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Cartoons:

Prosh
pro
amateur

Cartoons by Linda Prosh and other professional and amateur artists.

Smirk

Social worker smirk.

Goldilocks

50,000 children are abused by mom and dad.

FLDS

In April 2008 CPS seized over 400 children from a settlement near Eldorado Texas.

The Judge

No comment.

Music:

Legit

I'm Legit. A mother and adopted child long for reunion.

Angel

Song by Martina McBride, Concrete Angel (mp3).

Precious

Precious Child by Karen Taylor Good (mp3).

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Temporary Home by Carrie Underwood.

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Hide Your Children from the album A Better World by Tom Little.

watching

Theme song for social workers by the Police (mp3).

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Theme song for fosters in it for the money.

YouTube
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Alice Cooper on social workers.

flac

Pet Shop Boys read their parenting capacity assessment.

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I'm Really Glad they Made the Children's Aid Society. Promotional jingle for the New York Children's Aid Society used in the 1980's.

uprising

Muse, uprising. Theme song for opponents of CAS.

Sister

We're Not Gonna Take it Anymore by Twister Sister. More opposition music.

Hands

Hands, sung by Jewel.

Ave Maria

Beautiful classic banished by political correctness.

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Stabat Mater. This medieval poem captured the sadness of Mary watching the death of her son Jesus on the cross. Here is one version of the words in latin with a translation. The music is the version by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi from the sound track to the movie Amadeus.

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Money for Nothing by Dire Straits has been banned from Canada's airwaves by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. They don't like the words of the appliance hawker. Posted here as a public service.

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Play Me Backwards. Joan Baez supports the satanic ritual abuse moral panic.

rien

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien sung by Edith Piaf. This is one way of coping with the destructive force of family law.

life

Bring Me to Life, by Evanescence. What it feels like to be a foster child.

Dropkick Murphys

State of Massachusetts, by Dropkick Murphys.

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Dave Flook performs comedy before a cyber audience, twice.

On a more serious note, weekly podcasts (mp3): Sept 11 Sept 18.

YouTube
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Voca-People sing acapella. Not affiliated with Dufferin VOCA.

Era ♦ Bach ♦ Handel ♦ Scott Joplin ♦ Mr Sandman ♦ Glenn Miller / Little Richard ♦ Beach Boys ♦ Doobie Brothers ♦ Madonna ♦ Michael Jackson ♦ Eurythmics ♦ Mory Kanté ♦ Nirvana ♦ Spice Girls ♦ Macarena ♦ Rednex ♦ Britney Spears ♦ Baha Men ♦ C+C Music Factory ♦ Will Smith ♦ Erick Morillo

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Video parody comments on propriety of copying music.

Truth stranger than fiction:

For other stories belonging in this section check the index under bizarre.

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Florida DCF and police investigate a twelve-year-old girl who kissed a twelve-year-old boy. November 2011.

tax

For people who think adoption is not about the money, here is a list of tax benefits (in the USA) for adopters.

strange

Images stranger than fiction.

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How can you help foster kids who have to move a lot? Donate your old luggage! Prepare love luggage! Two reports present this seriously, not as a spoof. WCNC Charlotte NC (undated) and KGET Bakersfield California on May 2, 2008.

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(both links mp3) A staffer at radio station WWWQ in Atlanta pulls an April fool prank (2009), but DFACS has no sense of humor.

Grinch

How the Child Protection Industry Stole Christmas (pdf). Every person attending a school event must be cleared for criminal background, and it is unsafe for any unaccompanied adult to be in the presence of children, to guard against accusations.

toddler

American toddlers face arrest as terrorists and sex-criminals.

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Ever feel the urge to strangle that ornery judge? Watch what Melissa Harvick does to Wayne County Kentucky judge Jennifer Upchurch Edwards.

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Video from Sky News

May 1,2008

Babies Thrown From Temple For Luck

You've heard of the term "bouncing baby". Well this is what it means for the people of Solapur in India - dropping babies from the roof of a temple into a bedspread fifty feet below - apparently for good luck. It's believed it makes the children strong.

Reunion

We could not make up this shotgun divorce story (mp3).

Human rights

Another unbelievable article that is nevertheless fact, not fiction.

First call
Second call

(mp3 files). Social worker Erin Satoor speaks to a father about visiting his son. The second recording occurred some time later, after a complaint to the agency about the content of the first. Can you detect the lie?

rescue

A lawyer's account of the rescue of a baby from CPS.

sociopath

Profile of a social worker, posted by the Exit & Support Network, dedicated to assisting persons leaving cults, and available even to social workers.

Works by Children:

kids

A collection of notes and drawings by children.

Lawyer

A boy's opinion of his (court appointed) lawyer. File in pdf format.

