Research and statistics on the state of the united states
foster care system
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Since ASFA passed in 1997 billions of dollars have been won in lawsuits against states Department of Children & Families for wrongful child removal, fraud, RICO, constitutional rights violations, and abuse in foster care.
In 2014 Gaige Clark began volunteering as policy advocate for children and families analyzing federal and state legislation surrounding Title IV-E of The Social Security Act. It was concluded the law at present is harming families rather than helping them.
Research has proven Foster Care does more harm to children than good.
Foster parenting is a paid endeavor and attracts financially unstable troubled individuals.
many foster parents were looking for monetary gain and some looking to harm children.
It was also uncovered that in cases of child support, and alimony, there was intentional custodial interference by judges as they are provided grants that fund oftentimes wrongful interference.
These secret courts by design have no transparency, oversight, regulations, due process, jury trial and the judges have immunity. This has created an epidemic of fraud, criminal RICO cases, and the destruction of a generation of parents, children, and families.
Research studies, statistical analyses, and Senator Orrin Hatch's report in 2017 illustrate the alarming number of Americans who were and to this day are harmed by AFSA. The proof or harm has been not only ignored, but suppressed, and obfuscated. Legitimate Academic research that proved children left in troubled homes fair better than foster care was ignored to keep the flow of Title IV-E money into states.
These funds were coming from the safety net of hard working Americans who unknowingly since the 1997 ASFA bill had their social security dollars funneled by the billions into each state to fund the unnecessary removal of children from families and place them into foster care. These Title IV-E funds are also used for the nefarious Guardianship industry of taking control of the mentally ill, disabled and elderly members of families all for federal dollars.
The research and analysis discovered, the 1997 The American Safe Families Act, ASFA, created a “cottage industry” funded most reliably when children were removed, placed with strangers, and adopted out of their family of origin. Removal opens the door to funding. The strongest financial incentives in the system activate after a family is broken apart, not before.
This created a money machine for states and became a powerful well oiled system of wrongfully removing children instead of supporting families in need. Media campaigns were developed to glamorize foster care, demonize single moms, or struggling families. The breaking up of American families and the removal of children became an industry. Entire media campaigns were designed to recruit and virtue signal that being a foster parent was helpful.
In fact research has proven it does more harm to children than good. Foster parenting is a paid endeavor. Research has also proven it attracted financially unstable troubled individuals who were looking for monetary gain or to harm children.
Media, lobbying, and legislative groups were privately funded solely to capture public opinion, influence laws, and sway legislative votes.
August Anchor supports the growing movement of Americans working to change the federal financial incentives to states that activate after a family is broken apart, not before.
These federal funds should be available before a family is broken apart.
At present funding laws of Title IV-E of the Social Security Act weaken American children, women, & families.
We are working tirelessly to take AFSA Title IV-E social security funds away from the "cottage industry" of wrongfully removing children and bringing these funds back to strengthen American children and families.
