The REAL LOOPHOLES - STATE TERROR

"...no child should fear that if they go missing, no one will try to find them." (WP listed link below)

The LOOPHOLE is a US problem dealing with families. NY Times and Washington Post brings this to light as American is ALARMED over children being ripped from parents arms of those crossing the boarder illegally to secure safer and better lives (17%), or criminal using children as shields (83% of the cases).

A "FORM OF STATE TERROR" as quoted in NY Times.

75% of taken American children from American families are not abuse, and other interentions would have kept families whole, safe and able to build a postive future. Whereas the border issue of Foriegners crossing the border, only 17% of the immigrants are illegally seeking a better life, and not gang or trafficking related criminals.

YET the outradge is skewed, enraging more Americans in a sensitive issue.

We need laws, enforcers and safe environments for our citizens and foriegners. Its the loopholes that are concerning, and the buried information that blurs the issues with cross talk and further upset, confusion and less paths to find workable solutions.

In the American Families THE LOOPHOLE is taking kids in situation that fall under the State claim of neglect harming children. This well funded system is a sinking ship, where things just do not add up and a true audit would pull back an underbelly no one wants to account for on any level.

The situation where a family faces a problem: marital conflict, health concerns, death of a family member, loss of a job, diagnosis of special needs child or an undefined concern that is causing havoc in the family, there are very few options available to resolve and sustain forward paths to secure family environments. Platitudes of keep doing your best job or its has to be tough, do nothing. Agencies across the board saying we wish we could do more but its just not severe enough. The family with limited options and resources continue to spiral down hill. At some point the situation is inpossible and an extreme reaction happens with police, drugs, hospitals, schools, jail or death, and the State steps in. Neglect is the catch all that this should not be happening in a good and normal family. 18 months of case evaluation and investigation ends in a recommendation of not unifying the famiy and adoption to a forever home. Even with years of asking for options to intervene, most agencies have zero options to identify or intervene until it escalates and reaches an extreme situation with no options.

750 children taken from parents a day.

25% are abuse, and have to be taken for protection of the child.

75% then get blamed for neglect for not resolving their current crisis. Parents looking for options receive none, until the thresholds are crossed. This is a failure of social options and a highly funded system.

400,000 children today have orders it's too dangerous to contact parents. Within 18 months they are adopted to forever homes.

30,000 children are in prison. Most are for minor crimes, that good programming would change their lives.

60,000 missing children that are erased in the des system after 6 months as moving on to, WHERE??

Another 52,000 are considered runaways, again after 6 months reset from the system.

75% of the Trafficked children saved have had some contact with foster care. Numbers of mainstream children are skyrocketing as gangs traffick while kids are housed and fed by unknowing parents or look for kids with problems at home. (Profitable model for gangs)

Opioids numbers are rising, and children are dying.

Trafficking numbers will surpass Opioids by 2020, since a reusable product is becoming the main currency in gangs.

One trafficking child has a 7 year shelf life (death) and can make up to $250,000 a year.

Suicide is rising at 45% since the previous years and 25% of our criminal offenses (national is 14%). Kids, parents and people in general see no way out. This we have to address.

At the bottom of this the research shows that early intervention and prevention is vital. Being able to identify and assess pathologies, family systems, trauma and reactive situations is vital. Professionals trained have to step in. Adovocates need to be resources early on with proven programs. State has to be the last ditch effort when nothing else has worked or families have refused resulting in criminal situations and extreme safety issues.

These numbers reveal the signs of a failed system. These loopholes allow numbers to manipulated in a way to continue funding and support programs that are harming families, children and parents. The true damage and cost to children, families, parents and our country are unknown, and wont be realized until all the unintended (or intended) consequences come to light.

There are new solutions. Research has now shown professional trauma training (trauma informed training to understand trauma bonded and moral injury) and options for courts (Key Solutions pilot program in Texas and other locations) that have positive options to resolve these concerns.

Our goal to bring these here, and support good, positive programs that empower families into authentic solutions through crisis whether they stay together or have to build multiple homes for a healthy child/parent relationship. We believe crisis is part of life, and what is important is getting through the crisis in the best way possible. #TheCLOUDDifference

Stigma and fear has the American populus turning a blind eye to their own back yard, while yelling about the immigrants. It's easier to tell about a failing system about third word families.

TAKE THE BLINDERS OFF!

"In May, when the outrage over the separation of migrant children from their parents was beginning to boil, President Trump’s secretary for Homeland Security shrugged off accusations that it was a “form of state terror.” After all, she said, “We do it every day in every part of the country.”

On this point, the secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, is right. Family separation is a fact of life here, happening hundreds — if not thousands — of times a day. “In the United States,” she said, “we call that law enforcement.”"

Read both posts from Washington Post and NY Times and research this long standing concern.

We are dedicated to the families now too scared to come forward in fear of being trapped. Join our efforts.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/family-separation-americans-prison-jail.html

This is just shocking.

"“It’s easier for partisan politics to use the immigrant children disappearances as fuel for whatever case they want to make,” Wikswo says. “But it is far more unpopular for folks to look into their own communities, to get involved in their own local judicial and law enforcement elections and ask for documentation that their representatives are prioritizing the foster network.”

Sharp agrees, adding that negative stereotypes of foster youth make it hard for the public to relate. “I’m now a happily married adult, a Smith College graduate and someone who has always chosen to abstain from all drugs and alcohol,” she says. “But our entertainment industry has a propensity to portray foster youth as criminals.”

My foster children are just as funny, silly, hopeful, smart and lovable as any other kids. It is not their fault they are in foster care — they are the victims of societal failures. Children enter foster care because their parents are experiencing poverty, incarceration, deportation or facing addictions or mental health struggles. They — and their birth families — deserve to know that their time in the system will be safe. And no child should fear that if they go missing, no one will try to find them."

Other sources of information on this topic can be found at National Trafficking Hotline, Department of Justice Violence Against Women & Violent Abuse, JustAskPrevention.org, NOVAHTI.org and many others when you google any portion of this article.

We are developing our own programs we hope to bring to the families looking for answers coming this Fall 2018.

A starting point of what we believe needs to happen for families to find real solutions.

Thank you,

Debbie & Chris Cloud