In Canada, only HEALTHY mostly Caucasian, pregnant girls and women, were targeted and systematically rounded up by government social workers and falsely imprisoned in warehouses for pregnant young women. These warehouses were referred to as "maternity homes." Non - Caucasian pregnant girls and women were left alone because their babies were not in demand by infertiles. Infertiles DEMANDED healthy Caucasian newborn infants and the governments of the day from post WWII until the 1980s committed criminal acts in order to supply this demand.
Infertile couples were provided access to these government funded and religious run maternity facilities to inspect and choose their "pregnant girl."
The pregnant young women were subjected to lectures from infertiles who explained why they couldn't have a baby and how much a baby would mean to them.
The pregnant minor's parents were lied to about the physical, sexual and psychological abuse these pregnant young women would be subjected to.
The babies were then abducted from their legal mothers under an illegal hospital protocol that targeted single mothers for their healthy white infants. These healthy white pregnant girls and young women (usually experiencing their 1st pregnancy) were exploited for their reproduction and used to supply the insatiable demand of infertiles who had lined up for babies on government adoption waitlists - the same government department that was exploiting and abusing these pregnant young women.
The government via the medical profession and hospitals, social workers and religious organizations colluded and conspired to abduct the babies from these mothers on the delivery table to meet the demand. These professionals who had first sworn an oath to "first do no harm" breached their code of ethics and committed criminal acts in order to facilitate the abduction of these infants.
These pregnant girls and women WERE NOT aware that they were being systematically targeted for their babies. They completely trusted the professionals and could not believe for one moment that there was an ulterior sinister motive to abduct their babies at birth.
All of the parties, and in particular the medical profession should be held criminally accountable for abducting these mothers' infants and aiding and abetting in the transfer of these same babies to unrelated strangers.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Babies Abducted in Canadian Hospitals | rabble.ca
Monday, April 23, 2012
The 2-Year Window | Mother Jones
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In The New Republic this week, Jon Cohn has an eye-opening piece, "The Two Year Window," about advances in the science of early childhood development. It opens with a description of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a study that removed infants from warehouse-style orphanages in Romania and adopted them out:
It was ten years after the fall of the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, whose scheme for increasing the country's population through bans on birth control and abortion had filled state-run institutions with children their parents couldn't support.... The new government remained convinced that the institutions were a good idea—and was still warehousing at least 60,000 kids, some of them born after the old regime's fall, in facilities where many received almost no meaningful human interaction. [Neuroscientist Charles Nelson] prevailed upon the government to allow them to remove some of the children from the orphanages and place them with foster families. Then, the researchers would observe how they fared over time in comparison with the children still in the orphanages.
…Prior to the project, investigators had observed that the orphans had a high frequency of serious developmental problems, from diminished IQs to extreme difficulty forming emotional attachments. Meanwhile, imaging and other tests revealed that some of the orphans had reduced activity in their brains. The Bucharest project confirmed that these findings were more than random observations. It also uncovered a striking pattern: Orphans who went to foster homes before their second birthdays often recovered some of their abilities. Those who went to foster homes after that point rarely did.
This past May, a team led by Stacy Drury of Tulane reported a similar finding—with an intriguing twist. The researchers found that telomeres, which are protective caps that sit on the ends of chromosomes, were shorter in children who had spent more time in the Romanian orphanages....It was the clearest signal yet that neglect of very young children does not merely stunt their emotional development. It changes the architecture of their brains.
…"The concept of disrupting brain circuitry is much more compelling than the concept that poverty is bad for your health," says Jack Shonkoff, a Harvard pediatrician and chair of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. "It gives us a basis for developing new ideas, for going into policy areas, given what we know, and saying here are some new strategies worth trying."
What's new here isn't really the idea that experiences in early childhood are important. In fact, in the era following the Second World War, the idea that habits established early in life are permanent was, if anything, belabored too much. "If mothers did not nurture their infants properly," Jerome Kagan wrote in 1999, criticizing this widespread belief, "their children would be vulnerable to a dull mind, a wild spirit, and a downward spiral…This view of development rests on the assumption that every experience produces a permanent physical change somewhere in the central nervous system, and therefore the earliest experiences provide the scaffolding for the child's future thought and behavior."
