One of my readers who has worked within the system for a couple of decades noted that many of my stories (blogs, and/or stories within my book Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma) about the Child Protective Services (CPS) and Foster Care system were dated, and she was kind enough to share a few recent stories from her own experiences. What these stories show is that the system has not changed or gotten better, and that federal money is often at the root of most of these problems.
These federal monies encourage foster parents to drug their foster kids because they receive more money by doing so. Also, there are incentives in place to keep children within the system and away from their original parents, even if the parents have been jumping through all their hoops and scrambling to get their kids back. Again, the reason for this is money. The states have become dependent upon federal money. Once in the system, it is difficult to break free from the system.
The stories in this blog are all within the last couple years (2025-2026), and the names, dates, and places have not been given so that my source can be protected. Due to the federal monies and incentives, you can be sure that these stories and others like them are happening right now in every state across the country. If we can eliminate the federal money and follow the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, then this would allow the states to fully be in control of these programs at the local level and most of these problems would be no more.
If anyone else has stories relating to the CPS or state run Department of Child Services, and they would like to share these stories with me, then I would be most interested in sharing stories which may help to keep this subject of discussion alive, to create further awareness of the problems in this system, and hopefully to bring change and an end to the federal funding of these programs, which has caused most of these problems and reduced states power to manage these programs themselves.
These stories are important. No change can come about without public interest in these stories. Please help me to spread the word. If anyone else out there has stories they would like to share with me, then I promise to be discreet and to share no names, specific dates, or places of these stories.
Please email me at: StephenHeartland630@gmail.com.
The following are links to my prior blogs on this subject matter:
BOOK REVIEW – Medical Kidnapping: A Threat to Every Family in America. Brian Shilhavy. 2016
BOOK REVIEW – Part 2: Medical Kidnapping: A Threat to Every Family in America. Brian Shilhavy. 2016
Senator Nancy Schaefer. Her fight for parent’s rights and against the CPS.
Cost vs Benefit Analysis of the Child Protective Services
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RECENT STORIES OF CPS AND RELATED STATE AGENCY FROM AN INSIDE SOURCE
Story #1:
“Within the last year (2025), an eight-year-old male in foster care moved to a new foster home. He shared with his new foster mother that the prior foster father had sexually assaulted him. The foster mother believed his story and reached out to her caseworker. The caseworker believed the child’s story and reached out to her supervisor with her concern. The supervisor did not want to believe the eight-year old’s story because there had never been any complaints about the foster father.
It was not the duty of the supervisor to decide what she thought was true. It was her duty to make a report about the foster father with the proper authorities. In this case the supervisor was more concerned about holding onto a foster parent because they have a shortage of foster parents. In this way the supervisor, by not reporting as she is supposed to do, is not only jeopardizing children that were still in the foster father’s home, but also all future children that would be placed with him.”
Story #1 Commentary:
There are reasons for rules and regulations to be followed. In this case the supervisor did not want to make others aware there may be a problem. If her organization lost this foster father, this could result in less children for them to handle, and less money coming into their program. Money should not be the number one focus. Making certain that the children are being protected and taken care of is more important than money. When one is silent about wrongs which are occurring, then evil prospers.
Story #2:
“During a weekly team meeting we discussed foster parents and updates on individual cases. In one case, there was a brother and a sister who were having problems, and the brother was being overly aggressive. I suggested that we should attempt to get at the root cause of this aggression and animosity and try to counsel the siblings. My suggestion was shut down quickly and replaced with their ultimate solution: have them get a psychiatric diagnosis and then medication. They don’t care about the children.”
Story #3:
“During 2025-2026 I have encountered multiple foster parents who were pushing for diagnoses and medication for the children in their care. If there is a diagnosis then this means more money goes to the foster parent. They actually have rates for children based on the level of care that is needed. It is a numbers game and it’s all about getting the most money they can from the federal government.”
Story #4:
“I noticed flyers concerning Foster Parent Training being available so that Foster Parents could learn common signs and symptoms that will help to determine if foster children had diagnosable issues. The foster parent could then communicate this to the treatment team. Then the children could be diagnosed and medicated and thereby bring more federal money into the system and to the foster parents.”
Story #2, #3 and #4 Commentary:
Again, the motivation is money. Children who are diagnosed and on medication bring more money into the organization due to the way federal funding works. More than half of foster children have been diagnosed and are on medication because there are monetary incentives in place for this to happen. If there was a monetary incentive to keep children off of medication, then the number of diagnoses would be close to zero. Why are we encouraging foster parents to drug their foster children? The answer is federal money.
Story #5:
“One supervisor has a personal issue with the parents of three siblings and is willfully stopping them from having unsupervised home visits. The parents have been doing what is required of them and there do not appear to be any safety concerns within the home. The supervisor wants the children sent to a pre-adoptive home even though the parents have fulfilled their obligations.”
Story #5 Commentary:
Why would the supervisor want to keep the children and their parents apart? Because if they return to the parents, then money will not flow into the system. There are monetary incentives in place to keep parents and their children separated. This is the opposite of what we should be incentivizing. We should be incentivizing children to return to their parents and families.
Other Related Material:
“Foster Care administration is focused on numbers and money. They track time doing paid services. They do not follow up when workers don’t do their jobs. Honest workers are often targeted and made to feel uncomfortable, which eventually causes them to leave.
There have been several times I discovered workers have not followed up with supporting and helping foster care youth and biological mothers as they should. The supervisors are not focused on parents and children, but rather on getting the numbers they need to keep the funds coming.
Workers in these agencies have negative views of the parents and the children. They are not focused on helping children get the treatment they need and getting them back to their families.
Foster Parents are being kept waiting a long time to adopt children. It is all about money. The longer they are in state care, the more money the agency gets.
Child Protective Services (CPS) often gives bad reports to the court even when biological parents are trying hard and jumping through the hoops. CPS would prefer to have children adopted instead of being returned to their biological parents. CPS workers often give false reports in order to keep children within the system.”
Other Related Material Commentary:
We should want honest hard-working people taking care of foster children and encouraging them to bring these children back to their parents and families, but the opposite is happening. The system actually punishes honest workers and rewards dishonest workers who keep families separated, because this means more money flows into the system. If parents do what they are supposed to do, then they should regain custody of their children. But if state and CPS workers lie and deceive the court against the parents, then they are not punished, but rather are rewarded with more money, and the children, parents, and the families suffer, and are kept apart.
Conclusion:
Federal money has corrupted the entire system. If proper incentives and disincentives are in place, then the system will run more smoothly, and the parents and their children will be given respect, which is due to them by the law and the Constitution. But oftentimes, the law is not being followed. The state and federal lawmakers have been corrupted. They have taken money from the CPS, the state-run Department of Child and Family Services, and/or the Pharmaceutical Industry. These lawmakers no longer represent the will or wish of their constituents but are beholden to lobbyist groups that give them money and thereby control them. The people are not being served or protected. Only by creating widespread awareness of these issues and forcing Congress to act, or by a presidential edict can this situation be changed and remedied. The 10th Amendment to the US Constitution should be followed, and no federal money should be allowed to flow to the states for these issues.
If you want to learn more about problems about the federally funded CPS and foster care system, or wish to know more about all the other problems currently facing healthcare in this country, please use the following link to be directed back to the page for my book: Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma: Vaccines, Drugs, and Healthcare in the United States:
Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma by Stephen Heartland
Thank you for reading. Please help to create more awareness for these issues which are adversely affecting parents and children in the United States.