It is mind-boggling how many families have been crushed under the mighty hammer of CPS, especially here on Steemit. I have read so many heart wrenching stories time and time again of how CPS ripped children from loving parents for absurd reasons.

This morning I woke up, made some coffee, and checked GINAbot, as this is my normal routine. There was a comment on one of my posts that was truly disturbing. A woman was browsing the net for cat pictures, and she stumbled across this post I wrote about CPS. Her username is @arayanz and she joined Steemit just to comment on my article. She said this:

You don't know me, this is my first time posting on this platform.

I came across your posts about CPS quite by accident. I was looking at pictures of cats! But I've had my nightmare with these people and I hate to scare you but they won. I ended up losing my daughter to her father who was at the time a drunk with several recent DUI's against him, was a 2X convicted felon, AND who's been shot by the police for aiming a gun at them. He'd also been in and out of mental wards. One who doesn't know about these people would have to be thinking, "geez, how bad were you that he was the better option?" That's got nothing to do with it, as a matter of fact CPS was grasping for anything they could get and ordered psych evaluations on both of us. The psychologist testified that I was the better parent and should have my medically fragile daughter returned to me. This has nothing to do with what's best for the child. It's got everything to do with them doing exactly what they want to do with little regard for the child and 0 accountability. In short, they do what they want how they want when they want.
I'm not going into my ordeal it's really irrelevant to your situation and was 13 years ago. I will say that it happened because I managed to piss the social worker off.

Anyways the reason I wrote to you was to tell you to get a police scanner app. You'll know when they're coming. That is if they think there will be trouble OR if they're coming to take your kids. Broadcastify works great and works on PC and it has a mobile app. Here in Ohio they go to people's houses at 11:00 P. M. it's ridiculous but I hear the calls come across all the time. Most are well after 9.
Here's another thing, I wouldn't give them anything without a court order. Not a urine screen no pill counts - NOTHING. Unless you or your husband has a drug charge or you admitted to a drug problem there's no reason for it. I'm going to tell you something else and I'm sorry to scare you but they LOVE to (it's a favorite tactic of theirs) to create a situation where you have to choose between your children and your husband. They will determine that he's "unfit" and you will have to get rid of your children's father. At that point you are unable to provide appropriately for those children and often they end up taking them anyways. I'm not trying to scare you, but I've seen them do this a million times.
Be careful my dear, I'm so sorry.

Another story CPS ripping a child away...

Another story of CPS not even listening to the recommendation of the professionals they employ...

Another broken family...

I wrote this back to her:

First off, welcome to Steemit! If there's anything I can do to help or if there are any questions you have, feel free to ask! Sometimes the beginning of our journey here is a little bumpy. There's a new initiative I just learned about thismorning called @welcomewagon and they may be able to be of service to you as well! It is customary for your first post to be an introduction. You would write one under the tag #introduceyourself (I don't know how much you know about Steemit lol). I'm following you now too! :)

Ok, now that that's out of the way...I'm so,so sorry that happened to you. Sounds like a nightmare. It's obvious that they just do what they want, and I've seen several instances now where they don't even listen to the recommendations in the professional's evaluation. Thank you for the advice on the police scanner...I tried several apps on my phone, but there were no options to listen to the scanner in my county. I recently bought a computer, so maybe I can find something that works using that...

Every story about CPS is relevant, because people need to be aware of what they're doing. Please consider writing a post using the familyprotection tag and tell your story. I would love to read it and learn more about what happened to you. There are many at @familyprotection who I'm sure would support it. They are spreading awareness about CPS, and helping families.

One of my greatest fears is that they will stumble upon my articles and I will piss them off that way, because I know how arbitrary they can be. So far I haven't heard from them in over 2 weeks, so I don't know what's going on...They spoke of pill counts and drug tests because when they interviewed us, my husband admitted to taking my ADD medication. I think my mom also suspected that we were smoking pot and told them that, because they asked about marijuana use several times. After they came, he stopped taking my pills, and we aren't doing any drugs, so the UAs would be clean. This whole situation is a mess though...

Thank you for your comment! I hope to see you around! :)

I really hope she stays.

If you've ever been a victim of the corrupt actions of Child Protective Services, @familyprotection is here to support you. Tell your story, and help spread awareness about what they are doing to innocent families like yours and mine. A couple other people who come to mind are @ladyreijya and @novacadian. I know it might be hard to think back to those memories, but keep in mind that your contributions to the @familyprotection tag will not only help get the word out, but will also help others not feel so alone.

Just a friendly reminder that we're here for you when you decide to make that post.

Thanks for reading!

Love, snowpea ❤

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