DCF is Massachusetts is ruining families
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Jan 3rd, 2016Someone from Brockton, MA signed.
Jan 2nd, 2016Someone from Berkley, MA writes:
I've never been so humiliated in my life. I live and breath for my 2 daughters, everything They want, private school and everything I can do to give my kids a better life Than me. My 14 yr old has always had social Issues, and at her adolescent years Is having a hard time. We had her admitted For help, and "by law" the hospital had to Notify DCF. Thank you DCF for personally Ruining my life. 20 yrs in law enforcement Clean honest living. Now to be accused Of neglect. The only one in our house, Neglected, is me.Jan 1st, 2016Someone from Quincy, MA signed.
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Dec 31st, 2015Someone from Belchertown, MA writes:
and here's my prayer that the children and families are helped not hurt anymore ... and the ones being help against the families will are reunited ....REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 29th, 2015Someone from Brookfield, MA signed.
Dec 28th, 2015Someone from Weymouth, MA writes:
Dcf is talking there time they took my one month old 2 months ago. I have no service plane and they let the family that has her take her out of state for 2 weeks. All they want it to drag there feet on a bull******report. There are many problems were conflict of interest are involved and still the judge let dcf keep my baby. I have never had them in my life with my older child. They also want me to enter a program that I can't get into cause I don't drink do drugs or have any violence in my life. They are trying to brake me and my husband up and we have a great relationship.. Mass dcf/cod is a joke I know a girl who found out her son was sexually assaulted and dcf was told opened a cars and let's her bring her child back to the person who did its house every weekend.. He is not the child's dad.. There whole sistem is bull******and they make******up to keep kids who have living homes and parents..REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 26th, 2015Someone from Everett, MA writes:
I am adding my name cause i am a state worker (not DCF ) but i can not tell you ow many things are covered up papers thrown away files go missing and nothing is done! I have worked for the state for 15 Years and I am so ashamed to even say it, I am working on a different career! The state is broken in all areas ! DCF makes me sick and all state offices need to be closed and PRIVATIZED!!! I can't stand that these people come in your home make a fast option, take kids that ruin them for the rest of there lives and there family is broken and ruined!!! They ruin your name as a parents and it is horrible! Also these so called mandated reporters are a JOKE and they should be pt in prison for making up lies and they are not SUBJECT TO PUNISHMENT cause they are MANDATED REPORTERS that lie and I have seen this FIRST HAND!!!! SHAME ON THE STATE OF MASS TO KEEP THIS GOING ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They need to be punished for lying but they know they will not be so it keeps on going on!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 26th, 2015Someone from Brookline, MA writes:
It is not enough to complain or send petitions. They do not work. To get rid of DCF or to do a complete overhaul you need to take grassroots action by exposing them at every street corner where they are located and in front of every court house.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 26th, 2015Someone from Brockton, MA writes:
The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families is used my state employees who are involved in highly contested custody cases. There should be a regulation and law to prevent the use of state power to obstruct court proceedings and fraudulent 51A reports. Especially where the paramour is a married department head, same agency as DCF, and the staff is a subordinate. In the private industry, he would be sued for sexual harassment or at minimum terminated. Not in Massachusetts. High-ranking officials can engaged in proven sexual relationships while married with married subordinates and nothing is done. And then assist spouse to use DCF as a tool to muddy custody disputes and parenting time. The rules of evidence should apply in investigations, co-workers should not "this is what she needs to do so he does not have custody," sort of conduct.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 24th, 2015Someone from Brookline, MA signed.
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Dec 23rd, 2015Someone from Rumford, RI signed.
