The subject of child protection is not often in the media, and when it
is, it is usually to print puff pieces or stories planted by the child
protection industry itself. Here we have carefully selected those media
sources that report seriously on the subject.
CBC radio program The Current broadcast January 8, 2010.
Country star and guest-host Shania Twain, interviews Katreena
Scott, professor in the Department of Human Development and
Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto, and Jeanette
Lewis, Executive Director of the Ontario Association of
Children's Aid Societies. This discussion by three believers
omits mention of the armed police escort used on every visit to
a new client, and many other atrocities.
(26 megabytes mp3, starts with 15 second commercial). Georgia
state senator Nancy Schaefer speaks with Ron Smith and others
for an hour, recorded March 27, 2008. The senator has found
that reform at the state level cannot occur as long as the
federal government offers large funding incentives to the states
to separate families. She recently announced that she is
running for the US Congress.
Glenn Sacks hosts a radio program His Side, defending the
American male. Here are two programs dealing with child
protection and one featuring Fathers-4-Justice Canada:
A web-only radio program dealing with the experiences of
adoptees. The second link is to a gem extracted by John Dunn -
a social worker herself adopted is forbidden to look at her own
case file.
Mark Blackburn did two programs for CBC Ottawa on Children's
Aid, only this one survives. It presents the view that
permanent separation of children from their parents harms not
the parents, but the children. Until these broadcasts, Marie
Bountrogianni stonewalled requests for information on the
five-year statutory review of the Child and Family Services Act.
This 1.6 Mb mp3 file has running time 6:52.
A CBC program with Anna Maria Tremonti and Karin Wells,
broadcast on The Current, January 4 2006. It deals very mildly
with false accusations of child abuse, suggesting not that there
are big flaws in the system, only small ones. Runs 23:33, real
media format.
Annie Armen hosts a radio program AnnieBiotics™ dealing
with all of family law, including child abuse and child
protection. The following page has three programs on CPS:
A 24/7 internet radio program dealing primarily with divorce,
but also touching on child protection. The site has several
different links for live feed, so you can use the one that works
with your computer.
Dean Tong hosts a one hour radio program Tuesdays 11 am to noon
eastern time on WTMY Sarasota Florida. This is available for
live feed only, no archives. This link may be the correct feed, while the program is on the air.
(wma). Radio interview of Diane Booth by Gary Null, broadcast
on WBAI radio New York on June 13, 2003. It is the tragedy of a
mother who fled to Canada with her son to save him from
child-protectors.
Part two. British MP Tim Yeo speaks in the House of Commons
November 25, 2009. He gives details of a case in which social
services kidnapped a newborn from a family based only on the
possibility of future emotional abuse.
Colleen Deroache interviews veteran RCMP officer Sheilah
about her experience with child protection. At age 5 her son
engaged in risky behaviors requiring him to spend a month in
British Columbia respite care at the mother's request. At age
12 Sheilah's work took her to Saskatchewan where she found her
son had stolen $700 on her VISA bill. Resorting to tough love
she reported him to the local police, expecting an overnight
detention followed by a court hearing. Instead a social worker
intervened and kept mother and son apart for nine days until
their first meeting, and three weeks in foster care. When
Sheilah showed the social worker her bulky file on her son's
mental health problems the worker said: "I'm not interested in
anything you have to say". When the boy tried to use the
bathroom at night, his unexpected discovery of another boy
already inside led to his punishment as a sexual deviant.
According to Sheilah, child protectors deny parents the
protections that the RCMP allows to accused offenders. Posted
to YouTube November 9, 2009.
A mother is ashamed of Canada after six years of struggle with
children's aid. Posted by Canada Court Watch November 7, 2009. The second
video is her advice on making (secret) audio recordings of meetings.
Straight-arrows Paul and Zabeth Bayne discuss the condition of
their children after two years in Ministry care in British
Columbia. Posted to YouTube September 17, 2009.
Child protectors place girls Fantasia and Sabrina with their
grandmother. She is led to believe she can adopt the girls, so
cooperates with termination of mother's parental rights. Once
termination is complete, Bethany Christian Services sends police
to retrieve the girls. This video, taken on the day of removal
(probably autumn 2008), was posted to Myspace August 8, 2009.
