CAS tops list of Charities to Avoid

Excerpts from "Charities to Embrace or Avoid," an ethics-based evaluation of mainstream charities:

A leading Ontario fundraiser has ranked Children's Aid Societies LAST among charities worthy of public and corporate support.

Lisa Di Veto, who has provided senior fundraising counsel to many of Canada's best-known non-profit organizations, says CAS fully deserves the abysmal rating. "Child welfare guardians who disgrace their mission so thoroughly have no credibility in their roles and should not be allowed near children".

Here are further excerpts from "Charities to Embrace or Avoid," an ethics-based evaluation of mainstream charities:

Children's Aid Societies routinely abduct children on the flimsiest of pretexts, contrive malicious court actions against parents who are blameless, lie to courts with impunity, fabricate physical evidence, exhibit and cover up their own negligence and refuse to discipline employees for heinous professional conduct. Even when these agencies know their actions are groundless, they continue to prosecute the innocent to gain custody of their children. Rather than holding such agencies criminally accountable, our governments allow CAS victims no recourse but to seek satisfaction from the very individuals that are abusing them. No one, with the exception of politicians in denial, people who know nothing of the system and those with a vested interest in it, would dare maintain Children's Aid Societies act in "the best interests of the child." The truth is the system acts solely in the interests of pseudo-professionals that profit from it.

Because provincial law requires teachers, doctors and similar groups to report the mere suspicion of abuse -- no matter how ill founded -- to CAS agencies, parents live in fear of sending their children to school, doctor, or daycare. Families fear local police forces that partner with CAS and whose members sit on their Boards. It's a well-known fact the police won't charge, nor the Crown prosecute, social workers that lie under oath. In Ontario, the Ontario College of Social Workers is little more than an official apologist for social workers that engage in extreme negligence and misconduct.

At the same time, children placed in CAS foster care and group homes are physically, emotionally, and sexually abused at rates that far exceed any danger they could experience in their own homes or in the general population.

Those who deny the truth by claiming CAS lacks adequate staff to perform their duties properly have little trouble convincing governments to increase their funding. The truth is, in most Ontario communities, Children's Aid Societies are one of the region's largest employers. Their ability to inflict social devastation is further enhanced by hundreds of community professionals including teachers and doctors, numerous intermediary agencies (many with their own political agendas) and an assortment of vested interests. In a word, this grotesquely bloated and unnecessary system is a sham. Because instances of credible abuse are so rare, the system relies on anonymous complaints from those with an axe to grind, unfounded suspicions and the contrivances of malicious social workers. Parents are forced to endure useless and moronic "interventions" intended to control of their lives.

In almost all instances, parents are infinitely more qualified to care for their children than governments that place bounties on their heads. Unfortunately, our elected representatives seem incapable of understanding that child welfare guardians who disgrace their mission so thoroughly have no credibility in their roles and should not be allowed near children. Jurisdictions in other countries have dramatically reduced incidents of so called "child abuse" simply by removing corrupt child-welfare agencies, and the quackery that goes with them, from the equation. The state of political denial in Canada serves only to entrench a corrupt and adversarial system that wastes billions of tax dollars in every province each year and acts in the worst possible interests of the child.