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The Deseret News of October 28, 2008, reported that 415 of the YFZ children have now been “nonsuited,” leaving approximately 50 children remaining under court supervision. This sounds like the victory we have all been praying for, and in many ways it is. But the sad truth is that CPS still has not relinquished its stranglehold on these families.

 

Even those parents whose children have been nonsuited are receiving continued harassment from CPS to sign some form of service plan or face possible termination of their parental rights. Parents whose children were nonsuited two months ago or more are still being sent different versions of a service plan every week or so and are subjected to threats and cajoling in an attempt to sign them up for CPS “services.”

 

Signing up on such service plans locks parents into a binding contract with CPS, wherein they must fulfill a set of almost impossible conditions or lose custody of their children. CPS agents are experts at playing this game. One older man representing some of the FLDS children told a parent that during the entire eight years he has been a CASA worker he has never had a single child he represented that has not been put up for adoption or placed in foster care. Our previous article on Willson Jessop indicates just one instance of continued CPS abuse.

 

 

Not only has CPS suffered a serious blow to its pride in the YFZ case, but it has also been deprived of a group of children who are prime adoption material—beautiful, healthy, and compliant. Much of the motivation for separating siblings while these children were in the Texas foster-care system was, no doubt, to make the individual children more attractive for adoption. The unfortunate truth is that CPS all over the nation operates on a system of financial incentives that reward the agency for tearing families apart rather than keeping them together. For each child adopted out of foster care, CPS receives federal cash incentives of $4000 to $6000 multiplied by the percentage by which the state exceeds its baseline adoption number, assigned to each state according to population. There are usually additional state bonuses as well. Thus there is a continual pressure to have a constantly increasing supply of children for the adoption market. (See CPS: They Do This All the Time)

Enough harm has already been done to innocent children and parents. It is past time for CPS to bow out gracefully and leave these families alone.