Dec 22nd, 2015Someone from Chicopee, MA writes:
Dcf took my 11 month old baby Nov 30th. I have had dcf in my life since Jan 2015 because I was on a prescribed medication and I have a past of substance abuse but was clean for almost 2 years. I was told dcf would be in and out as long as I complied. I signed all my releases before my baby was born provided clean urine and completed my service plan. I had a verbally abusive relationship with my son's father well over Thanksgiving weekend there was an argument the kids were hidden in the room while I was packing to leave cops came and everyone left. Well Monday my worker called me told me to make a plan and she would see me at 2 I made arrangements to leave but at 11:30 there was a knock on the door 2 dcf people and an officer they took my son. The 72 hour hearing is ******** I didn't get a lawyer until after I saw the judge. I have went to every visit provided everything food clothes formula lotions etc for my child he is at a home where they don't speak english. They asked for a phyc evulation which took 2 days and 5 1/2 hours total I had to take a leave of absence from school, I put a restraining order on my son's father, I have been in domestic violence therapy, personal counciling, anger managment, put on depression and anxitey med due to this, taking weekly urine, did intake for woman's empowerment groups, and have a pt job, and start parenting class Jan 4th and go back to school Jan 18th. In less than a month I have done all this without bring told or signing a service plan they say they aren't concerned about my parenting just my relationship which has been ended. I have stable housing and have not let these people break me, I have a 10 year old son who lives with my mom and has severe ADHD and emotional problems DCF has went to his school 2x and he is traumatized by this he is having separation anxitey because of his little brother being taken and is afraid to go to school because he thinks they will take him. My mom is being harassed by these people. They have lied to me numerous times about my son and at my visit last week noticed his cheeks very red and dry and his skin the same and a bad diaper rash mind you I was told days before he was fine then the visit told he has an ear infection I asked why don't they bring him back to the doctors and was told he has a doctor's appointment more than a week later, that is neglect from them ignoring my son's health and asked if my worker can check on my son about these issues and she couldn't communicate with the foster parents because they don't speak english. This is an outrage I have nightmares about my children being hurt and taken anxitey all day and I'm doing everything I can think of to get my baby back he looks very sad and doesn't have the sparkle in his eyes he had when he was with me. They try to use anything and everything against you last court date they were reading my drug screens wring when I gave them the paper on how to read them. I feel helpless and that my rights have been sREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 21st, 2015Someone from Vernon, VT signed.
Dec 21st, 2015Someone from Shrewsbury, MA signed.
Dec 18th, 2015Someone from Three Rivers, MA signed.
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Dec 17th, 2015Someone from Pepperell, MA writes:
Put a price tag on our kids! Thats what dcf is doing! They dont help or do anything when it comes to abuse or drunks. They would rather hand a child over to an abusive drunk instead of saving them a life time of tramua and torcher. Its wrong that they claim to help and protect children and familys yet they lie! And the ones who get hurt are our children.Thank You Dcf for adding the salt to already tiny bruises!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 17th, 2015Someone from Pepperell, MA writes:
Put a price tag on our kids! Thats what dcf is doing! They dont help or do anything when it comes to abuse or drunks. They would rather hand a child over to an abusive drunk instead of saving them a life time of tramua and torcher. Its wrong that they claim to help and protect children and familys yet they lie! And the ones who get hurt are our children.Thank You Dcf for adding the salt to already tiny bruises!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 17th, 2015Someone from Fitchburg, MA signed.
Dec 17th, 2015Someone from Maynard, MA writes:
My only children is married already. So, I have nothing to do with this people (DCF) but... I agree, the only job they have is take de kids way from the parents. They NOT CARE about the kids. They just want to make money over the KIDS. My question is: Why the DCF people do not have a real JOB? Like... Constroction, housekeeper, housecleaner, then......They will make a honest money!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 17th, 2015Someone from Mattapan, MA signed.
