How do you fight Child Protective Services and win?
595454
if they had a good enough reason to get involved with you. I don't think you're gonna win
761659
Does Child Protective Services do that?
1003718
I know exactly what you're talking about.  My mother and I got custody of my nephew after my sister screwed up.  He was taken from her, we had a choice: foster home or with us.  I think its completely ridiculous to not put your child with family, that's her support system.  You can talk with the social worker.  Most social service departments (Department of Children and Families, Child Protective Services, Department of Children Society, etc.)  their goal is reunification with the natural birth mother.  We wanted to help my sister get him back until she started abusing drugs and alcohol again and married an abusive and violent piece of crap.  Now we are struggling to keep him far from that, and they are pushing for him to go back, even after her 3 DUI's and domestic violence charges in the last 3 years.  Every state is different, but hopefully someone at CPS can help you and you can start on the road to recovery and 'prove' yourself and follow the case plan.  Unless they terminate your parental rights, you always have the right to petition the court for replacement.  I wish you the best of luck!!!
193652
The next time you hear a ruckus going on next door, call the police immediately. Even better check to see if there is a help line for kids to call in your area and use it to report the abuse NOW! Call your Social Services Office or Children's Aid Society and report it to them. They have to check out all reports of abuse. If you are not sure who to call, phone a school or hospital in your area and ask them for a number to use. You can remain anonymous and the woman next door will never know who reported her if you are worried about retaliation on her part. Do this. You'll be glad you did. These children need help.
983241
Call Child Protective Services which is in the front of any telephone book!  If it is happening right then, like a child is alone or being Battered, call the police and they will call CPS after they arrest someone or remove the child!\n\nCustody is awarded by the court after a petition is filed and a decision of imminent danger is made! Kids are usually placed into foster care until we find a suitable relative, which isn't always possible, especially in sexual abuse cases!\n\nContact CPS and let them know you are available! In my state you can also get custody through a probate court under certain circumstances!
590384
First, try legal aide.  (NOT the public defender who HAS to take cases).  Legal aide chooses their cases and are dedicated lawyers who care (cuz there isn't money in their jobs....it's non-profit).  \n\nFind all documentation you can get, all witnesses who can vouch for you, any medical records, etc etc...to back you up.  Make your case strong.\n\nThere are many false allegations of child abuse out there...been victim to it myself...there are ways to clear yourself.  Trust in the Lord, get your documentation, find your witnesses, and put it in His hands.
953072
I taught at a school in Ca.  It is true that the schools are limited in what they do to protect other kids from being bullied.  Several of the answers were very appropriate.  Most important thing would be to document each and every incident.   I would then (as someone said) write a letter to the school with pictures of marks, along with any statement of your child.  Send it registered or certified mail to the school, the teacher, and the superintendent.  If there are marks on your child, I would immediately file a police report and send that in the certified letter.  Request a response to the letter and a meeting with all parties involved to find a way to solve the issue.  What many people do is complain and try to resolve it on their own, but nothing will happen until someone gets really hurt.  You need to demand that a  plan be put in place to protect your child.  If this does not happen, you will file suit.  Make sure everything is in writing.  Have your child seek counseling (not through the school).  if you do not have the money to pay for it, then find a place that charges on a sliding scale or will give free services.  Bring the counselor to your school to represent your child.  Do not wait for the school to take any action.  It could take forever or not happen at all.
494904
Apparently so:\n\n"Child Protective Services, CPS, has devastated and destroyed hundreds of thousands of families in America during the last thirty years leaving a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, and shattered childhoods.\n\nRather than helping families, government agents have used unconstitutional laws in Juvenile Court to rip children away from their loving parents, break asunder God-given, natural, parent-child bonds, and adopt the children of the grieving out to others who profit financially with large monthly adoption subsidy payments.\n\nChild Protective Services must be stopped! The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed. We must work tirelessly to inform the public of this very dangerous travesty of justice. We must keep faith knowing that if there is a God, there is an answer and a way to end this heartache.\n\nChild Protective Services Agents - please come to your senses! Family destruction on false or trivial grounds is wrong, reprehensible, and inhumane.\n\nFosterers - be aware that for the money you get you are holding much-loved children away from their grieving families while the parents are forced to perform a service plan that is anything but a service to them. I call this hostage holding for the government. This is not kindness - to help misguided government agents destroy family relationships and break loving bonds.\n\nCPS workers and fosterers - I ask that you now give up these unworthy professions and find something more dignified to do with your lives. Let the children of the innocent return to their homes where they are truly valued, adored, and loved by the parents God gave them.\n\nFamily rights are God-given rights. And they should not be ignored or postponed. Every moment these loving parents and children spend separated from one another is a torment beyond what anyone should ever have to bear.\n\nIt is unworthy of human dignity to allow this terrorism and torture of families to go on without saying something, speaking out, and trying to make a change.\n\nSite mission: To provide information and support for families attacked by Child Protective Services and child welfare agents, especially those families facing false or trivial accusations of child abuse or neglect; and for researchers working to protect natural family rights."
