Sunday Spotlight
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a family when the system takes a child and then leaves nothing behind. No updates. No court date. No word. Just silence.
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If you're dealing with CPS or DHR, the first thing people tell you is “Get a lawyer.”
This is a part of our #GameOver series. You need resources, knowledge, and truth to fight this system....
The CPS Policy Library is now live. For the first time, families can access the actual rules DHR and CPS are supposed to follow in every state. This is not opinion. These are the official policies, available, readable, and finally within reach.
You are not required to sign a safety plan. DHR’s own policy states that these plans are voluntary and do not change legal custody. This article explains what safety plans really mean, when to be cautious, and how to protect your rights.
Even though Juneteenth has passed, its meaning still echoes. Freedom was delayed then, and for many families today it is still being denied. The right to parent your own children is a fundamental liberty, and yet families across America are losing that right without cause, without fairness, and without justice.
Across Alabama, good mothers are being targeted before they ever leave the hospital. This powerful testimony exposes how the child welfare system is punishing families based on fear, not facts, and why so many are now too afraid to grow their families.
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Seventeen years after Nancy Schaefer’s warning, families are still fighting to be heard. The system hasn’t changed. It has simply gotten better at hiding.
In 2007, State Senator Nancy...
What if I told you the removal of children from loving homes is being incentivized by federal dollars?
This video expose how the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, passed under the Clinton administration,...