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Dec 16th, 2015Someone from Malden, MA writes:
DCF is the worst system. They do whatever they can to keep you and your family away from the kids. So they can keep kids in foster care for 1 year then they can put them up for adoption The state gets federal funding for each child they adopt and if the child has a disability (which DCF tries everything in their power to have your child diagnosed with a disability) they get even more money. I don?t know how these workers can lay their head down at night know what they do to families and children; I fought until I got my kids back. They did everything in their power to keep my kids from me. But I was not giving up they tried to make me lose my job my apartment everything so they could tell the judge bad things about me. I did everything in my service plan and still they kept them from me. I finally got them back 3 years later after going to the commissioner?s office and fighting with them. This system needs a real clean up. They have destroyed my children my youngest has severe separation anxiety because of them and my oldest has PTSD. I would love go in front of the Governor and show him all my papers and show them everything they put me through. It?s a shame a real shame they are allowed to go what they do.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Fitchburg, MA writes:
Hi my name is samantha serrano im 25 years old since Aug 2012 i had dcf in me and my childrens life its been hell ever since having them in my life dcf worker always saying there going close my case intill they give me a new worker and keeps the case open longer or either 51as getting reported and keeping them even longer so been going through hell the past 3 years it is now Dec 2015 kid got tooken Dec 11 2015 because of my daughter having iron definitely for 2 years been off and on liquid iron that does not agree with her stomach and pukes right after when given to her or even sometimes refuses to take it for me been trying to fine different ways to give her the iron that she needs had pediatrics west for a year they alway gaven me problems with her iron every time i go in there office they did not help with other Solutions so i took my kids out of pediatrics west and have them going to Burbank family practice which they been awesome over there they been trying to help me with different solutions to help her get her iron that she needs. we been try gummies daughter refuses them we tryed little juice packets to mix with juice daughter refuses it then now we have her on Flintstone chewables with iron she likes them somedays but sometimes not always my kid also go to a daycare that i thought was great for them but in the end not really so great been though hell with the daycare got called on 3 times with the daycare with stupid reports on Thursday dec 10th got a call from daycare saying my daughter was dizzy when waking from her nap and looked pale did not ask me to pick her up then they got home got a call from dcf worker she needs to get checked out that same day or friday morning dcf said they call me back in 15 mins to see if see can get seen so i tryed to call there doctor to see her that night she did see him that night dcf never called me back also had an appointment in the morning to be on the safe side with dcf and they said she was fine so i get a doctors note so she can go back to daycare that same day so i send her to daycare on friday dec 11 so i can do laundry and wic shopping same day was borrowing my friends truck that day to make things possible for that day so when i come home waiting for my kids to get home to get off the bus dcf with 2 cops cruisers pull up to my house saying they where taking the kids because of my daughters iron definitely also told me the daycare called today dec 11 because i sent her in sick even though i got her seen plus a note for her that day and trying to say i refused to give my daughters iron medicine to her when ive been trying for 2 years to find ways to help her and also trying to get doctors notes and records to prove ive been doong what i need to fpr my kids and she also had a doctors appointment today for the iron doctor dec 15 also had a scheduled ride for that appointment to talk about giving her ivs which i would take her to every week if had to. Could not even bring her to because of there *REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Fitchburg, MA writes:
my son was taken in the middle of the night litterally at the age of 4 over a seriously bogus false alligation from a teacher stand in his summer program , my son was non verbal and autistic and used to bang his head off floors and cry becuse he coukdnt communicate and we his parents had already had local services in place i was very much an advocate for him. i was in school and worked my husband worked iwas a tarined EMT and disabled home health care worker and the stole my kid like he was nothing , we didnt do drugs alchol ect we have a clean home ect....well my son was placed in the brigde home in fitchburg ma and he was molested by a staff a male staff and so was another child and they found out the removed our son into a mental intiution in brighton mass and placed on a non FDA approved medication the dose alone for a 4 years old is the dose i have had to adminsiter to adult clients of mine whom wieght is 200lbs , but this is ok my son has seen horric things in DCF care he was molested and internal investigations came and went the state covered it alllll up , no one not one f ing person was held accountable ....i resurched everything i could i read the dcp policioes and armed myself and when i started asking his caseworkers questions they revoked visitation or cut hours ,,i say my son on his 5th birthday drugged out of his mind . my son repeatdly had bruises on him all the time and when questiond the gave me bogus stories ...i did get my custody back , why becuse we are good parents and the judge i presented all the eveidence to understood that the system is courpt , parents are being taken advantage of every day ..we still have nightmares we are terrified still and have severe ptsd i cant stand knocks on a door i cant even have a phone ringer on , we are still in thereapy my son though he is verbal and apears normal he has night terrors horrific memories triggerd all the time he is almost 10 now , this state makes me sick i was born and raised by a great family of police and firemen ....and as a teen i some how was thown into the system myself the kid that didnt belong i know your courupt sytem inside and out . massachusetts needs to change these ways these cover ups and lies these courpt brainwashed asshats running baby stealing barracks ! you lied to me my famliy and your doing it to others dont keep using some drug addicted half wit parents that go and kill thire children as an excuse to support you lies and the fact that your using our kids as science experiments and cash cows !!! you make me sick my kid and so so many other kids and families deserve justice we want a f ing public aplogy directly from the very person who stole or caused harm to our kids you got me !REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Fitchburg, MA signed.
