Are Abuse Shelters good for Children?

Index

• Suckered — Family destroyed; chalk one up for the femicommies

• Inside a women's shelter – Kids spill the beans (Ontario Taxpayer Watch Report)

• 'One-stop divorce shops' – A letter of support from a shelter is proven to be enough to win custody battles (National Post)

• Battered shelters – Criminal charges, mismanagement, infighting and sexual politics have left many women's shelters as bruised as the people they serve (National Post)

• Shelters used in war on men, expert claims (Edmonton Journal story)

• Jordan Heikamp starves to death in full view of shelter workers (National Post)

• Letter to Ontario Chief Justice
  "There was absolutely no physical violence leading up to my call to police, absolutely none."

• A free hotel is always full
  Emergency centres for women give scarce beds to transients
  By Lauri Friesen
  Alberta Report, July 21, 1997, page 33

• Woman dies a violent death at a women's shelter
  Edmonton Sun, 2003 02 09, p.3

• Police: Shelter refused to accept tortured teen
  AP, 2003 10 03

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This page is dedicated to the memory of baby Jordan Desmond Heikamp, who starved to death in the care of his 19-year-old mother and in full view of shelter workers at the Anduhyaun native women's shelter, even though the responsibility for Jordan's welfare had been assigned to Angie Martin, 43, of Brampton, an employee with the Toronto Metro Catholic Children's Aid Society. The verdict of the coroner's inquiry? It appears that all of the people entrusted with the life of Jordan Heikamp are held to be blameless. It appears that the officials feel there is nothing wrong with the Toronto child protection system that can't be fixed by throwing more money at it.

Photo by Kevin Van Paassen, National Post "I have tried through the years to be a good social worker," Angie Martin, Catholic Children's Aid Society worker, told the coroner's court.

Subject: Re: [EPOC] Shelter protest
    Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:46:21 -0400
   From: Reinhold Knauss <cp093@freenet.toronto.on.ca>

Does anyone know the name and age of the young boy that died in a [Toronto] shelter not long ago?

Balance Beam will be picketing the shelter in Goderich on Sat., the 31st 11:00AM.  We are looking for suggestions to be placed on placards as well as any bodies who wish to join us.

Is this something for Court Watch?

Tony

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See also Big Sister Is Watching!

An epidemic of state-sponsored kidnapping feeds a tyrannical system hungry for revenues.  Child Protective Services and Children's Aid Societies systematically and increasingly often rob children from their parents.  Kafkaesque chicaneries that the targeted families find impossible to comply with are the tools used to keep the revenues rolling in.  Many families don't survive the ordeals that they are being subjected to by any given CPS or CAS. 

 
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A fictitious, but nevertheless logical
FEMINIST RESPONSE TO THE STORY

 No doubt, some men's right's nuts will ask how a poor baby boy is allowed to starve to death in the Anduhyaun Women's Shelter and nobody notices.

Let me answer this.

First, we are not dealing here with a poor boy, but with a future gender terrorist. All men are bad, age makes no difference. A baby girl will never die in a women's shelter, we look out for our own.

Second, women's shelters are for women. Period. We don't care for children. They are messy, noisy and eat our food.

Third, why did none of the people working in this shelter notice any hunger cries? - Shelter professionals are trained to ignore cries from anybody but females. Our highly trained professionals know that the only victims are women. There are no other victims.

Shelter professionals who did hear the hunger cries acted responsibly by ignoring them.   Another dead gender terrorist won't be missed.

It is a travesty of justice to charge women with killing a "boy" Women have always done so. There were never any complaints. It's our right. We give life, we take it away. It's our body - our choice.

Those two police victims must be released and charges withdrawn. Real questions must be asked.

Some man must be jailed for this. This young mother is a rape victim. All mothers are.  [In the US, there are an estimated 520,000 false rape allegations a year — 98.1% of all reported cases.  — Eeva Sodhi, Debunking Domestic Violence Statistics; Rape]

I will not be surprised if men's right's nuts will now attack single motherhood again. They are sadly mistaken. There is nothing wrong with single motherhood. A women needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Most likely this young mother was victimized by a deadbeat dad who deserted her, threatened her mother with visitation and never paid any child support.

Only jailing those deadbeats permanently will stop helpless women from getting arrested and further victimized for minor incidents.

"Suzy McDougall,"
- an innocent women victim -

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"A future gender terrorist" is what "Suzy McDougall" considers the poor boy to be.  In other words, don't mourn the victim. The only good male is a dead male.  Where did I hear something like that before?  We now and then see responses that are somewhat like those expressed in the fictitious letter.  Charges for violating hate-crime laws are never laid under circumstances like that.

Now imagine that a man would have written anything equally atrocious about the death of a young girl that had been starved to death.  Do you think that he would still be outside of jail?

The originator of the fictitious letter points out that there is a real Suzy McDougall:  

I wrote this hate letter. ...

The real Suzy Mc Dougall is a feminist working for the Ontario Government.  Her job is to destroy father-child relationships under the guise of "the children's lawyer"

Very rarely is the feminist view represented in our discussion groups.  I sometimes try to see things from the feminist side, to even things out  a bit.

Although in the case of a baby being starved to death in a house full of "caring" mothers it becomes very difficult to defend the feminist view.

No wonder we never heard again about this case. None of the caring shelter family violence experts responsible for this murder have ever been charged. It's not considered family violence.

In the last few weeks more boys got killed by their female "caregivers" In the case of a 7 year old being beaten to death the father was blamed for not defending him.

If the father would have known what went on and defended the boy, he would become part of our next "violence against women survey"

Of course, dead boys are not counted in such surveys.

I will write occasionally from the feminist point of view, to point out how ridiculous it is.

