Alive and Busy, and Watching CPS Videos
I’m alive! And waist-deep in research on 16th-century Turkey, which I’m avoiding by going deep, deep down the rabbit hole of sovereign citizens and out the other side to CPS protesters.
Who are amazing. Someone on Reddit–sorry, I’ve forgotten who–told me that parents whose kids were taken by CPS are similar to members of estranged parents’ forums, and she pointed me to some spots where I could find them, but they never grabbed me. Their posts were too short, their stories too fragmentary. It was impossible to tell what was going on, apart from rampant bad grammar. (But that’s Facebook for you.)
And then YouTube decided I’d watched enough sovereign citizen videos, and served up some “CPS took my kids” videos instead. There’s a whole world of them out there. But it’s video–often video of the event itself, followed by the parent’s take on the event, garnished with Google findings of the parent’s court papers and occasionally served with a spate of newspaper articles as an aperitif. Parents are open about their identities, so you can follow them across platforms and into Pacer records. The only thing missing is the children’s take on their parents.
You don’t have to guess what really happened during the awful phone call with the corrupt lawyer. You can listen to the phone call. You can watch CPS workers make home visits. You can sit in on the meeting with the child’s teachers. Parents almost never say what the (false, malicious) allegations leveled against them are, but sometimes, you can watch it unfold before your eyes.
There are so many videos that I couldn’t choose the best one as a sample, so here’s the most recent one I watched. No details about why CPS wants to take the kids, but the father’s behavior offers some clues.
A less subtle incident:
A not even slightly subtle incident, in which a woman prioritizes filming her visit with her daughter over seeing her daughter:
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What a rabbit hole coincidence, I came across a “CPS Abuse” site a few days ago on facebook, and was immediately reminded of the estranged parent forums. The woman who runs it even mentions that her daughter has denied her contact with the grandchildren not taken into custody.
americastaken.com/articles
“My own near suicide at the loss of my beloved grandson Jake….caused me even further trauma from the guilt associated with suicide and fear of seeking help because I was sure it would affect my case.
I had family members tell me they were sorry I failed….sorry I had lived….and I should try again.”
Either the entire family is meeeeeeessed uuuuuuuup and should be nowhere near a child… or the writer is prone to misinterpreting and misremembering what others say… or the writer goes on and on about how her family wishes she had succeeded until they scream that yes, that’s exactly what they wanted, SHUT UP MOM. Any way you slice it, the writer’s in a bad place to raise kids.
“My daughter in laws(one an ex caseworker) post my personal information on their pages, my arrest information(they disregard the fact that the felony child abuse charges were dropped 2 days after Jake was adopted), and they continue to alienate the other grandchildren from me….furthering my depression.”
Yep.
“So why the need to ostracize me from them? My usual “shoot from the hip” attitude did not fit into the lie my daughter chooses to live concerning her children. When her daughter, my granddaughter asked me if her dad was really her father….I told her the truth.”
“Having been an addict for nearly all of my life has given me a good deal of wisdom. Sobriety has given me the good sense to use that wisdom.”
She also mentions that bipolar runs in the family, describes something she calls “the Pfeiffer Rage,” and was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder by the court doctor. It’s great to be open about your flaws, but this woman couldn’t stop convicting herself if she tried.
Further danger signs:
– No explanation of why she was raising her grandson when her son, the boy’s father, was still around.
– Her son is now “destroying himself” out of grief for the loss of his son. Entirely possible, but I also have to ask whether he started a bit early. After all, he wasn’t raising his own kid.
– No description of the reason CPS took her grandson.
– A single comment about felony child abuse charges against her, dropped the day after her grandson was adopted.
– She spent part of her own childhood with foster parents, albeit good ones. Why? Were her parents abusive?
My father lately said something that illuminated the mindset of a lot of abusive parents, especially narcissistic ones. He was complaining that one of our cats wouldn’t let him scratch her. We told him that he scratches too hard. His response: “Well, I give her tuna, so she should let me.”
(Don’t worry about the cat — my father’s never hurt an animal beyond too-hard petting, and he’s not mobile any more now anyway.)
“But your honor, I took her out to dinner at an expensive place so she should let me!”
Same criminal mindset/transaction in another setting.