Child Protective Service Created A
Gestapo Police State
Child Protective Service Created A
Gestapo Police State
Paul Craig Roberts
My generation and that of our
children grew up without Child Protective Service (CPS). We stand up
very well compared to subsequent generations.
Child Protective Services is an
extremely intrusive government agency that would not have been tolerated. The
power of this police agency trumps parental rights and responsibilities. The
agency is an important part of the destruction of liberty that I have witnessed
over my lifetime.
The Gestapo power that the state now
wields over parents is a creation of “child advocates” who believe that it is
the function of government to protect children from parents. One
consequence has been to erode parental control and to effectively end it in the
case of rebellious children who respond to punishment by calling CPS and
reporting their parents. CPS has powerful incentives to seize
children as it justifies the agency’s existance and brings a federal payment
for each child seized.
There are reports that many of the
seized children end up in the hands of pedophiles, but governments seldom want
to hear that they are doing harm rather than good.
Why has child safety changed so much
over my lifetime that children need a police agency to protect them? Why
could I and my 5 year old classmates walk alone to our neighborhood schools,
for example, but such a thing is unthinkable today. Could the
destruction of homogenuous neighborhoods by “diversity” have anything to do
with it? Could the redefinition of the parental control of my day as child
abuse have anything to do with it? Could all the forces that have
broken up the family have anything to do with it? When I grew up
children had parents, two sets of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins all in
the same geographical area. There was tremendous support for
marriages and children. Divorce was rare compared to today. Families
went to church, an important mission of which was to inculcate and reinforce
moral and ethical standards of behavior. The father’s income was
enough to support the family, so mothers were at home to provide child and
household services. Today both parents have to work.
The support systems have been swept
away. Corporations have transferred employees to relative-free
geographical locations, thus increasing the stress on marriages. Divorce
has broken up families, creating animosity where once there was support. Mass
immigration has brought “multiculturalism” where once were shared standards. Identity
Politics has produced a disunited population.
Over the course of my lifetime I have
watched the destruction of America’s social capital—the shared norms,
understandings, values, cooperation, and trust that make a society functional. In
the dysfunctional society in which Americans live today, government tries to
glue things back together by exercising more power, regulating speech,
controlling explanations, and imposing more constraints on human action.
The consequence is the death of
liberty and individual responsibility and the erasure of a nation.
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