On The Tom Roten Show Talking Dismantling CPS
In light of a report where over 100,000 incidents of a missing child were documented, I call for the elimination of CPS
I was on with Tom Roten this morning.
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We talked about the recent US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report which found over 110,000 incidents of missing children in foster care in a two and a half year period.
Tom noted there was recently a report in West Virginia, where he is located, that several hundred children were missing from foster care. Here is a story on the situation from 2020.
Scores of children in West Virginia’s foster care system are unaccounted for at any given time, and state officials can’t seem to find records about them, according to new information uncovered in an ongoing lawsuit that seeks better protections for thousands of kids under the state’s care.
Lawyers representing the foster kids allege the state Department of Health and Human Resources has failed to turn over “basic information,” including an accurate count of kids in state custody and paperwork about them.
At the end of August, there were 62 children missing from state custody, according to DHHR, and the state has reported 364 kids missing from foster care so far this year.
It’s a huge and nationwide problem which almost no one talks about.
To put this number into perspective, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children put the total number of missing children incidents in 2020 at 365,348.
With 110,000 missing children incidents in two and half years, this comes to about 44,000 missing children incidents per year.
That represents about 12% of the total number- using NCMEC statistics.
There are about 500,000-1,000,000 children in foster care while there are about 74 million children total in the US.
That means exponentially more children go missing from foster care than from their regular homes.
As I said to Tom, there’s two ways to look at this.
Even if we assumed that children were only taken when absolutely necessary, it still means they are better off with their parents than in foster care.
Second, that this number is so high shows that children are not merely taken from unfit homes; there wouldn’t be so many of them missing if they were.
As such, I told Tom that the solution to the foster care problem is the elimination of CPS. The law would only get involved, in my view, if a crime was suspected and then police would be called in.
Tom agreed.
If that doesn’t pass, I also proposed body cameras for CPS caseworkers and a mandatory Miranda like warning before engaging with a parent.
I COMPLETELY AGREE! They are destroyers of innocent souls, uneducated, power-mad, go off of false accusations and are generally obese with no children of their own. They should have been gone LONG AGO. Any attorney that represents them in lawsuit/litigation is SCUM. I CANNOT believe this has gone on for this long.