El Paso County Colorado DHS worker Dimitra interviews the Lawson
Family. The prime target is teenager Amanda Lawson, younger
children are Benjamin, Franklin (age 5) and Elizabeth (still
younger), Father Chad Lawson and the unnamed mother are also in
the video. Dimitra is the usual confident, dominating social
worker until at 4:54 in the video the mother announces her
intention to record the private interview between Dimitra and
Amanda. The social worker calls her lawyer for help and leaves
without conducting the interview. Posted to YouTube June 27,
2009. Part two appears to be missing.
A phone call between an expectant mother and social worker and
baby harvester Anita from Ely Family Centre, Cardiff Wales.
Posted to YouTube by MrBagwandeen81 May 28, 2009.
Brant CAS criticizes a mother in court for using baby oil on her
baby, and feeding him yogurt, but a public health nurse says
these things are good for a baby. Posted to YouTube April 25,
2009.
Father Chris Dalhberg visits his three-year-old son Logan at the
Jan Stirling Building in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. In
this video posted April 2, 2009, a Yellowknife Health and Social
Services social worker instructs the boy to lower his voice.
Dad sticks up for his kid.
Kim and Craig MacNearney's children, Gilgamesh and Berendon,
were apprehended when an anonymous tip about a closet marijuana
garden brought GNWT Child Protection Workers to their door with
4 RCMP officers without a search warrant. Despite having never
been accused of mistreating their children, Child and Family
Services kept the children in foster care for 13 days and then
returned them battered and traumatized. The parents were only
allowed 3 hours of contact with their children in 2 visits.
This is a video taken during the second visit that occurred
on day 8 of the 13 days. Kim and Craig were required by Child
and Family Services to dress and load the children into the
minivan so they could go to the foster home.
Following some normal kid play, notice the reaction of the
kids when they realize separation is coming. Also notice the
torture inflicted on the parents. Posted to YouTube March 20,
2009. Since it has real names, child protectors will bully it
off YouTube soon.
January 10, 2009 - Citizen Speeches to Northern Virginia General
Assembly: Christopher Slitor describes how his daughter Sabrina
was kidnaped by Arlington CPS.
January 10, 2009 - Citizen Speeches to Northern Virginia General
Assembly: Nancy Hey describes how her infant daughter Sabrina
was kidnaped by Arlington CPS
Video authorized and approved by both parents of Umholtz
children. Pearl L. Bryan witness to corroberate Adam and Kim
Umholtz authorization to video children during their visitation
in 'public park'. Posted to YouTube November 15 2008. The
website FloridaCorruption.com is already defunct.
Posted to YouTube October 6, 2008. This Childrens Aid Society's
group home victim speaks of the hell he went through and the
suicide of another group home victim. He states that it is the
unnecessary brutal isolation from family that causes a lot of
the damage and directly led to this friends suicide. He says
that we need people in the system who actually give a shit.
Oregon father Mark recorded a 16 minute meeting with CPS. They
could not justify their seizure of his baby with a single past
or future action of the father. CPS got YouTube to remove the
video on grounds that it violated "privacy". Below is his
letter from jail, following his arrest on October 2, 2008.
Hello. My name is Mark. My baby was kidnapped by CPS on
July 16, 2008 with no claim of abuse or neglect. I have
informed CPS, and proved on the record, that they do not have
authority or jurisdiction over this baby to remove him from
his parents. It is a blatant invasion, without cause, onto
the sanctity of family. The CPS workers ignored me, and
conspired with the "judge" to rig the game so it looks
legitimate - i.e. - covering up their crimes. I have exposed
their crimes. Now they have retaliated by getting me
arrested. They have altered court records, falsified my name
and address and residency status, and thereby have caused me
to not be included in their kangaroo court process. I caught
them in this deceit and exposed them and the judge on the
record for fraud. On Oct 2, at 9:30pm, 4 armed police and a
dog attacked me outside my home. Without announcing their
purpose or intent they physically attacked me, threw me around
the deck area, hit me, tossed me over a table and generally
demonstrated their violent inclinations. It is 6 days later
and my wrists are still bruised from the vindictive
over-tightening of the handcuffs. AFTER all this, they
informed me they had a warrant for the arrest of the false
name that they assigned to me. The charges: "Intercepting
Communications" - A MISDEMEANOR! And they executed it with
this much violence? I later discovered CPS workers are so
desperate that they falsely accused me of threatening to blow
up the court house! These people are sick, psychotic and VERY
dangerous. As promised, I will continue to speak out, even
from jail. CPS must be abolished. And, the criminal agents
must be put in prison for kidnapping. Join the battle to
expose them.