Dec 15th, 2015Someone from Belchertown, MA writes:
I'm not saying all are bad but this is bad one admitted to me we take children before a service plan I said that seems basically extreme especially if the child is with the parent family bondREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2015Someone from Granby, MA writes:
Different issues here, his father hurt him during a visit yet DCF didn't bother to follow through on the ivestigation, didn't contact any of the witnesses only his side. The pedetrician was completely against him going to unsupervised visits court did not cared and forced them anyway. The system is broken for everyone involved.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 13th, 2015Someone from Norwalk, CT writes:
My daughter is going through the same problems with Connecticut DCF. There is little recourse and they use accusations (not proven evidence) as the reason to remove children. The Justice system takes so long that there is little chance for quick justice to prevent this tragedy and the horrible ramifications of removing children from their home. In fact, many judges and lawyers are afraid of DCF and will not go against them no matter how badly the parents are treated or how unjust the act of removing small children from their home. There is no outside, independent organization to review the material DCF uses to justify their actions in Connecticut. Legislative representatives say they just can't help any individual cases. In the meantime, very young children are ripped away from all they know and/or prevented from seeing their parents except for very limited times. There is no due process, there is no review of DCF reasons or actions, there is no review of DCF placed restrictions on seeing or communication with removed children, there is no justice and the ones that are hurt the most are the children DCF pretends to protect. My first and only contact with DCF has been frightening. I am even afraid to display my name because DCF retaliates if they suspect you may be contacting legislators or other government officials with information that may make them look bad. This experience has convinced me that as far as DCF is concerned I might as well be living in Nazi Germany or Russia. They claim we our a free country but not where DCF is concerned. Neither the parents nor the children are considered to have any constitutional rights, not even the right to due process. Unfortunately the ombudsman in Connecticut is part of DCF itself. It is akin to asking the fox to watch the chickens. Something must be done. There is so much harm being done to parents and children in the name of child protection and few other Americans are even aware of it until they unfortunately come in contact with DCF/ I am at a loss of what to do, who to contact, or how to fix this. This molehill has become a mountain..REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 13th, 2015Someone from Belchertown, MA writes:
Should be called destroys families and children not dept of families and childrenREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 12th, 2015Someone from Dorchester, MA signed.
