Double Standard

Legal action for restitution of abuses in the system is increasing as more families, family advocates and concerned professionals are able to make facts known and provide the necessary network of support. But authorities agree that preventive action is critical to stem the tide of children needlessly being forced into the system.

Studies cited by the Family Advocacy Center report that children are as much as 10 times more likely to be abused or neglected in foster care or state institutions than in their own homes.

Though CPS agencies and the child welfare system claim to operate in the best interest of the child, and many of their employees and workers earnestly do try to do so, evidence reveals an alarming double standard between what is considered acceptable child rearing when the child is in the home as opposed to when the child is in the custody of the state and placed in a group home, psychiatric institution or foster home.

A series of bills known as the “Children’s Bills” introduced in the state of Colorado in 1996 illustrate the problem. One of the bills sought to protect children by removing them from the home if it was even suspected that neglect or abuse might occur at some point in the future. However, this legislation also proposed that if those same children were placed in a psychiatric institution or other state facility and actually harmed or abused, the facility would be given 90 days to develop a plan to stop the abuse and 120 days to implement it.

Though the legislation failed, case histories and investigations suggest the child welfare system operates on this double standard. In each of the cases investigated by Freedom, ample evidence existed that the parents had not placed their child in danger. Needlessly removing the child from the home did.

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