Have you been a victim of Child Protective Services?

@HannahSky did you have a positive experience?

@morrgin I know kids that have and families that have. Did you have some problems?

@HannahSky how can we even know whats been positive and what is negative when these are heard in juvenile court which is not open to the public. The files are sealed so there isnt a way to track them.

[@morrgin are you speaking as a parent or someone else in the system?

@HannahSky In Oregon they don't follow the law and remove children from homes where they are not in immediate danger. Then they make it impossible for family and parents to meet their demands, meanwhile the kids are adopted out and the state takes a cash bonus.

@morrgin did you lose your child to adoption or fostercare?

@HannahSky I seen what they did to my sister, her kids, and my mom. I was incredibly lucky to be raised in a loving home. If anything I was too sheltered. I'm also told my parents should have argued occasionally in front of us so we knew how to handle confrontations from other people. I got to go to camp. My dad taught me how to fish and about computers. We had neighborhood picnics and organized school cook books. A joke between my mom and I is I will need therapy forever because I never got a horse.
My sister got her twins taken away from her because of lies told by a psycho friend that she thought was a friend and had no idea how psycho she was, but hearsay counts and CPS digs and invents things up. My mom finally got guardianship of the twins. Then when my sister went with us to go visit relatives out of state CPS freaked out. They came in the middle of the night because they said my sister never asked permission from them to go with us. They said she should have asked permission. Because my mom didn't think to ask them or my sister if she had permission to go with us they decided that my mom is too easily manipulated by my sister and so she is unfit to have the twins. The twins girls were put in horrible foster homes. There is not enough time right now to tell all the horrible things they did to my sister almost making it impossible for her to get them back.

@HannahSky Luckily no I have not.

@morrgin sounds extremely difficult for your family. I'm sorry to hear that.

@HannahSky Thank you for your kindness. Others have had much worse so we consider ourselves lucky. My sister though has no fight left in her. She isn't able to stand up for herself anymore. She doesn't think she deserves to be treated fairly by anyone.

@morrgin do they have advocates that help families? It's a pretty helpless feeling sometimes.

@HannahSky They work with CPS

@HannahSky and they are for profit the other ones do what they can but they are helpless too and overworked. One group was able to help my sister get driving vouchers for gas to go see her kids because they put them in a home so far away. Then CPS told her she had to drive her abusive ex husband to any meeting or hearings and if she didn't then they would note she is uncooperative.

@morrgin hmm has to be some nonprofit advocacy groups out there. I know in my state they do.

@HannahSky the one group that is non profit do what they can do but they are very powerless and limited in the help they can offer. They mean well though.

@morrgin yeah it's hard, they're usually small. Sounds like you care about your sister a lot.