Posted to YouTube October 6, 2008. According to this graduate,
CAS means Criminal Apprentice System. Lots of children get in
trouble with the law after entering group homes.
Posted to YouTube September 19, 2008. A father visits his son
in an observation chamber. The man posting the video comments:
The last visit of Dad with his baby. CPS cut off visits
after receiving a "psych eval" that was nothing but
regurgitated rhetoric handed to the doctor by the social
worker. Notice "The Room" that is the same "Room" all over
the globe! This poor little baby doesn't even have a name
yet! Can any sane human even think that this poor baby is
better off in "foster slavery" than with his own parents? He
has a happy 2-parent home with a mother and father that love
him with all their heart. There is no claim of abuse or
neglect! The "State" didn't even know this baby existed for
certain until they hijacked the mother in a parkinglot and
ripped the baby away from her. On accusation from a social
worker from another state that there are other children being
held hostage, so this baby might be at risk!? Might?
Possible? Can we say "prior restraint" and "denial of due
process"? How about "failure to provide pre-deprivation
hearing"? How about outright "Kidnapping"!?
The whole "evaluation" crap is a complete fraud. How is it
that a father should have to prove himself fit to raise his
own children? Are the "caretakers" and "foster parents"
subject to these evaluations? Why is a Parent forced to
undergo stricter criteria than a complete stranger to the
child?
The social worker's husband is DIRECTOR of the county
corrections department. He came knocking IN PERSON on Friday
to intimidate and harass! He has a staff of psuedo-cops that
do in-person contacts for probation matters, but he comes 15
miles in person? The Director of the department? Tell me
this isn't harassment! No contract = criminal conduct. They
are trying to use Baby to coerce and intimidate Dad and Mom
into a contract! "Just sign this agreement for visitation
requirements..." CRIMINALS!
September 2008. Carline VandenElsen has given birth to four
children, all taken from her by force and placed with
genetically unrelated caretakers. In two video folk songs, she
laments her ordeal.
My First CPS Visit, posted to YouTube June 11, 2008 by
EmmanuelMontelongo. A CPS tries to bully a father into
relinquishing his baby. The blurb says: My mother in law is
putting cps on me because she is psycho.
Don't Mess with Texas CPS, posted May 30, 2008. Following a
report by Austin TV station KVUE on baby Jocelyn snatched from
mother Shirley Houser in the delivery room, Alex Jones comments
on the Houser case.
Posted by Canada Court Watch May 25, 2008. A teenaged girl
discusses her experiences with the Office of the Children's
Lawyer.
Colleen and Alvin Deroache
(May 19, 2008). A British Columbia couple recounts five years of experience dealing with
local child protectors. This material is in seven YouTube videos:
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7].
Since controversial material disappears quickly from YouTube, we have local copies:
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
(all in flv format). Only the first is technically awkward.
A standard technique of family destruction is to falsely tell
both parent and child that the other does not want you. In this
case, a mother caught evidence of the scam on audio tape. This
video was posted April 29, 2008 to the blog It's Almost Tuesday. The family is not identified.
April 28, 2008. Family Reunification Is Visitation Canceled.
Robert Coleman records an encounter with a caseworker, but
professional prevaricators fear accurate publicity above all
else.
February 25, 2008, YouTube. A mother raped by the psychiatric
drug Zoloft eventually catches on and weans herself. Her next
baby is kept out of the reach of doctors with a home birth.
December 14, 2007. YouTube. The story of a Florida family
wrecked by DCF. Also, see the Douglass blog.
CPS, CIPS, DCF, DSS, DCFS, or whatever name they go by in
your area, have taken children away from parents because of
unfounded accusations. Municipalities also "put people in
their place" to protect the drug trade!