Dec 12th, 2015Someone from Belchertown, MA writes:
I lost to them I hurt everyday because of the damage they didREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 12th, 2015Someone from Shrewsbury, MA writes:
I was a child of the DCF system myself. When I was 17, I ran away from my foster home. I made some poor choices, yes I know, and became pregnant. I was just barely 18 when my baby was born, I was broke and had no family or social support at all. I was scared, but I loved her. My DCF social worker convinced me that signing over temporary custody to them was the best idea for both of us. I would have some time to get on my feet. The biggest mistake of my life was signing those papers. They took her straight from the hospital. A week later, I contacted DCF and informed them I was ready to take her back, they then filed a 51A and gave me a service plan. I met all the stipulations they asked of me: get an apartment, a job, attend counseling and submit to drug tests, I complied with all and never had a dirty urine, but they dragged my court case on and on. The foster home they had placed my daughter in had hopes of adopting her. My DCF worker, my own DCF appointed lawyer all said it would be best if I just signed custody over: It had been almost a year of struggling with court and "the fosters were the only parents she has known" they said. Even the judge one day told me that to keep fighting for custody was comparable to the mothers aboard the Titanic as it sank who refused to hand their babies onto the life boats, "if you really love her, you shouldn't let the baby drown too" he said. It broke my heart. I never got the chance to know if I could be a good mother or not. In the end I lost custody. It had been over a year and I had met every demand, eagerly attended every supervised visit. I don't think I ever stood a chance.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 11th, 2015Someone from Whitman, MA writes:
I am heartbroken and lost, I have been since they took my daughter five years ago because I had a brain aneurysm which made my behavior a little off, however my daughter was very well taken care of and very happy. She was 9 and now she is 14 and I havnt had her the whole time. Dcf lies, cheats, and will do anything to steal your children. I am a good mom to my 9 year old son, and they have no problem with me being with him, so how does this make any sense? it doesnt... shes in the system and there is just no way to get her home! I feel like giving up though I still havnt. I have a new lawyer to call, another one, again, on Monday and we will see how that goes. The brain surgery caused permanent brain damage and severe memory loss, I also have just found out i have bleeding in the brain (also caused by the surgery they pressured me into by using my kid as a pawn) and I could potentially die if I dont now have a very very dangerous brain surgery, which I am refusing. I hate DCF I hate everything they stand for, why does there even need to be this department? cant citizens tell police when children are being hurt then they can take it from there and place with another family member or in foster care, without the help of a corrupt system as dcf? I do not understand!!!! I also had a few 51A's filed for absolutely ridiculous reasons, which were all thrown away right away, yet now they say i have a history with dcf, yes a history that was said to be false, yet you bring it up now, also lied and said i was involved because of drugs, they ended up crossing it out with a pen, and re writing it (i still refused to sign) because it wasnt true. A dr called because she missed an apt when she was an infant but that day I took her to childrens hospital because the drs simply were not getting anywhere. My daughter has a very rare disease called NPS, Nail Patella Syndrome, when DCF told me the worker said "its a death sentence" I was hysterical then later found out, they have no statistics on deaths of people with NPS , so why she said it to me that way ill never know, however my daughter has already had one major surgery in her knee and the dr advised she stay in the hospital atleast a cpl weeks if not more, and she was removed at 9 pm AT NIGHT the second day after her procedure, also while she was healing and heavily medicated they moved her placement and the first day she went there she fell, ended up peeing on her cast which they asked her to clean up so when I got there she was not in her cast she was in severe pain due to not recievin her meds and i was terrified about the fall possibly having hurt something in her knee, luckily it did not damgage anything any further, but she fell because they refused to help her into the bathroom, SHE WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR AND HAD JUST HAD MAJOR SURGERY! AND HAD NOT BEEN SHOWN HOW TO USE A TOILET OR EVEN GET UP BECAUSE THEY REMOVED HER FROM THE HOSPITAL BEFORE THE PHYSICAL THERAPIST COULD EVEN SEE HER! i could go and on, sREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 10th, 2015Someone from Southbridge, MA writes:
Change is so needed this is blunt criminal action right in the eyes of not just the people, but this group that we call our government.....I'm in the same situation as many here & as I read these stories I see a caparison of DCF lies & deceit as well as cases where there isn't a imminent danger to these children the only danger is DCF....REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 9th, 2015Someone from South Easton, MA writes:
DCF has taken my baby daughter from my girlfriend for a clerical error on their part. Went to our 72hr hearing and were told the court is too busy! Try back on the 18th we will see if the judge will have time then! So much for rights and civil liberties. I have never been more ashamed of being a citizen of this state who owns 3 businesses and does the right thing. You hear all the horror stories on the new, but nothing gets done about it. They are like the CIA and not held accountable for ruining children, and families. This must stop!REPORT COMMENTS
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