What Kagan was criticizing, though, was primarily the idea that particular styles of parenting were necessary to produce well-adjusted children. Generally speaking, that turns out not to be true: You don't need to play Mozart to your baby or jump through hoops to make sure she's properly "attached." Most middle-class kids turn out okay even though they're exposed to a wide variety of parenting styles.
But Cohn's piece is about something different: It's about kids whose infancy is, to put it bluntly, fairly appalling. And not just in warehouses in Bucharest. Diana Rauner visited child care facilities in Chicago while she was working on her doctoral dissertation and "described facilities where infants were strapped in car seats, 'watching The Lion King all day,' while the older kids were 'circling the room almost like sharks' and throwing things at the infants, because they had nothing else to do." That kind
of environment, it turns out, can cause permanent cognitive damage, sometimes at a biological level, and it's probably a lot more common than you think.
You can see more of the evidence for the importance of early childhood in the chart on the right, which I posted earlier this year. It comes from James Heckman, probably the preeminent researcher in this area, and it shows average achievement test scores for different classes of children. All show the exact same dynamic: Gaps show up as early as age three and persist pretty much forever. Some of this is due to genetic differences, but not all of it. It's also due to differences in children's early environments. The lesson is simple: If you want to have a real impact on how kids do in school, you have to get to them early.
But even this understates the benefit of intensive early interventions. The payoff, in general, doesn't come in higher test scores, anyway. A large and growing body of research suggests that it comes in other behaviors: for example, the ability to delay gratification, the ability to hold a job, the ability to control your temper, and the ability to stay away from drugs and alcohol.
The problem, of course, is that early intervention costs money. Lots of money. According to Cohn, we currently spend about $11,000 per student in K-12 and about $4,000 per child under the age of four. That's crazy. But if we wanted to equalize that spending, how could we do it? One option is just to raise more money. But if we spent $11,000 for every child under the age of four, that would come to over $100 billion per year in new spending. There's no way that's going to happen.
Another option would be to take the pot of money we already spend and equalize it: spend about $9,000 per child all the way from ages 1-18. Unfortunately, this is hardly any more likely: If we tried to reduce the amount we spend on K-12, teachers unions would go ballistic, ed reformers would go ballistic, and suburban parents would go ballistic. If I were a benevolent dictator, I'd do it anyway, because it would almost certainly be a far better use of our existing money. But I'm not, am I?
Still, this is an area that cuts across party lines and deserves far more attention than it gets. The evidence has been mounting for a long time that intensive early interventions produce a huge bang for the buck, far more than what we spend in primary and secondary schools. The problem is that the bucks have to be spent now, and the bang doesn't arrive for another decade or two. Where's Bill Gates when you need him?
from the article, dated Nov 2011: "Orphans who went to foster homes before their second birthdays often recovered some of their abilities. Those who went to foster homes after that point rarely did."
Friday, April 20, 2012
Parents Regain Custody of Son After Six Year Legal Battle | fox4kc.com – Kansas City news & weather from WDAF TV – FOX 4
Parents Regain Custody of Son After Six Year Legal Battle
Posted on: 6:11 pm, February 21, 2012, by Rob Low
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RAYTOWN, Mo. — Seven years after he was born, a Raytown boy is finally living with his biological parents. Noah Bond’s birth father fought all the way to the Missouri Supreme Court to get his son back.
Until August of 2011, Noah was living in Texas with a couple who wanted to adopt him and who had raised him since he was an infant. But the birth father, Craig Lentz had never agreed to the adoption and his girlfriend, Ebbie Bond says she only did so under duress.
Noah Bond is now seven-years-old, but his birthday in December was the first he ever spent with his parents. It was December 2004 when Craig Lentz filmed the birth of his son when his girlfriend gave birth. But during a bout of what she says was postpartum depression, Ebbie Bond agreed to give up custody.