Friends of mine have been to scared to take their children
to the hospital because of an injury that occurred. Due to
the corruption of DCF and CPS.
One story of a friend had a four wheeler flip onto his 14
yr old son.
He split his head and was bleeding, wanting to go to sleep.
The Father and mother cried for hrs while doing everything
they could to help the wound, because they were afraid they
would lose their children to DCF.
There are MANY more stories like this all over Florida that
are happening everyday.
Another friend has a 3 year old daughter who was spinning
in an office chair, fell down and put a bump on her head, the
Father and Mother were to scared to take her to the emergency
room because they were afraid of DCF stepping in and taking
their children on unfounded accusations.
Until we have honest employees, or at least an internal
affairs group for DCF, people's children are in danger of
suffering at the hands of lying DCF employees. What will
happen to these children who need medical help and the parents
are to afraid to take their children to the hospital because
of being falsely accused and losing their children.
A missionary friend was to fly in to Florida to preach in
our area. He had been praying for our family with his family.
An 8 year old son was going to fly in with him, but the day of
his flight leaving, his son found out they were coming to
Florida and would not get on the plane. He said, "I don't
want to go where people take children from the Dad and Mom's."
He cried excessively until his father told him he did not have
to go.
Three sisters separated for months express their opinion of
their foster homes. British Columbia MCFD punishes the family
by ending their visit. Posted to YouTube June 29, 2007.
Posted to YouTube January 11, 2007 by bshattucknh (screen name)
with the comment: This video was made and dedicated to my 3
kids that were placed in foster care in 2005...I love you Mikey,
Mariah and Matt, Love Dad. On another YouTube
daddyotosanthe (screen name) says the children were taken by
Waterloo CAS.
Stolen Baby! A young mother and grandmother have a baby girl
stolen in Lancaster County Pennsylvania without cause. Only
embarrassment from a film-maker gets the child returned. Posted
December 4, 2006.
This is an audio/video clip in wmv format of a woman speaking to
the camera with a paper bag over her head to protect her
identity. She describes the flight of her family from child
protectors. This clip is authentic because it came from Leonard
Henderson of the American Family Rights Association. With a
low-speed connection, download the file before playing it.
Five women discuss social services, totally clueless as to its
true nature. From the tv program 100 Huntley posted to YouTube
October 2, 2009 featuring guest: Ronnie Littlewood, Brantford
Children's Aid Society Social Worker, www.homesforkids.com
On the Edge, Theo Chalmers interviews John Hemming for two hours. This is the first of
thirteen YouTube parts, links to the other parts are on the YouTube page. Posted March
4, 2009.
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan speaking at Cooley
Law School Grand Rapids provides an overview of a lawsuit
settlement regarding the foster care system in Michigan. She
speaks of the child protection system, not as a party at arms
length, but as a collegue. Posted to YouTube October 23, 2008.
We could not find a video titled "Don't Talk to the CAS", so here is the best we could
find. Talking to CAS is even more dangerous than talking to the police. Posted to
Google video May 21, 2008.
February 19, 2008. How To Deal With That Dirty Worker
(YouTube). Most social workers have less education than a high
school graduate, yet think of themselves as experts in
psychology, medicine and law. To deal with them, pretend to be
at their intellectual level. Not everybody can do this, but the
advice might work for some.
January 4, 2008. YouTube. Indian leader Russell Means
on the destruction of his nation by child adoption, drugging of
children and medical experimentation.
July 17, 2007. Google video, audio only. Alex Jones interviews
guest Gregory Hession. The child protection topic starts one
hour 32 minutes into the program.
September 2006. Raynard Price "Ask A Foster Parent Anything -
Destroying Kids". A candid foster parent exposes the
malfeasance of foster parents social workers and
therapists.
Google video of TV program, The ACS Kidnaps Children,
including an interviews of parents Rolando Bini and Conchita
Jones. Dated 21-Feb-2006, runs 28 min 31 sec.
A report broadcast by KOB-TV Albuquerque on October 13, 2009
about a town hall meeting in Valencia County New Mexico. The
level of anger toward CPS shows why social workers prefer
invitational meetings.
