The longer the children stay in the system, the longer the agency gets money. And, social workers are the determinants of what is child abuse and what isn't. To add insult to injury, families are routinely billed thousands of dollars for the time their children were in foster care. Their assets are attached or wages garnished to pay the bill. So foster care agencies collect from the federal government, state government and the parents for destroying the lives of children.
Some children die in foster care.
Some children who never experienced sexual or physical abuse in the homes from which they were taken, routinely experience those abuses in foster care. Families quake in their boots at the mere mention of child protection services. Many people would never speak out about child protection agencies openly, they speak in whispers or in the privacy of their homes. They fear the retaliation of having their children taken from them again, so they lick their wounds in silence. The following books researched and documented the horrors of the war against families.