Not only has UNICEF not commented on allegations regarding Kevin Spacey, or any other Hollywood celebrity’s, predatory and manipulative sexual …
Category: USA
Global Child Rights Conventions Misunderstand Children and Undermine the Family to their Detriment by Suranya Aiyar
The Trump Administration should take up the worldwide fight against injustices by authoritarian and anti-family child protection services, a cause already espoused by many in the President’s base. The threat of global child rights conventions arises once again for India as the USA mistakenly pressures us to sign the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Hague Convention). Contrary to what US consular officials in India are saying, the Hague Convention is not limited to inter-parental custody disputes. Going beyond parental custody, the Hague Convention grants powers to any “institution” or “other body” to make cross-country custodial claims over children. This would allow child protection agencies to chase both parents around the world to forcibly extradite their children. The Hague Convention is part of an array of anti-family and globalist regulations that aim to give the State supra-custodial rights over children. What Trump supporters in the USA say against globalism echoes with many of us CPS critics as we struggle to understand how the well-meaning effort to help abused and disadvantaged children went so wrong. If there has ever been an example of the folly of internationalism and unchecked state intervention in private life, it is CPS.
Lawyers And Parents Urge Indian Government Not To Accede To Hague Convention
Human rights lawyers and distressed parents across the country have urged the Indian Government not to give in to US …
When Should a Child be Taken From His Parents by Larissa MacFaquhar, The New Yorker
“The reckless destruction of American families in pursuit of the goal of protecting children is as serious a problem as the failure to protect children,”
Report on Indian and Indian-Origin Children Confiscated by US Child Protection Agencies, August 2017
Suranya Aiyar, a New Delhi-based lawyer, who has been working on a pro bono basis with families facing child protection …
Unfeeling U.S. agencies confiscate children from Indian parents by Siddharth Tiwari, The Sunday Guardian, September 2017
Legal experts, doctors, and investigative journalists alleged that the US child protection agencies were biased and used flawed techniques to detect abuse.
Flawed Convictions: “Shaken Baby Syndrome” and the Inertia of Injustice by Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer
This is a book by Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer which can be bought here “The emergence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) presents …
Birth Parents and the Collateral Consequences of Court-ordered Child Removal: Towards a Comprehensive Framework by Karen Broadhurst and Claire Maison, 2017
A wide ranging study arguing for a more humane approach to parents by the care system in First World countries.
Strange Bedfellows: How Child Welfare Agencies Can Benefit From Investing In Multidisciplinary Parent Representation by Vivek S. Sankaran, Patricia L. Rideout & Martha L. Raimon
Published in 2015. Interesting background reading on how the US child protection system operates.
Representing Parents in Child Welfare Cases by Vivek Sankaran, Law Professor, Univ. of Michigan
“parents typically meet their attorneys for the first time in the courthouse immediately before or just following their initial removal hearing. In all likelihood, the attorney who claims to represent them was appointed (and will be paid) by the same court that authorised the children’s removal.”