Angela Castillo revealed her story at a public hearing. Two policemen and two social workers showed up at Angela Castillo’s door and took all four of her children away, the youngest being only five months old. The police, stated Angela, “said it was for ‘neglecting to give a prescription order to my son.’”

He charged that “The first contact by caseworkers is in effect a probe to ascertain the family’s vulnerability on these bases.”

According to the available statistics of the American Public Welfare Association (APWA), compiled from 31 states under the Voluntary Cooperative Information System, roughly 40.4 percent of the children in foster or substitute care in 1990 were black — more than triple the contemporary ethnic proportion of 12.3 percent of the U.S. population.

“From my own experience, the poor, uneducated, strongly religious, and ethnic groups perceived to be without power are targeted for state intervention that generates federal fund claims for the state,” said James Roger Brown, sociologist with the Sociology Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. The center has extensively investigated abuses of the Child Protective Services system in different states.

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