New Project: Freedom Flash Fiction

I have a new project I'm working on - which consists of writing flash fiction on freedom topics... sort of a fictional representation of what life could be like if we had enough freedom, or what it is like if freedom is repressed by outside influences. My decision to write flash fiction is natural for me; I am a long-time fiction writer. I've often written flash fiction while doing my daily writing practice.

I keep my collection of flash fiction in my Google Docs and occasionally pull them out to share. Recently I posted three of them over at Writing.Com. This was the first time I'd actually used that site and honestly, I wasn't too impressed. Surely there are better places to connect with other writers!

Daisy and the Freedom Field is one flash fiction I wrote several years ago. Though that isn't the kind of freedom writing I'd like to post on this blog, I offer the link as an example of the type of short fictional writing that I do.

Fiction writing, like any art, is a way of sharing truths in a way that will attract hearts. When we're teaching about freedom, it is needful to get the attention of those whose hearts we wish to reach.

Never Say Never - Fight For Your Kids!

If you're fighting CPS for your children - never say never. Keep at them - like forever! What I mean is that you're a parent forever, once your children are born. If your children are taken away by child protective services injustice, and if your parental rights are terminated by termination of parental rights (TPR), they are still your children by GOD's law if not by man's law.

So regardless of TPR, pray for your children. Pray to be reunited with your children. Register at websites that are there to reunite children with their God-given birth parents. Make websites for your children. Look for them on Facebook and other social media sites and make your own page so hopefully they can find you. Leave your markers on this world.

Write about your children, using their names and tell what they mean to you. As these children get older they will no doubt be curious to learn more about their birth origins and they'll be looking for you.

Consult an attorney to see if there's still anything that can be done legally to fight back against the child protective services system. It could be that the statute of limitations has tolled, but what about taking your story to the local county grand jury? What about making your story public in local newspapers? Don't let the CPS jerks get away with the injustice they've committed. They deserve to have their faces rubbed in the misery they've engendered. They deserve to be imprisoned! If there's anything you can do to make that happen, turn your energies to that project.

So I'm just saying - yes, you've received a horrible traumatic blow if you've been targeted by CPS for their unjust child detentions and family destruction - totally unconstitutional.. no due process, no family rights. No respect, no decency. But you as an individual parent must pull yourself up in the world. Stay away from destructive mind-altering substances and anything else that would keep you from accomplishing something to shut down and expose the terrible child protective services injustice system.

Get an education. Get an income. Create an honorable life for yourself. Make your voice heard. Be the person that your child can someday come to respect once the separation is healed. Be good to yourself. Even if the CPS jerks are rude and cruel, you know you are loved by God... and treat yourself with loving kindness. Your children are depending on you to do that.

Fighting CPS for Grandparents

Nobody needs to agree with me. Even if I face opposition, I will protest the evils of child protective services as long as I need to. However, a lot of people do agree - most of them, because they've had children taken from their families by this over-active, family-destroying government agency.

It isn't only young parents who are feeling the pain. Many grandparents are traumatized when their grandchildren are placed in foster homes. Though the CPS rules state that extended family members should be given Kinship Care rights before a foster home is considered, that rule is often violated so that grandparents and other family members are left with the quandary of looking for legal help, paying a juvenile court lawyer, and spending many days, weeks, and months in a state of mental torture and pain.

Often it is grandparents who the children are taken away from. If a grandparent is raising grandchildren in lieu of the parents for any reason, that family group becomes an easy target for a CPS agent, because the grandparent has no legal standing in court to be given a reunification plan and an opportunity to get the child back. Many hearts have been broken.

In Riverside, California, a couple managed to get Kinship Care rights for their very young granddaughter. The parents weren't able to complete their service plan and/or weren't able to get their daughter back. Their parental rights were terminated by the county juvenile court when the child was two years old. The grandparents who had her all those months adored her completely and were ready to adopt when CPS workers showed up at their door and informed them they no longer had grandparent rights as the parent's rights were terminated. They removed that beautiful young girl from the family she loved and placed her with a lesbian couple for adoption. The grandparents never saw their beloved granddaughter again. They had no rights to protect her from this outrageous government agency. They protested for months. They went to court. And nothing they did made any difference. They eventually had to give up because their granddaughter was lost to them forever.

So, for all those who think "It could never happen to me" there are many thousands of heartbroken, traumatized Americans (and this happens in other countries too) who are grieving and will never fully recover from violation of family rights. This kind of experience eliminates our abilities to trust anyone, especially our government. This is why I fight CPS... to give those who are suffering legal information and support they need while they're going through exceedingly dark days of despair.