I served in the Georgia State Senate. And after 4 years of viewing the ruthless and unsparing actions of Child Protective Services, also called CPS which I will use tonight, I wrote a scathing report entitled ‘The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services’. The report cost me my senate seat.

This is not to say that there are not those children in retched situations who need to be removed; there are and we all agree. But tonight, I’m talking about those children removed from their homes intentionally for profit. Children are ceased unnecessarily from their families due to the federal aid created in 1974 entitled the Adoption and Safe Families Act. It offers financial incentives to the states that increase adoption numbers. To receive the adoption incentives, or bonuses, local CPS must have more children, they must have more merchandise, to sell. Funding is available when a child is placed in a foster home with strangers, or placed in a mental health facility and medicated, usually against the parents wishes.

Parents are victimized by the system that makes a profit for holding children longer and bonuses for not returning children to their parents. This is abusive power. It is lack of accountability. And it is a growing criminal-political phenomenon spreading around the globe.

There is a huge bureaucracy made up of judges, court appointed attorneys, Guardian ad Litems, social workers, state employees, court investigators, therapists, psychologists. psychiatrists,foster parents, adoptive parents, on and on who are looking to the children instate care for their job security.

Judges have control over private living arrangements, and income of 48.3 million Americans. The Unites States census bureau reported in 2002 that 40 BILLION in transfer payments were made between households of custody parents and other parents. That money, 40 BILLION, is under the direction and control of family court judges in environments covered with confidentiality laws that protect the wrong people.

Some children had been taken off their school bus, taken out of the hospitals, or taken out of their homes in the middle of the night, and even worse.

Due to the hundreds upon hundreds of cases that I have been called to consider, I placed calls to state senators, representatives in their respective states across the country asking them to help me with certain families. And I was told that ‘If I help that family or if I help you, I will lose my job’.

Remove, abolish the federal and state financial incentives. And those are taxpayer dollars. Those dollars have turned CPS into a business that takes children and separates families for money.