516964
Get a lawyer, if your case has gone to court, get a personal lawyer! Do not use a public defender! I repeat,\nDO NOT USE A PUBLIC DEFENDER! Hire your own attorney! Public defenders are overworked and overloaded with cases, so you will not get fair representation! (been there, done that, sent a postcard!)\n\nSecondly, until you get a lawyer, do as CPS tells you. They capitalize on you breaking their rules, and they count on the fact that most of us don't know our rights or the local laws. I suggest you get educated first more than anything.\n\nIf you feel as though CPS had no grounds in taking your kids, write to the local governor or state senator. Fax it if you can, because these officails have been known to "erase" or "lose" any e-mail sent to them. \n\nJoin a kids advocay group, or women's right group, get someone to hear your plea, people are strong in numbers, and two heads are better than one! Lastly, look up this website fightcps.com , there are plenty of helpful links and forums in this website.\n\nIf all else fails, go to your local newspaper or radio station and tell your story. Write letters to Oprah or Montell if you have to. Also, knowing someone of a high rank helps, like a judge or Disrtict attorney, or even another lawyer.\n\nRemember, the more you fight CPS the more they start to back off. These people count on we as consumers to be ignorant about their procedures and bylaws!\n\nGood luck, hope this helps!
789715
Speaking as a prior Sex Crimes Detective in Florida:\n\nCall the state abuse hot line and make a report.  Child Protection and the police work in concert to investigate these allegations and they are taken very, very seriously.\n\nIf this has been done and you are not satisfied with the out come you need to do as you have done... Hire a good attorney and let them lean on the police, the state attorney and the Child Protection agency.\n\nI wish you luck, my friend.
364401
No.  And call child protective services- nobody has the right to whip you.
699927
Helping abused kids is a very noble profession - and it's great that you want to go into that field. There is nothing better than helping to protect a kid. \n\nMost child protective services jobs require at least a 2 year college degree and the social workers jobs require at least bachelors degree (and they will expect you to enroll in a masters degree program and complete it within at least 5 years of hire)\n\nGood luck
975086
Check out V.O.C.A.L. or Victims of Child Abuse Laws. The first thing you need to do is know your rights. CPS in over half of their cases are not there to protect the child they are there to take healthy well adjusted children from good homes on trumped up abuse or neglect charges & make it practically impossible for the parent or parents to get the children back & then get revenue for the State through adopting out the children.\n\nGoogle "Atrocities of CPS"
73630
Get a new lawyer. You are going to have a long hard process ahead of you. You have to find something to pospone the termination of rights. It could be anything. The process of cps court proceedings is called substantive due process. This means that not everything is cut and dry and anything that you can bring forward that will show that you can become a competent parent or that they made a mistake in the case should hold off the parental rights trail. Also make sure you have not or do not sign away your rights to an appeal.
149363
Yes. And they need to be pared down now. The Child Protective Services in my state make an awful mess of families with no real proof of any reason. They do the children more damage than good by ripping them from famlilies with no explanation, keeping them apart from their families and basically terrorizing everyone. Babies included. I have seen many families destroyed. My son's is one of them. And there seems to be no way to deal with them beyond letting them play thier God games and bowing low each time. Even saying "DHS" in relation to this situation lost one set of grandparents visitiation rights with the kids. This is way, way beyond the scope of their original job.
224486
Contact your Child Support Enforcement Unit for the current balance.  They are a unit of Child Protective Services under the state government section of your phone book.
962484
I would suggest that you consult with an attorney.\n\nIn almost every state, if there is a CPS proceeding, or child in need of care proceeding, you are eligible for an appointed attorney if you cannot afford one.\n\nI urge you to contact an attorney licensed in your state to assist you.  For a referral if you are not eligible for a free attorney, contact your local or state bar association.  Please... don't try and do it cheaply.  Your kids are worth it aren't they?