Conclusion

Ted Greenfield and the author of the preceding explanation both share a common sentiment, that the health and welfare of children is secondary to the well-being of child welfare workers and of workers involved in the battered women's shelter industry.   On the evidence, they appear to be absolutely right.  The welfare of the workers in the women's shelters industry is first and foremost in the minds of many people.  That's why funding sources are always ready to throw more money at the these workers' cause.  Thereby they receive the increased funding that enables them to cause more problems:

• Escalating divorce rates,

• Escalating child apprehension rates and increasing numbers of children in shelters.  The April 2, 2001 edition of The Report newsmagazine, carries a story of a family and its children that are being deliberately destroyed by Alberta Social Services and an Edmonton social worker, Helen Rae:

Government – A better Parent?

Surely, you would think that these must be isolated exceptions.  If "all men batter" their wives, and mothers are not capable to provide good care for their children all by themselves, the Government can do a better job of providing loving care for our children — well, think again!

When children wind up in the care of the government, nothing much in the way of a good outcome can be expected.

Foster children were 10 times more likely to be abused than children in the general public. [1986 and 1990 survey conducted by the National Foster Care Education Project] Children in the "care" of the government are more than 150 times more likely to become incarcerated than other children. [Based on information provided by By Timothy W. Maier in an article HORRORS OF THE NON-HOME, Insight Magazine (date and page not known) posted on the Internet 1997 12 06, and on U.S. population statistics from the Bureau of the Census.] [Update 1998 10 18: The U.K. Secretary of Health, Frank Dobson, reports similar calamities in Britain] Escalating numbers of run-away children, Escalating crime rates involving juveniles both as perpetrators and victims.

The escalation of these problem is out of proportion with the population growth rate.  If the pathologies affecting children were a function of population growth — virtually zero in both Canada and the US — then the logical outcome would be a growth rate of zero or even a declining one for the social indicators relating to children's pathologies.  Instead, we have escalating funding of agencies and organizations doing their best to bring about the conditions that lead to the destruction of our families.   Consider the following.

Source: Heritage Foundation

Although the chart by the Heritage Foundation indicates a problem that is largely not man-made but is caused by the promotion of life styles for women other than the traditional nuclear family, there is one aspect of the data in the chart that urgently needs attention.  In Canada and in the US the statistics relating to crimes against children are being seriously fudged and deliberately misrepresented.

For example, as Dr. Judith A. Reisman reported in a two-part article in the WorldNetDaily News:

The NIBRS [July 2000, U.S. Department of Justice, National Incident-Based Reporting System] admission that 67 percent of all sex assault victims were reported as children 0-17 years old and that 37 percent of these attacks were made on children under 12, largely excluded from FBI "forcible rape" data, undermines any claims of a safer society.

Girl delinquency increased 186 percent from 1987-1996; over 2.7 million children were reportedly criminally attacked in schools in 1997; we have roughly 1 million runaways (more than half enter prostitution) and 550,000 children in foster care, often battered and abused, and a helix of child victims of cyberporn since 1999.

These real world data are not reflected in the FBI numbers.

...all sexual abuse of children under age 12 had been systematically purged by the national data collecting agencies.

Moreover, while 67 percent of all sex abuse victims are children under 18 years of age, with roughly 4 percent of males identified as either bi- or homosexual, this small cadre is largely responsible for NIBRS data finding 64 percent of all forcible sodomy victims to be boys under age 12, most under age 5. Given that, the problems inherent in homosexuals as guides and mentors to youth looms large.

The 348 percent increase in child abuse reports -- using data from the American Human Association and NCANDS, 1990 to today -- confirms the NIBRS boy-abuse data. Previously, the AHA documented a 1,028 percent increase in child sex abuse reports in six years from 1976 to 1982.

See full text of Part I and also full text of Part II

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More Shelter Stories

Seizing children:

Throughout history, rampant child apprehensions and state-ownership of children went hand-in-hand with totalitarian regimes and tyrannies.

Antiquity — The apprehension of children – boys – in antiquity

20th Century — Evolution of the Hitler Youth

...in a series of coldly and shrewdly calculated moves, radical extremists usurped the youth movement that was very much splintered along political and religious ideological lines and consolidated it into a unified and rigorously controlled sector of the German population.  The slogan that motivated the Nazi leaders was an adaptation of a slogan attributed to Napoleon "Who controls the youths controls the future!"  (Wer die Jugend hat, hat die Zukunft), although its origins go back to Socrates (whom Plato, in Republic, has offer this advice to philosopher kings: "Take all the children from their parents and rid the city of adults."), and, as the history of Ancient Greece shows with respect to Sparta, even farther back in antiquity.

Modern Times — Big Sister Is Watching

First they came for the fathers, then for the mothers, and now for both parents in intact families.  In the end all children will be in the care, custody and control of the State.

An epidemic of state-sponsored kidnapping feeds a tyrannical system hungry for revenues.  Child Protective Services and Children's Aid Societies systematically and increasingly often rob children from their parents.  Kafkaesque chicaneries that the targeted families find impossible to comply with are the tools used to keep the revenues rolling in.  Many families don't survive the ordeals that they are being subjected to by any given CPS or CAS. 
(Full Story)

See also:

Feminism For Male College Students — A Short Guide to the Truth, by Angry Harry (Off-Site)

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Updates:
2000 10 08 (minor edits -- typos)
2001 02 10 (format changes)
2001 04 01 (extensive changes to make updates in relation to the death of Jordan Heikamp and the havoc caused by Social Services)
2002 03 28 (installed index)
2002 11 08 (added links to Seizing Children)
2003 01 15 (added link to Letter to Ontario Chief Justice)
2003 10 20 (added entry for A free hotel is always full)
2006 03 04 (added link to Feminism for Male College Students)