Lentz’s name wasn’t on the birth certificate so he had no legal standing to stop the process.
“When we went to get it, there was no record that Noah was ever born.”
More than six years of legal battles followed with Stuart and Megan Taylor, who refused to talk with us the one time we caught up with them outside of court.
“Somehow the Taylor’s had changed Noah’s birth certificate without ever having an adoption and that if I died in the accident there would be no record that he was ever born and he would’ve just disappeared into Texas and that would’ve been that,” said Craig Lentz.
The accident Lentz refers to was a car crash on Highway 350 in June of 2010. He died on the operating table twice only to survive months of painful rehabilitation and more delays to his expensive custody battle.
“If you’ve got a college education and you’re able to raise a million dollars and you have a strong faith in god that you may eventually get part justice,” Lentz said.
Justice for Craig and Ebbie came in August when Craig was finally awarded permanent custody of Noah.
“I knew a time when I missed him so much and I wanted to see him every day and every child I ever saw reminded me of him and know I can get up in the morning and see him, see his face I don’t just have to imagine his face,” Bond said.
Now, in first grade, Noah’s parents say he’s adjusted well with the help of therapy.
“These people played keep away for six and a half years and now Noah’s returned to us, they wouldn’t even participate in the therapy that was ordered by the court,” Lentz said.
FOX 4 asked Noah if he wondered why he wasn’t living with his biological parents when he was living with the Taylor’s in Texas. Here’s how he responded.
“I didn’t know they were my mom and dad,” he said.
When the Taylor’s handed Noah off in August they left him a letter explaining they would be cutting off all contact.
“He needs to attach to Craig and Ebbie and the family he will be a part of,” Taylor said.
“I didn’t think I could love him more but my love has just deepened so much from actually being able to take care of him,” Bond said.
Craig Lentz was allowed visitation with Noah over the last six years but it was limited and Ebbie Bond wasn’t allowed to see him at all because legally, she had given up custody. But there’s nothing to keep her from seeing Noah since now that Craig has custody and the two are still a couple.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
BBC News - Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth
13 April 2012 Last updated at 19:26 ETLittle boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth
By Robin Banerji BBC World Service
An Indian boy who lost his mother in 1986 has found her 25 years later from his new home in Tasmania - using satellite images.
Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He was travelling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India's trains. "It was late at night. We got off the train, and I was so tired that I just took a seat at a train station, and I ended up falling asleep."
That fateful nap would determine the rest of his life. "I thought my brother would come back and wake me up but when I awoke he was nowhere to be seen. I saw a train in front of me and thought he must be on that train. So I decided to get on it and hoped that I would meet my brother."
Saroo did not meet his brother on the train. Instead, he fell asleep and had a shock when he woke up 14 hours later. Though he did not realise it at first, he had arrived in Calcutta, India's third biggest city and notorious for its slums.
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End Quote Saroo BrierleyI do not think any mother or father would like to have their five year old wandering alone in the slums and train stations of Calcutta”
"I was absolutely scared. I didn't know where I was. I just started to look for people and ask them questions."
Soon he was sleeping rough. "It was a very scary place to be. I don't think any mother or father would like to have their five year old wandering alone in the slums and trains stations of Calcutta."
The little boy learned to fend for himself. He became a beggar, one of the many children begging on the streets of the city. "I had to be quite careful. You could not trust anyone." Once he was approached by a man who promised him food and shelter and a way back home. But Saroo was suspicious. "Ultimately I think he was going to do something not nice to me, so I ran away."
But in the end, he did get off the streets. He was taken in by an orphanage, which put him up for adoption. He was adopted by the Brierleys, a couple from Tasmania. "I accepted that I was lost and that I could not find my way back home, so I thought it was great that I was going to Australia."
Saroo settled down well in his new home. But as he got older the desire to find his birth family became increasingly strong. The problem was that as an illiterate five-year-old he had not known the name of the town he had come from. All he had to go on were his vivid memories. So he began using Google Earth to search for where he might have been born.
