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DSS Drugs Kids! It Can't Be Denied, the Proof is all Over the News!

Children in the foster system are drugged by the state up to THIRTEEN TIMES more often than kids in the general population! Don't believe it? Here is the proof!

This week, both ABC & CBS ran reports telling the horrible truth!  Family rights activists and many birth families have been trying to bring this fact to the general public for years.  They have all been treated like a bunch of nut cases for their efforts.  Well now, the major media has investigated, and discovered these folks were right all along.

I have no need to make this a long article, the folks at ABC and CBS have done the legwork and made the courageous decision to air the dirty laundry of the foster system.  There have been many reports over te years warning America there is a problem.  Statistics such as the fact that 80% of the population of State and Federal prisons in this country are "graduates" of the foster system. Foster kids are far less likely to go to college, or even graduate from high school.  Foster kids are abused while in the system at a much higher rate than the kids in the general population.

Who is responsible?  We don't have to look very far.  There is at least one family court judge, and a DSS office in every county in the state.  DSS administers the foster system, and the judges sign the orders that put the children in the system.  There must be a reason for all this, what could it possibly be?  What is the most common motivational factor for almost any illegal activity?  The top of the list is MONEY.

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Thanks to Federal funding, which originates in the Title IV Social Security system, (which everyone is complaining about being broke) all states actually have a financial incentive to keep children in the foster system, rather than assist extended family in caring for kids at risk.  I have outlined this all before so there is no need to repeat it.  All I ask is for everyone to think about these facts:  The FDA specifically states most of the drugs used on children in the ABC & CBS reports are NOT approved for use in children.  Medicaid guidelines specifically state Medicaid will NOT pay for "off label" use of drugs .  DSS administers the foster system.  Doctors who specialize in treating children at risk write the prescriptions. Pharmacies fill these prescriptions, sometimes even if they seem questionable. (Watch the Diane Sawyer report aired of ABC's 20/20 for proof of this).  Drug Companies (big Pharmacology) literally make BILLIONS of dollars selling these drugs.

Don't believe me, believe ABC & CBS!  Watch the reports done by Diane Sawyer on 20/20 and by Anderson Cooper on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.  Do a little research, and you will see it for yourself.  The time has come to take a very close look at the TOTAL system that claims to protect our children, and preserve our families.  That system has much more than just "problems", that system is FAILING!  The very worst par of the situation is the fact that our CHILDREN are the ones suffering.

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Ronald Regan probably did not know just how prophetic his words were when he said: The scariest words in the English language are "I am from the government and I am here to help".

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