wilson, also of Parents for Children, said that the actions of government agents involved in the case were probably more motivated by money than by religious issues. The group claims that grants awarded to agencies and performance bonuses awarded to Children's Protection agents cause them to "twist facts and blow situations out of proportion."

"They target minorities because they often have the least resources to fight them with… and they take advantage of cases with divorce issues and domestic discord."

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I do not condone the violence many Arab men heap on their property..err..wives but the article has some real troublesome words for anyone who believes in a strong family.

Under most states the do gooding legislators have turned the schools, doctors, nurses, teachers aides, police, fire and any one else who comes in contact with children into mandated reporters.

To have a child taken away does not necessarily constant overly harsh physical abuse.

They only have to be at what the state calls at risk.

All it takes is say a teachers aide notices a child crying and seeing anything resembling a mark or red spot on the child and a report is filed with Child Protective Services.

CPS can then question the children and if they want to be mean or frivolous can call the police to come and forcibly take the children out of the home and the parents can do nothing but watch as they go out the door.

I despise Kalifornias laws as it has taken any logical reasoning out of dealing with children and parents.

Most parents when the CPS comes do not know their rights under the current law.

Good parents unknowingly let the CPS worker come into the home and why not.

They think that their job as a parent has been a good one.

The child is questioned while playing on the floor with crayons or some other toy and is asked all kinds of leading questions as to how they are punished and the family relationship.

Any thing more than a pat on the butt or a timeout and the children are gone and it's court time for everyone.

My neighbors who are both respected professionals went through this mess and nearly lost their children because they were both spanked on the butt with a ruler.

The two kids ages 7 and 8 got into a hitting fight one morning before school.

The teachers aide saw that the youngest child was crying and had a red spot on his face where the older sister had hit him.

The teachers aide then asked the child why he was crying.

The child did not answer and the aide then said did your father hit you in the face with his fist.

The child still upset would not answer but was clinching his fist.

The aide then called Child Protective Service and filed a report claiming the father had hit the child with his fist.

The CPS came to the house and while investigating the report determined that in the past year the father and mother had spanked the children twice using a 12 inch ruler.

The CPS worker walked out side for a few minutes and then came back into the house and accused the parents of abusing their children because under Kalifornia laws you can only spank the child on the butt using the hand.

Within a few minutes a patrol car pulled into the drive way and 10 minutes later the children were gone.

It took my neighbors nearly two weeks to get the children returned and several thousand dollars in four court appearances.

The younger child is now seeing a Psychiatrist and taking medicine for the trauma received by being forced away from his parents.

The behavior of both children in school has deteriorated since being taken from the home.

The parents saw an attorney to file a civil lawsuit but are still undecided as the law is on the side of who ever makes the report and the CPS.

I do not trust the CPS as they strong arm a lot of parent trying to rack up a quota of children taken out of the home.

There paycheck depends on splitting up families.

Just my lowly Red State Wannabe Opinion.

its happened

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Anything that brings attention to the unregulated abuses of CPS is good. I was complaining about how they were harassing three professional families on my street in the 80's in MO. An elderly sociologist replied, "That's nothing. My grandson had a pimple bust on his butt, and...." A pharmacist took his four adopted children and moved to the country to get away from it. A lawyer I used to protect my son was literally appalled by social workers who knew no restraints.

"There paycheck depends on splitting up families." Bull. "Their" paycheck does not. Splitting up families is that last thing "They" want.