A mother finds her baby's picture on an adoption scam website.
She gets sympathy from the press, but most mothers don't,
because the state is posting their child's picture. August,
2009.
Adoption agency Focus on Children lied to Samoans to get their
children, then lied to American adoptive parents to get their
money. On February 25, 2009 the operators got non-jail
sentences.
Wednesday's Child, broadcast on KDRV Medford Oregon, January 21, 2009, advertising two
toddler girls, Arianna and Addison, for adoption. Not mentioned in the story: where the
cute girls came from.
Posted to YouTube December 27, 2008, from KRIV Fox-26 Houston.
CPS in Texas filed an affidavit with the courts stating,
"Baby's mom was positive for illegal drugs." CPS said the house
was unclean and unfit for the baby. CPS LIED! For once, their
lies did not work. Drug test - NEGATIVE Condition of House -
Judge wanted to know why this statement was in the affidavit if
known to be untrue.
In seven weeks infant was in foster care she came home with a
severe sunburn, diaper rash with pustules, asthma requiring
breathing treatments throughout the day!
There is more and as time permits, we will post more.
This baby is so fortunate to have a mother and father who
love her dearly, and a grandmother you do not want to mess with!
Children Will Die. After toddlers Skydawn Word and Raymond
Palmer died in Oklahoma foster homes in one week, CPS spokesman
George Johnson said "children will die", and blamed parents for
the conduct that gets kids into foster care. True, even
children are mortal, but they become ten times more mortal when
they enter foster care. From a TV broadcast July 2008.
Mother Nicola Luzyn fled New Zealand taking her three youngest
children Rebecca Jonathan and Julia to safety in England when
threatened by CYF. Father Andy and their oldest son Michael
stayed behind in New Zealand. Posted to YouTube July 11, 2008.
In July 2008 Californians Chaudhry Sharif and Fakhere Afzal took
their baby daughter to the emergency room. CPS took both their
daughters and terminated parental rights while ignoring medical
evidence of innocence. From KTXL.
Posted May 29, 2008. When hundreds of children were seized from
the FLDS ranch near Eldorado Texas in April, 2008, the press
reported that sixteen-year-old Sarah, was forcibly married as
the seventh wife of Dale Barlow, gave birth to his child at age
15 and was pregnant again, she was beaten by her husband while
other women held her baby, children were locked in closets and
deprived of nutrition, there was a conjugal bed in the temple
where marriages were consummated and most of the teenaged girls
were pregnant or already mothers. Eventually every one of these
accusations was found to be false. When the Texas courts
ordered the children returned for lack of evidence of abuse,
Nancy (dis) Grace added new accusations of voyeurism,
exhibitionism, sadism, incest, beating, brutality and
waterboarding of babies.
CBS-TV Los Angeles, posted to YouTube May 22, 2008. Foster
children are given psychotropic drugs, not for their medical
needs, but to shut them down and increase funding.
November, 2006. 17-year-old Tammy is reunited with her mother
Yvonne Coulter after a sham adoption. The pretext was a bruised
cheek on the baby girl from an accidental fall.
Video news report of Jessica LaBoy, mother jailed for refusing
to disclose the whereabouts of her children to child protectors.
The undated report is probably from year 2005.
This MS-NBC report follows the story of a family from the time a
teenaged girl accuses her stepfather of abuse. The authorities
convince the parents to admit abuse on promise of getting their
kids back, then double-cross them. In the end, the family is
permanently destroyed. There is no video, only a
transcript.
Louisville Kentucky television station WLKY had to win a court
battle before airing this program dealing candidly with the
realities of the child protection system. There is no video,
but a transcript survives on their website.
This is a professionally produced documentary, to be expanded
into a full-length movie, directed by Bill Bowen. Posted to
YouTube September 14, 2009. Local copies:
[1][2][3] all flv.
Kids Jailed for Cash? ABC 20/20 broadcast March 27, 2009. Two
Pennsylvania judges are convicted after sending large numbers of
juveniles to jail in exchange for kickbacks from the private
prison.
