Former foster parents are going on the record to give chilling accounts of the flagrant abuses of power within the DHR system.

While most people become foster parents because they want to help children who do not have families to care for them, many are learning—too late—that plenty of these children do have families who care for them. These kids end up in the system not because they need to be removed from their families, but rather because they were legally kidnapped by a corrupt organization with no system of checks and balances in place. This puts foster parents in the unwitting position of becoming accomplices to a moral crime.

The tragic truth is, CPS is stealing children from families who love them and are doing the best they can. Some of these children have been abused and neglected, but others are victims of a system that makes it easy to use children for revenge. In far too many of these cases the government could set the families up with assistance for food, housing, and other needs that aren’t being met, but instead they view the children like a paycheck. They remove children, they meet their quotas, and everyone is

What can these foster parents do about the situation? Not much. When they complain to their superiors, they are threatened with having their foster homes shut down. This leaves them in an unfortunate position: either leave the program and risk the children being placed in another foster home that may be abusive or continue taking kids in despite their conflicted feelings.

We are Robert and Kathleen Raskin of Las Vegas, and we are raising awareness of abuses in the foster care system because too many children and families are falling through the cracks. The crooked system is hurting foster parents too, and it’s time to put an end to it once and for all. Won’t you join our fight?