Family Justice is a matter painfully close to my heart. The world famous newspaper, The Times, is campaigning for justice for families who have fallen foul of Social Services and the end of secrecy in the Family Courts.
What is going on in Great Britain is scandalous. Children are being removed from their homes on the flimsiest of excuses and due to the imposed 'secrecy', parents are not in a position to defend themselves or even to produce expert witnesses of their own, whose evidence conflicted with the evidence of Social Services 'expert witnesses'. Many of Social Services "expert witnesses" have never met the family they are called to comment upon, yet their analysis is accepted whilst evidence offered by well qualified professional people who know the family well is not accepted.
Parents have no redress, and such is the secrecy that if a grief stricken mother were to kill herself in despair, it would never be made public "to protect the children". Ongoing injustices cannot be challenged "to protect the children". Lies by Social Workers cannot be challenged openly "to protect the children" Yet while these Care proceedings are ongoing in the secret Family Courts, the children in question are often to be found, with their photographs, in magazines offering them for Adoption. This, even before the Judge has made a Ruling.
Interestingly, the agencies who organise adoptions are paid a fee by the Local Authority, and these Adoption and Fostering Agencies are frequently owned or controlled by social workers or their associates while employed by the Local Authority. So, a healthy young white child is removed by a Social Worker on the grounds that the mother was depressed as a teenager and might "emotionally abuse" a baby. The baby is advertised for Adoption by an agency run by Social Workers and the Local Authority pays a fee to the Adoption Agency. Another interesting fact is that Black or disabled children don't feature in the Adoption scene. Adoptees are typically young, white and healthy.
Don't think it couldn't happen to you. All citizens are at risk of the abuses of the Family Courts and as a society, it is in all our interests to let Justice to be seen to be done. No more false accusations, no more trumped up charges, no more distortions of fact. No more casting the medical professions as Health Police with a duty to invoke Social Services, as once a 'policing' element is introduced between a person and a professional who might cause the family to be ripped apart, all possibility of a trusting, therapeutic relationship disappears, never to return.
So many babies are being taken from their mothers at birth "in case" of "emotional abuse" that responsible, well thought out people, are having to advise teenage girls never to let anyone know if they feel depressed or have eating disorders or mood disorders and also to stay silent on the subject of rape or assault. The advice is being given because letting anyone official know these things - anyone who might write them down - is providing a hostage to fortune and could well initiate an official process to remove a future baby at birth because the perpetration of "emotional abuse" in women who has suffered these things would be more likely and Social Services see it as "Breaking the cycle of Abuse"
There are too many nebulous, ephemeral and vague theories that, in the hands of overzealous, undereducated, unwise, over-powerful and unscrupulous officials can damage a family for generations to come. As a society, we cannot afford this amount of devastation and we therefore should support the campaign for more transparency in the Family Courts. We are already suffering the effects of family breakdown in terms of anti-social behaviour. Wholesome family life must be encouraged and rewarded instead of introducing grave systematic damage that makes the whole of society suffer.
But don't take my word for it. Here are some Times pages that should be read very widely.
Parents Protecting Children and link to Campaign
Place to Sign Up to The Times Campaign
Support for Falsely Accused People
National Society for Children and Family Contact
PAIN - Parents Against Injustice
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