January 8, 2008. The Medicated Child, by PBS Frontline. A
generation of American children is now being used as
experimental animals for improvised psychiatric experimentation
to determine which if any psychotropic medications can improve
behavior. Local copies:
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
(all flv).
January 2008. The Lobotomist, on PBS, entire program available
online. This is a TV biography of Walter Freeman, 1895-1972,
pioneer and messianic practitioner of lobotomy, severing the
connection between the frontal lobe and the rest of the brain.
Removing their human characteristics turned patients into docile
zombies. The first psychotropic drugs were welcomed by
psychiatry because they achieved the same purpose as lobotomy.
Failing Jeffrey, broadcast April 12, 2006 by the CBC Fifth
Estate. Jeffrey Baldwin was removed from his parents by Toronto
CCAS and placed with his grandparents. The grandparents starved
him to death. After the fact, journalists discovered the
grandparents had been previously convicted of killing a child.
The html link shows the program in a small window, copy the wvx
link into a media player for a larger picture.
A powerful video titled The Drugging of our Children, includes inteviews at all
levels from senior administrators and psychiatrists to drugged children. The Google
blurb is below:
1 hr 43 min 4 sec - 20-Oct-2005
www.garynull.com
In the absence of any objective medical
tests to determine who has ADD or ADHD,
doctors rely in part on standardized
assessments and the impressions of teachers
and guardians while the they administer leave
little room for other causes or aggravating
factors, such as diet, or environment. Hence,
diagnosing a child or adolescent with ADD or
ADHD is often the outcome, although no organic
basis for either disease has yet to be
clinically proven. Psychiatrists may then
prescribe psychotropic drugs for the children
without first making it clear to parents that
these medications can have severe side-effects
including insomnia, loss of appetite,
headaches, psychotic symptoms and even
potentially fatal adverse reactions, such as
cardiac arrhythmia. And yet, despite these
dangers, many school systems actually work
with government agencies to force parents to
drug their children, threatening those who
refuse with the prospect of having their
children taken from the home unless they
cooperate.
Thousands of children were separated from their parents in
Quebec and raised under atrocious conditions. When it suits
their purposes, the CBC can tell the story succinctly as in the
excerpt below from their web page on the Duplessis orphans. The
purpose in this case is to place the blame for the tragic era on
the Catholic Church. None of the outrage over past atrocities
has altered today's policies of taking children from their
parents.
During the reign of Quebec Premier Maurice
Duplessis in the 1940s and 1950s, an alarming
number of healthy children living in
sanctuaries were hastily diagnosed as mentally
incompetent, psychotic patients. The
diagnoses were always swift — the
children went to bed orphans and woke up
psychiatric patients. The reason? Shrewd
fiscal planning; federal subsidies paid out
more to hospitals than to orphanages. Some
children allegedly endured lobotomies,
electroshock, straitjackets and abuse. For
the rest of their lives they would struggle to
bring attention to their story and demand
compensation. They called themselves the
Duplessis Orphans.
At the age of 35, film maker Gil Cardinal, raised by foster
parents, finds his natural roots.
Movies:
Rabbit-proof Fence
This is the best movie on foster care. In
1931 the Australian government took three
part-aboriginal girls (half-castes in the jargon
of the time) from a family into "care", actually
a dormitory and training school for servant
work. The three escape and the oldest,
14-year-old Holly, leads them home. When the
other inmates realize at roll call that three
have successfully escaped, they give a loud
cheer.
How does a 14-year-old girl get across 1200
miles of desert? She has bush-smarts. She gets
help from an assortment of passers-by, steals
eggs from a chicken farmer, even finds a home
with an aboriginal maid. When she has to go
east, she looks at the desert sun for bearings,
then heads in the right direction. In the end,
two girls make it home, one is recaptured. The
final scenes show the 85-year-old Holly, and
tell of her own children being abducted into the
system a decade later.
The movie faithfully depicts the bigotry of
the authorities who are mystified by the
aborigines refusal to accept their
services.
Dear Zachary
Dear Zachary. This documentary tells the true story of a young Pennsylvania doctor.
