Drawing from court records, case files, media reports, and personal interviews, the author discloses how the child protection system is, in far too many instances, overstepping its function. Vague definitions of child abuse allow maverick social workers to pull children from safe environments and put them in foster care, where they are often emotionally, physically, and even sexually abused. Other children have been knowingly returned to unrehabilitated parents to be brutalized again. With insufficient checks and balances, the system that was designed to protect children has become the greatest perpetrator of harm. Social workers are poorly trained and, for the most part, unsupervised.
Foster homes are sometimes far more abusive than the child's original environment.
There are ways to protect your family from deleterious and unconsti- tutional government intervention, however. It is vitally important that the child protection system be over- hauled before even more harm is done. The author calls on parents to wake up and move to stop this trend before it's too late. This book of horror stories is true. The deplorable and unauthorized might of Child Protection Services is capable of destroying any home in America.