How Did Howards Become Involved with DSS?

How Did Howards Become Involved with DSS?

Spaulding Rehab Hospital Apparently Caused their Problems

August 2001

The Howards have lived at their home on an acre of land in Tyngsboro since they bought it in 1991. Neil works as a machinist and Heidi is a homemaker.

They’ve always been just an ordinary family trying to get ahead – until they had a baby with terminal neurological problems and the feminists at DSS discovered that having a dying baby causes stress in a family and DSS could obtain two more children to adopt in order to obtain more federal money.

After the sick baby died at one year, the DSS was so entwined with the Howards that it demanded that a new baby born in December 2000 also be given to them to be cared for by strangers.

MassNews has reported how the maternity wards in Massachusetts hospitals monitor new mothers for DSS. (See the August 2000 edition.) The Spaulding Rehab Center in Boston is apparently the one that almost destroyed the Howard family.

The hospitals of the state are also used as recruiters for the new “home visitor” programs which are run by the state and disguised as private agencies. As an example, we reported how Milford Hospital provides the names and addresses of new mothers to a state-run, home visitor program called “Healthy Families,” which enters information and observations about new parents gained from visits, into a computer database that is tied to the Department of Health. A home visitor must tell DSS if she thinks she sees a problem.

A former worker for Healthy Families told MassNews that her supervisor would regularly call Milford Hospital to obtain a list of new mothers. The hospital coordinator would also give an indication about who on the list she thought was “high risk.”

MassNews wrote in the August, 2000 edition about the vision of C. Henry Kempe, who is credited with helping to launch the modern child abuse industry. He believed that the government is a superior “parent,” and he envisioned compulsory home visitation to monitor parents and evaluate new mothers. As we showed at the time, that vision is well on its way in Massachusetts with the Healthy Families program already instituted although almost no parent has any knowledge of it.

Parents Can’t Afford to Fight DSS

August 2001

If Atty. Chester Darling had submitted a normal bill to the Howards, it would have been for $27,360. And that does not include the work of another lawyer in the case, Greg Hession.

Atty. Darling spent 91.2 hours on the case, including over ten hours in the Lowell District Court just waiting. This bill does not include any travel time to Framingham or Lowell or any of the myriad telephone calls, which would have amounted to an additional 15 hours.

The DSS lawyers attempt to bludgeon parents into relinquishing their children by putting excessive demands on them that most parents are unable to meet, either financially or emotionally.