After he breaks up with his girlfriend, she murders him and flees to Canada. When she
turns out to be pregnant with his child, the doctor's parents get the only grandson they
will ever have. Canadian courts let the killer go free on bail while awaiting
extradition and give her custody of the child over objections of the grandparents. This
case exemplifies the total failure of the criminal and family court system. Perhaps, as
the grandparents believe, the judges failed to recognize the character of the homicidal
mother. Or maybe with their years of experience they did. Family courts direct revenue
to their colleagues in the bar when they routinely give custody to a dysfunctional
mother, requiring the father, in this case the grandparents, to expend large sums to
right the wrong. Dear Zachary can be viewed online at supernovatube
Section 60
This movie, not yet released, can be previewed
by text or youtube video.
The Handmaid's Tale
This movie made in 1989 shows a dystopic future in which fertile
young women are conscripted to be child-bearers for influential
couples. Real love is extinct, children are separated from the
bio-parents at birth to be raised by their patrons. Feminist
Margaret Atwood created this vision as a criticism of a world
without feminine influence. An irony is that in the two decades
since the movie, feminism has become one of the intellectual
justifications for the construction of a world in which children
are routinely separated by force from their birth families to be
given to more politically influential individuals or groups.
One difference from Atwood — today's religion is not that
of the bible, but political correctness.
The Yarn Princess
Movie about child protection, not available from any known source.
Juno
Review by Erika Klein:
Monday, February 25, 2008
Babies,Ipods and The Like..
I am sooo glad the movie Juno didn't win any major Oscars
last night. Even though I champion Canadian actors and film
makers, Juno was the 'jagged little pill' I just couldn't
swallow. Though I'm sure the people involved in this film may
very well possess talent - the storyline following a 16 yr old
pregnant girl looking for adopters did not portray reality.
Juno took only one award for best original screenplay.
The only people who seemed to enjoy the film were either
people looking to adopt or people who have had no experience
with adoption personally. The wise cracking teenager made
comments like "You shoulda went to China lady they give away
babies like Ipods". This was only the beginning.
The film seemed to sugar coat over the most painful and
traumatic experiences a first mother goes through. Even when
it is an informed choice, it does not take away the loss.
Relinquishing children for adoption brings with it a life long
loss that never seems to go away. The Hollywood happily ever
after just doesnt wash with me.
Juno makes it seem like surrendering a child for adoption
is a trendy even cool thing to do. While the shame of
pregnancy out of wedlock is slowly being taken away - a new
set of ideals are being presented to us via movies and the
media.
These new ideals are what continue to pervade adoption.
They are just more myths. The myth that a 16 yr old cannot be
helped to raise her own child. The myth that a mother can
choose adopters and have an 'open adoption'. The myth that a
young mother could walk away without any grief or anguish.
The myth that babies are property and can be exchanged to
someone 'better'. The myth that giving your child away does
no damage. The myth that a bond between a mother and child
isn't of any value.
At the very least, Juno did provide an opportunity to
parents to openly discuss sexuality and related issues with
our children. If anything this movie served as a warning.
Tell your daughters adoption does not look like this. Juno
was a far cry from what most first mothers go through. I'm
elated Juno did not take home a major win.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
A musical fantasy released in 1968. The villain is a character Child Catcher
played by Robert Helpmann. When two children enter the kingdom of Vulgaria where the
ruler has banished all children, Child Catcher has the job of snatching the newcomers.
He searches their quarters unsuccessfully, then lures them into his cage with lollipops
and slams the gate shut behind them, then transports them to a cell in a tower. When
this movie was made Child Catcher was a fantasy. Today he is not.
Blogs:
Here are sites on the internet where you can
find news about child protection and family law.
Eugene Weixel, a New York City social worker calling himself
"fat old formerly Jewish guy who lives in the projects" spills
the beans on his own organization.
One of the best ways to stay informed about
child protection is to join some of the email
groups dedicated to the subject. They give you
an opportunity to discuss the matter with other
interested persons, and many of them have users
who post regular news, often of the kind that
you can never find in the press. Our listing of
Canadian groups is shorter than it should be.
Readers knowing of others should email us at
< rtmq at fixcas.com >.
For Canadians, we can suggest the afterfostercare group, created by John Dunn. It's main
emphasis is on survivors of foster care, but deals with child protection issues as well.