"It was just like being Superman. You are able to go over and take a photo mentally and ask, 'Does this match?' And when you say, 'No', you keep on going and going and going."
Google Earth image that helped Saroo find his way home
Eventually Saroo hit on a more effective strategy. "I multiplied the time I was on the train, about 14 hours, with the speed of Indian trains and I came up with a rough distance, about 1,200km."
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Saroo Brierley spoke to Outlook on the BBC World Service
He drew a circle on a map with its centre in Calcutta, with its radius about the distance he thought he had travelled. Incredibly, he soon discovered what he was looking for: Khandwa. "When I found it, I zoomed down and bang, it just came up. I navigated it all the way from the waterfall where I used to play."
Soon he made his way to Khandwa, the town he had discovered online. He found his way around the town with his childhood memories. Eventually he found his own home in the neighbourhood of Ganesh Talai. But it was not what he had hoped for. "When I got to the door I saw a lock on it. It look old and battered, as if no-one had lived there for quite a long time."
Saroo had a photograph of himself as a child and he still remembered the names of his family. A neighbour said that his family had moved.
"Another person came and then a third person turned up, and that is when I struck gold. He said, 'Just wait here for a second and I shall be back.' And when he did come back after a couple of minutes he said, 'Now I will be taking you to your mother.'"
Continue reading the main storyLost and found
- 1981: Saroo is born
- 1986: He loses his family and ends up living on the streets of Calcutta
- 1987: He is adopted by an Australian couple and grows up in Tasmania
- 2011: He finds his home town on Google Earth
- 2012: He is reunited with his mother in Khandwa
"I just felt numb and thought, 'Am I hearing what I think I am hearing?'"
Saroo was taken to meet his mother who was nearby. At first he did not recognise her.
"The last time I saw her she was 34 years old and a pretty lady, I had forgotten that age would get the better of her. But the facial structure was still there and I recognised her and I said, 'Yes, you are my mother.'
"She grabbed my hand and took me to her house. She could not say anything to me. I think she was as numb as I was. She had a bit of trouble grasping that her son, after 25 years, had just reappeared like a ghost."
Although she had long feared he was dead, a fortune teller had told Saroo's mother that one day she would see her son again. "I think the fortune teller gave her a bit of energy to live on and to wait for that day to come."
And what of the brother with whom Saroo had originally gone travelling? Unfortunately, the news was not good. "A month after I had disappeared my brother was found in two pieces on a railway track." His mother had never known whether foul play was involved or whether the boy had simply slipped and fallen under a train.
"We were extremely close and when I walked out of India the tearing thing for me was knowing that my older brother had passed away."
For years Saroo Brierley went to sleep wishing he could see his mother again and his birth family. Now that he has, he feels incredibly grateful. He has kept in touch with his newly found family.
"It has taken the weight off my shoulders. I sleep a lot better now."
And there is something to make him sleep better - with memories of Slumdog Millionaire still fresh, publishers and film producers are getting interested in his incredible story.
Saroo Brierley spoke to Outlook on the BBC World Service
Steve Carter, 35, discovers he was kidnapped by mother when he was a baby while searching online | Mail Online
'I got chills when I saw it was me': Man, 35, discovers he was kidnapped by mother as a baby while searching missing persons website
PUBLISHED: 13:21 EST, 16 April 2012 | UPDATED: 13:55 EST, 16 April 2012
Found: Steve Carter has discovered he was a missing child 34 years after he and his mother vanished when was was six months old
Steve Carter had always had questions about his childhood: why was his birth certificate created a year after his birth; who were his real parents?
Yet the 35-year-old, who was adopted aged four, was stunned when a simple internet search revealed a past that threw up even more questions.
After reading about Carlina White, an Atlanta woman who discovered she was snatched from a Harlem hospital as a baby, Carter decided to conduct his own search.
And he was stunned when he found a picture on missingkids.com of what a baby named Marx Panama Barnes would look like now - and realised it was him.