Esther
Mark
Dunn

Poems by foster children Esther, Mark apprehended at age 14, and former foster child John Dunn.

Halifax

Foster children in care of Halifax Children's Aid started a newsletter about their living conditions. These drawings are from the first issue. In later editions, editorial control by social services changed the passion of youth to the torpor of bureaucracy. The entire series is at youthnewsletter.

Posters:

IamCAS
notCAS

I Am Your Children's Aid. Advertisements promoting CAS and reality by clients. There are slightly altered versions for print advertising. These are very large high-resolution pictures: Candy, Nick and Orlena. A later campaign, We Are Your Children's Aid (pdf).

UK
Canada

Fathers-4-Justice produced posters on family law, along with some photogenic stunts. Also, a set of high-resolution advertisements

posters

A collection of posters relating to family law.

Parody:

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Parody images.

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school homing

Parents are electing to have their children school-homed, turning over parental guidance to schools. We hope this remains just a spoof.

Scarfolk

A town in northwest England frozen in the 1970s.

Alexander
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Disco tribute to Dr David Southall, British courtroom expert who sent many innocent parents to jail. As an infant the creator, Lawrence Alexander, was a subject of medical experimentation by Dr Southall.

fog

As a public service, we remove the fog around a CAS pronouncement.

snatch

Manual for British social workers. Local copy.

hunting

Regulations for hunting social workers.

Winnie-the-Pooh

Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne

Perjurer

The kinds of social worker.

Advice

Off-topic advice for saving your marriage.

Wheel Runner

Murine parent tries to satisfy demands of social worker.

toys

The ultimate in safe toys (pdf).

test

Take this test to find out whether you have the skills required for social work.

childhood

Psychiatric medicine has finally recongnized the condition of childhood syndrome. Clinical indicators include dwarfism (small stature) and legume anorexia (failure to eat vegetables).

Havidol

This spoof, created by Justine Cooper, of a drug for a new psychiatric disorder is so convincing that it took in many viewers, including medical professionals, in the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York.

Security

Defend your home against social workers.

Rights

Your rights under the Child and Family Services Act.

Poetry:

Call for Change Joseph Sarandos Warning to Parents Joseph Sarandos CAS Sonnet Anne Patterson The White Man's Burdern Rudyard Kipling Ode to Richmond Ron Smith I Read the News Today Anne Patterson True Story Ian Josephs Social Worker's Poem Ian Josephs Why Mark DFC Esther Joy Phillips It's the Law Jennifer Davy Your Community Social Worker anonymous Bound by Confidentiality John Dunn County CPS unknown There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Jan Smith A Silly Poem Crimson Rose It's Enough To Break Your Heart anonymous Love, Mommy Susan Lost Innocence Irene Renee Petit

Hate:

Hatred of families, mostly toward fathers.

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Hateful images.

Husbands

Dallas Texas campaign smearing husbands, and internet response.

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In political correctness the main contribution of a father to family life is beating up his wife and kids. The Monsters is an example of the hate now put out under this doctrine. Link to news.

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Building-supply store chain RONA runs tv ad hateful of fathers.

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Two advertisements from the ISPCC (The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).

PSA

Public service announcements on child abuse are permeated with hatred of fathers, occasionally mothers and stepdads. [1] [2] [3] [4] (all mp4).

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Baby shower for expectant mother.

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Anti-family bias runs so deep that the Canadian government can distribute a warning against marriage as a public service announcement.

YouTube
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Josh Jasper thought his television commercial, which depicts a baby as a future rapist, would teach viewers about violence prevention.

Instead, thanks to YouTube, the ad has triggered an international firestorm and death threats for the Dubuque man, who heads a nonprofit advocacy group for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

In a letter to Jasper’s bosses, an Australian viewer called Jasper a “man hater” and a “mangina” who should be fired. Another offended viewer put it this way: “You would be better off dead.”

Jasper, the president and chief executive officer of Riverview Center in Dubuque, said the backlash prompted him to call police and change his personal information on Facebook from a married father to “single.”

Posted June 28, 2010.

Lawyer

What lawyers really think of parents (pdf for Windows only).

Tragedy:

Mothers Day
Christmas

Holidays

Herod

Artists from Roman times to the twenty-first century show the massacre of babies by King Herod's soldiers.

Dionne

In 1934 five identical twin girls were born to a poor family in Corbeil Ontario. To prevent the father from profiting by turning the girls into a sideshow, the Ontario government seized custody, then turned the girls lives into a nine-year sideshow. They grew up touch-deprived.

Schoonover

A father's open letter to his stolen son Elan Lee Montgomery Schoonover.

Dorian

Story shows that the distress of abduction exceeds even that of death.

Angel

Song by Martina McBride, Concrete Angel (mp3). It makes suitable listening to accompany the following page.

Tombstone

List of children who died in state custody.