CPS: "Umm, we've lost 114,000 children."

"Child Protective" "Services" (CPS) isn't very protective of anything, except their own privacy, corruption, incompetence, and sketchy records, etc., as it turns out. As the article cited below points out, 114,000 children are those ADMITTED by CPS, nationwide, to have gone missing since 2000...that includes 53,000 foster kids listed as "runaway," and 61,000 listed as missing.

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Here is the link:

https://www.boston25news.com/news/missing-and-forgotten-thousands-of-foster-kids-kicked-out-of-the-system/755376482

Here is an excerpt from the link above:

"A nationwide investigation...uncovered a patchwork of policies with some states able to close a missing child’s case after just a few months, while others have policies on the books to keep missing cases open until the child turns 21...

A new federal law now requires all states to report missing foster kids to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Washington, D.C. area. But even now, the center tells us that’s not always happening. 'There are agencies out there that have been known to close these cases and then, therefore, no one’s looking,' said Bob Lowery, vice president of the center’s missing children’s division."

We can not stress enough that 114,000 is just the number that CPS has been willing to acknowledge. The truth is probably far, far, higher. Given there are roughly 440,000 kids in CPS (USA) custody at any given time, aged 0-18, (an average of about 24,000 kids of any given age) over the past 18 years there would have been almost 900,000 kids in custody since 2000. which means 1/8th of them have been ADMITTED to have gone missing. The truth is probably 1/4 or more...

So, if we know that--when the decision is about to be made that children should be removed from a given family--that one out of four of them (or, generously, five or six) will wind up without any home AT ALL, why are we still removing any children from families? These are the types of questions that are very, very inconvenient for the CPS milieu.

As the article makes clear, until recently, many states did not even keep records of missing kids, and a patchwork of reporting procedures, again, makes the reported numbers suspect. While moves have been made at the federal level to clean up this situation, all the government can do is pass "laws." But, CPS are past masters at skirting and ignoring laws; and, when they do, the incestuous relationship between CPS and the various quasi-"courts" that, along with CPS, benefit from each child seizure, covers for them and helps them avoid the consequences of their lawlessness. In short, passing laws often means very little.

Now, we can understand how foster homes can lose kids. Some kids are just darned good at running away, and given the trauma that removal from their family environments inevitably creates, its' actually surprising that even more kids haven't become runaways. But we don't know how many kids that run away do so from foster home situations versus how many kids run away from other types of CPS placements. Sadly, we also have no idea how many of the kids listed as missing (or even as "runaways") were actually trafficked into the sex trade (or other types of human trafficking) as a direct result of CPS personnel's actions. We sure aren't going to get accurate reporting on THAT, ever.

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All in all then, the runaway/missing statistics are just another very good reason not to permit CPS to have the power to remove children from their homes at all. As many are beginning to join with this blog in insisting (including the Republican Party of Texas) CPS should probably just be abolished, and the correct process--i.e. law enforcement making these decision based on PROPER court procedures and due process--should be allowed to take over where CPS has so badly failed all of us.

It IS possible, because people are gradually waking up to the fact that despite the ludicrous sums of money being wasted on them, CPS basically does nothing positive for the nations they "serve" with their bogus, self-serving and rapacious "services." The tide is beginning to turn.

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President Trump has been more vocal about "human trafficking" (personally I wish he would say "child sex trafficking" as this would make cleared what is really going on here) than most recent Presidents, and he has even been instrumental in getting legislation through Congress that should help to keep more children with their families. This will help. But he could, of course, be doing so very much more, although...well we've talked about Jeffrey Epstein's black book ad infinitim...at some point he may be seriously implicating people he probably doesn't want implicated.

In the final analysis, the responsible for all these missing kids lies with us. These kids would not ever have likely gone missing in the first place if we, as a people, had been more involved in holding our government and our "law makers" accountable, and done more to expose CPS's irreparability.

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We must all continue to give a face to these statistics. That is the only way we will ever get the critical mass to affect change. In the mean time, we need to support groups that do take in missing children, and that are active in looking for them and getting them off the street and from their pimps. The article cited above does allude to some of these groups, so go review that information if you are so inclined to help.

We must stop talking about doing everything "for the children" and actually start doing something to actually protect them... from the monsters we've created.