'I got chills,' Carter, who lives in Philadelphia, told People magazine. 'I was like, "Holy c**p, it's me".'
He discovered that he had been born in Hau'ula, Hawaii, but had gone missing with his mother, Charlotte Moriarty, when he was six months old.
His mother had disappeared before, but after she failed to return after three weeks, her partner and Carter's father, Mark Barnes, reported the pair missing.
Speaking to People magazine, Barnes said he never knew what had happened to his girlfriend and baby son on June 21, 1977.
'I spent about a year and a half going crazy driving around the island,' Barnes, now 61, said. 'It was rough.'
Now Carter has discovered that his mother took him to a stranger's home, where she gave police a fake name and birth date for her son.
Questions: Carter, then known as Marx Panama Barnes, vanished with his mother Charlotte Moriarty, who dropped him into state care before disappearing again. She has never been found
She was taken to a psychiatric hospital and Carter was put in protective care, People reported. But she vanished a few days later - and has never been found.
With Moriarty missing and a fake name stunting any investigation, Carter became a ward of the state and he was placed in an orphanage 30 miles from where he had lived with his parents.
Three years later, he was introduced to Steve and Pat Carter. 'It was love at first sight,' Pat said.
Yet despite a comfortable upbringing with the couple in a south suburb of New Jersey, he was racked with questions about his childhood. It led him to his life-changing discovery online.
Discovery: Carter (left, at three weeks old) was adopted aged four and moved to New Jersey. He looked online for clues to his past and found a picture (right) as he would look aged 28 on a missing children's site
He took a DNA test that confirmed the boy in the picture was him, but he admitted he was 'terrified' about meeting his long-lost relatives.
His adoptive mother Pat said she was threatened by the news. 'I felt like we'd taken someone else's child, though that wasn't true,' she said.
In February, months after the DNA test confirmed his identity, he called Jennifer Monnheimer - Moriarty's daughter and his older half sister.
Monnheimer, 43, was eight and living with her father in New Mexico when her mother and brother vanished.
'Truthfully I thought they were dead,' she said. 'I was really numb.' She added she had grown up 'scanning crowds' for her missing family.
It was due to Monnheimer that the picture had even appeared on the missing children's website.
Location: Carter went missing from his home in Hau'ula, Hawaii. His adoptive parents moved to New Jersey
In 2001, she convinced Hawaiian officials to re-open the investigation into the disappearances and they created the photo of her brother.
'If it wasn't for her, it would still be a cold case,' Charlene Takeno from the Missing Child Center in Hawaii told People.
Carter has yet to meet his father, Mark Barnes, who now lives in California and has two daughters at college - and who has always wondered about his son since his disappearance in 1977.
When Carter called him in February this year, he was speechless: 'All I could say was, "Wow. Oh wow. Wow".'
Carter, who now works for a medical software company in Philadelphia and is married, said he had often wondered where he came from as a child.
Now, as the discovery begins to settle in, he looks forward to reuniting with his father and sister this summer. 'It's good to know where you've come from,' he said.
CARLINA WHITE: THE STORY THAT SPARKED A SEARCH
In 2011, Steve Carter read the story of Carlina White and was inspired to look on missing people websites.
White was snatched from a hospital in Harlem, New York where she was being treated for a fever when she was just 19 days old.
It is believed a woman dressed as a nurse - but who was not an employee - took her during the night.
She was raised as Nejdra Nance by Ann Pettway in Bridgeport, Connecticut, just 45 miles from where her parents had lived.
She moved to Atlanta, Georgia after high school, where she became suspicious about her identity.
She believed she did not look like her mother or siblings and struggled to obtain a social security card.
White searched missing children's websites and was stunned when she found her picture.
She was reunited with her biological parents, biological parents, Joy White and Carl Tyson - 23 years after her disappearance.
Pettway was arrested in January 2011 and has been indicted on a kidnapping charge. She told authorities she had kidnapped White after several miscarriages made her concerned she would never have a child.
White is now reportedly estranged from her biological parents and continues to go by the name Nejdra Nance.
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