Legally Kidnapped Quotes

“Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services is a radical book at its core. It seeks to strike the root of the problem rather than feverishly vying for compromise. This book is a journey inside an agency that has carelessly and often unnecessarily disrupted families throughout the country. With over 400,000 children in the United States currently in the custody of this organization, it is imperative to explore the true intentions and motives behind its work (1). This is a book about Child Protective Services, assembled by a former CPS investigator who has worked to expose the agency; it is dedicated to the past, current and future victims of an agency which has hurt parents and children time and time again. Though it may seem extreme, the information divulged to you is backed by facts and experience.”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“To simplify, the state steals money—taxes—from parents in order to use that money to kidnap children from those very parents. This is why reform may be impossible, for the very nature of the system is unethical and based on the destruction of others.”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“The problem is that the system does in fact benefit those who work in it, and the way that it becomes better for them is to clamp down and destroy more lives while milking those lives for more cash.”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“First, you must understand what CPS is. CPS is a disastrous organization that destroys families for economic gain. It’s important for not only you, but also for your friends, neighbors, and children to know what this agency is. How”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“Foster homes are often where kids go to die. It is time to acknowledge that when the state “fixes problems,” their policies can result in the blood of the innocent dripping on the floor.”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“Children are six times more likely to die in foster homes than if they stayed in an abusive household”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“A study entitled “Abuse of children in foster and residential care” found that “foster children were 7–8 times, and children in residential care 6 times more likely, to be abused than a child in the general population.”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“In “The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services,” former congresswoman Nancy Schaefer outlines how this bill led to children being treated as merchandise. The act offered “adoption incentive bonuses” to CPS for every child that the agency removed. Yet again, the “good intentions” of politicians have led to tragic consequences. There”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“What you must understand is that according to the U.S. government, a parent does not own the rights to care for their own child. Instead, the true responsibility for childcare belongs to the state.”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“Children were strapped down, drugged, mocked, and institutionalized. We addressed their issues with pharmacology rather than empathy, and through coercion rather than care.”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.” —Former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (11)   “I”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” —C.S. Lewis   With”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” —C.S. Lewis   With a belief in the goodness of people, I offer the facts regarding CPS. You can do what you like with these facts, but to ignore them for the sake of comfort is to turn your back on what is right. From the horrific effects of foster homes, to the financial incentives to remove children from their parents, from the Drug War that is pushed forward more by CPS than it is by the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency), to the destruction of families—the good intentions of caseworkers cannot repel these bad consequences of a system that does very little to help those who need it the most.   What Is Child Protective Services?   Child Protective Services (CPS) is the name of the U.S. government agency that responds to reports of child abuse or neglect (3). Not every state calls this agency CPS. Other”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“Humanity knows no bounds to its inhumanity when it puts systems in place that justify its injustices.   Legally”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“You can change government and quasi-governmental agencies and systems from within about as successfully as you can tame a lion after it eats you, and any meaningful change from inside is usually ephemeral.”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“Nearly half of foster children in the U.S. become homeless when they turn eighteen”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“After working for the agency and observing the miscalculations and overt corruption, I’ve found it necessary to expose the exploitative actions carried out in the name of “helping children.” Because we do live in a world where parents abuse their children, it is imperative to acknowledge that the agency tasked with protecting these children”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services