To laugh is to risk appearing a FOOL! To weep is to risk appearing SENTIMENTAL! To reach out for another is to risk INVOLVEMENT! To expose one's feelings is to risk REJECTION! To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk RIDICULE! To love is to risk not being loved in RETURN! To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk FAILURE! But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing,the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is NOTHING! He may avoid sufferings and sorrows, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or LOVE! Chained by his certitudes, he is a SLAVE! He has forfetited his FREEDOM! ONLY A PERSON WHO TAKES RISKS IS FREE!

- NOTICE - L.A. COUNTY SUPERVISOR ED EDELMAN STARTED DCS/DCFS IN 1984 & BUILT CHILDREN'S COURT IN '92. THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED "EDELMAN'S CHILDREN'S COURT." THE BIG PUSH OF PICKING UP KIDS WHOLESALE STARTED IN '90 BECAUSE OF ALL THE FEDERAL FUNDING BEING DUMPED ON THE STATE OF CALIF. WITH MOST TO L.A. CO. IF YOU CALCULATE THE AGE OF KIDS IN THE SYSTEM IN SO. CAL. SINCE '84 TO '04 THEY WERE ABOUT 20 YRS. OLD IN 2004. IN 2000 THEY WERE 16. IF YOU CALCULATE THE AGE OF KIDS IN THE SYSTEM SINCE 1990 TO TODAY'S YR. OF 2007, THEY ARE 16 OR 17 NOW. AND MOST ARE IN GANGS. THE MURDER RATE IN L.A. COUNTY ALONE HAS BEEN ABOUT 900 TO 1000 EVERY YR. SINCE THE MID '90'S. DO YOU SEE A CORRELATION BETWEEN KIDS RAISED IN GROUP & FOSTER HOMES W/O A DAD ALLOWED IN THE PICTURE (AND) THE ALARMINGLY HIGH MURDER RATE? I DO. COINCIDENCE? AND, DO YOU SEE A CORRELATION IN OUR CALIF. PRISON POPULATIONS OF 33 STATE PRISONS, 9 FEDERAL PRISONS, A BUNCH OF COUNTY JAILS & CYA'S , ALL BULGING AT THE SEAMS? I DO. COINCIDENCE? DID YOU KNOW THAT WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR PRISONS WILL COME OUT ON THE STREETS SOONER OR LATER? DID YOU KNOW THERE IS A LOT OF RACIAL POLITICS & VIOLENCE INSIDE PRISONS AND NOW THERE IS A WAR IN THE STREETS BETWEEN GANGS & THE COPS? DO YOU THINK FOSTER YOUTHS ARE ANGRY? I DO. DO YOU THINK DCFS RAISING FOSTER YOUTHS W/O FATHERS ALLOWED IN THEIR KIDS LIVES ARE TO BLAME FOR ALL THIS VIOLENCE? I DO! THEY ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE. IS IT GOING TO GET ANY BETTER FOR CALIF. CHILDREN WHO COME OUT OF 1 SYSTEM AT 18 AND TRADE IT FOR ANOTHER SYSTEM LIKE CDC PRISON? IT HASN'T. DO YOU THINK THE HIGH PAID COUNTY & STATE BUREAU CRATES WORKING IN OUR CALIF. FOSTER & GROUP HOME SYSTEM HAVE MADE THIS CORRELATION? I DON'T. DO YOU THINK THEY EVEN CARE? I DON'T. NOT ABOUT THE KID'S ANYWAY. WHAT CAN YOU OR THOSE OF US WHO HAVE HAD THEIR KIDS STOLEN BY DCFS AND HIDDEN OUT IN SECRET LOCATIONS IN 3 OR 4 DIFFERENT COUNTIES BY 'KIDDY' COURT, DO TO STOP THEM FROM WRECKING OUR HOMES AND RETURN OUR KIDS TO US WHO ARE WILLING & ABLE TO BE GOOD PARENTS? DO SOMETHING! NOW! 6 OUT.

 BY, ROBERT WATTS; CHERRY GAILS DAD & FRIEND OF "ACT NOW INC.NET"   PLEASE VISIT  R.W.WATTS BLOG http://www.FightDCFSinLA.blogspot.com  

ALSO; I HAVE LOOKED EVERYWHERE AND CANNOT FIND ONE (1) SUCCESS STORY OF A CHILD REARED BY THE UGLY EVIL EMPIRE OF SOCIAL SERVICES ! AND IF THERE IS ONE OUT THEIR, HOW MUCH DID THEY PAY HIM/HER TO CLAIM SUCH A THING!   L.J.HANSHEW

 

ASSEMBLYMAN Bill Maze, R-Visalia, has heard too many disturbing stories about relative caregivers being "strong armed" by social workers to either adopt a child -- or risk having him or her taken away.

It's not right.

"Relative caregivers should be our first line of placement," said Maze.

The source of these horror stories is no mystery. California judges who are determining the fate of a child are guided by state law to give preference to adoption by a stranger over guardianship by a relative. Also, the federal government rewards the state with a $4,000 incentive payment for each adoption of a foster child above a baseline rate.

"Given the difficult task of finding adoptive homes for the many foster children who do not have a relative caregiver, it is hard to understand why we would want to threaten to remove a child rather than accepting a relative guardianship as a permanent plan and placement ... yet existing law allows this exact scenario to arise on a daily basis," the Children's Law Center of Los Angeles, which represents 20,000 abused and neglected youth, wrote in a recent letter to Maze.

As the law center noted, there are many reasons why a relative caregiver may prefer legal guardianship over adoption. "A grandmother or aunt might view adoption as 'taking the child away' from her own daughter or sister," the law center wrote.

The law center is leading the push for Maze's AB298, which would adjust state law to make clear that a child living with a relative guardian should be allowed to stay in that home when possible. The best interest of the child should be the guiding principle of these often excruciatingly tough custody decisions -- and AB298 helps advance that goal.

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Register your support for AB298 by e-mailing Maze at assemblymember.maze@assembly.ca.gov.

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Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the United States. These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) in Washington. Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the agencies that are supposed to protect, and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents to, no judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty for more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nation wide is guilty for more human rights violations and death of children then the homes they took them out of. When are the judges going to wake up to see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes at the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers.