Abusive Israeli Social Workers built a monster that destroys children in order to save them

עובדים סוציאלים שמתעללים בילדים בנו מפלצת שהורסת ילדים על מנת להציל אותם…   

?Think of "child abuse" and what comes to mind

.Probably a child brutally beaten, raped or tortured by a parent

?Think of "foster care" and what comes to mind

.Probably a safe haven for a "crack baby" whose mother just tried to sell him on the street for her next fix  

     

?Think of the services responsible for dealing with child abuse, Welfare Services, and what comes to mind

An agency that intervenes in only the most serious cases, removes children from their homes only as a last resort, and makes one big mistake: Returning children to dangerous homes because some fuzzy-minded law requires it.That is the image of child abuse in Israel painted by much of the nation's child welfare establishment

.That image is false

By portraying horror stories of brutally abused children as the norm, Israel's so called child savers have persuaded us to cede to them unprecedented power over the lives of children. We have given untrained, inexperienced, sometimes incompetent workers the power to enter our homes, interrogate and strip-search our children and even remove them to foster care entirely on the workers’ own authority.    

 

The "child savers" say they need this near-absolute power in order to protect children. They portray any challenge to their authority as a clash between the rights of children and the rights of parents.But the trouble with the welfare system in Israel is not that it hurts parents, though of course it does. The trouble with the system is that it hurts children.

It hurts children who have never been maltreated by disrupting their families, invading their privacy, and jeopardizing the bond of trust that is essential for healthy parent-child relationships. Children are victimized by false allegations of child abuse every day, every hour.   

It hurts children by making it too easy to pull them from their homes and place them in the nation's chaotic system of orphanages and foster care.

    "Orphanages is the garbage dump," says a woman who survived it. "That's what they do with kids when they don't know what else to do with them — throw them in orphanages and foster care."

 The typical kidnapped child is not a crack baby. Far more common are children taken from their parents because the family's poverty has been confused with neglect. Often, these children bounce from home to home, emerging years later unable to love or trust anyone. Far from a last resort, orphanages and foster care often are the first and only answer offered for every family problem.

 Foster care is no guarantee of safety. Some children wind up sleeping in child welfare emergency houses, others end up in institutions that would make Dickens cringe. And the rate of abuse in orphanages and foster care is higher than the rate of abuse in the general population.

 Many of the children now in orphanages and foster care don't have to be there. They could live safely in their own homes and proper services should be available.

Perhaps worst of all, the system does terrible harm to the children who need help the most, those who have been severely abused. False and trivial reports flood the system, cascading down upon untrained, inexperienced workers who already have far more than they can handle, stealing their time and attention from children who really do need their intervention. And that is the real reason children "known to the system" sometimes die of abuse. Contrary to the claims of the child savers, there is no law requiring the return of a child to an unsafe home.

 This is a system that destroys children in order to save them. But it doesn't have to be this way. The Future of our Children Organization supports a series of measures to reform the child protective system from top to bottom. These measures would reduce intrusion into innocent families, curb the needless placement of children in orphanages and foster care, and free up workers to help children who really have been abused and neglected.   

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