From a link on FB 1-15-19:

A father in Marion County, Indiana pleads with Facebook users to share the photo DCS took off Facebook and used it to keep a case open after they failed to find him unfit. The social worker with the Indiana Department of Children’s Services (DCS) agency told the father that the picture was “inappropriate.” DCS has had the child in their custody for the last 15 months. Originally, DCS tried to find the father unfit but failed. They have not returned his child and recently used this picture to keep the case open and the father was told that he had to be watched, even though he has passed all of their tests and they could not find him unfit.

(The photo was of the father holding his infant against his bare chest.) DF

CPS Contradicts Hospital Recommendations

Many people commented that hospitals encourage skin-to-skin contact for parent-child bonding. Some parents believe that the state agency has an interest in destroying parent-child bonds to make it easier for them to steal children by reducing and interfering with the child’s attachment to their parent. Then they believe they will have less trouble with the child’s behavior when they separate the child from its father or mother. I have verified this with a former worker that I know.

It remains a mystery why DHS has decided to pull this picture off Facebook and pick on this father once again. It could be as simple as the worker doesn’t like to lose, or perhaps she was thinking about job security and how much the state makes every time they adopt a child out.

Child welfare is an industry, and industries are self-protecting ecosystems. ~ Molly Tierney

Social workers are paid to take children. In order to stay alive, this industry needs other people’s children. The state makes money every time they take a child, terminate parental rights, and adopt the child out. The state receives money from the federal government through Title IV B and Title IV E of the Social Security Act (SSA) which address major components of child welfare.

Monica Szymonik, Mom’s Unshackled Connecticut. This is the tip of the ice burg.

DF—both these issues, while some may say they are not true, point out the continued serious problems parents face in today’s world, and the serious faults in child protective services many states.