By Mike Harris
MRDAD
mrdad2us@aol.com
November 3, 2000

Mike Harris is one of the heartbroken fathers whose families have been destroyed by the Massachusetts courts. 

Do you ever question other people's motives and want a dose of reality? Call (617) 542-3678, extension 112, and ask what is happening. This is the number for the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange, Inc. They held an Adoption Party/Picnic last Saturday in Bradford at the Cedarland Fun Center. 

I called the Adoption Agency and asked where the children would be coming from for this party. I was told they are from foster care and/or residential treatment centers from all over the state. When I asked if these children have any contacts with biological family members, i.e. parents, the woman told me some of them do. But the state is trying to terminate the parental rights as soon as possible so the children can be adopted quickly and don't have to wait a long time in the system. 

After I picked my tongue up off the floor and put it back in my mouth, I asked if the children have siblings or other relatives they are in contact with, i.e. aunts, uncles, grandparents, brothers or sisters. The young woman told me they have brothers and sisters who will be there with them looking for homes also. She said it is set up for the children to have a really fun day. They will do arts and crafts while people come and talk to them and meet with the social workers, she joyfully explained to me. 

Sounds like a ball. Let's try it with the woman's kids and her nieces and nephews and see if she still feels the same way. 

This young woman has no clue as to what she is doing to these children and families. You can hear it in her voice. She is following orders and thinks she is doing God's work. She does not care where these children come from or who wants them in the biological family circle. She is trained to go after the money trail. They will be paid handsomely for selling these children at auction.

And nine out of every ten children there will be on one or more mind-altering drugs, prescribed to them by state contracted doctors who want to label the children as "special needs" so that more funding can be generated.
"Got Kids? Party on!!!" I guess is their motto.

Sad state of affairs I would say.

Went to Party
As I entered the building where the party was being held, I walked into a maze of many people. There were many cute kids running all around with nametags on. I stopped one of these kids and asked him about the colors on the nametags. The little guy told me in his big man's voice, gold is for Department of Social Services, silly. The boy told me with half a smile, pink means you got a family and are being adopted by someone soon. Everyone wants to get a pink one he said sadly, as he looked down at his nametag. It was gold. My heart broke for this little boy. The other colors were to identify the different agencies participating I would learn later. I thanked the little lad as I walked away wiping the tears away from my eyes.

The young, dumb social wreckers have no idea what they are doing. These social wreckers are just the pawns for more powerful people. They are led to believe they are doing the right thing for these kids. They are naive and easily used. They will be rewarded handsomely for asking the right questions and punished severely, with banishment from the human service field, for asking the wrong questions. So these people learn quickly what to say and what not to say and what to do and what not to do. Most of them are fresh out of collage and ready to set the world on fire. They are eager to appease bosses and help so many helpless children find homes and parents, not thinking most all these children already have homes and parents. These social wreckers are burning the bridge between parents and children with little knowledge of what the real facts are.

I literally could not write after attending this cattle call for children and despicable act of kidnapping for profit. It took me two full days to calm down enough to write this article.

This "adoption party" was nothing more than stolen children on display at the Cedarland Fun Center. These stolen children were put on display. There is no doubt in my mind that what they do to these kids and their families is criminal. What is happening to many innocent families is nothing short of genocide and a holocaust on parenthood. These agencies are single-handedly wiping out the traditional family and biological parental rights. These monsters think parents are nothing more than thorns in their sides and just another hurdle to overcome before passing GO and collecting federal and state funds off the heads of our precious children and our families. Mad yet? Read on.

Inside the building it looked and smelled  like something was on fire. I noticed through an opening into the kitchen there were staff cooking pizza in an oven that was billowing out tons of smoke. The teenagers continued to cook and sell pizza despite the fact the oven was filling the building up with smoke. These people were selling hot dogs, hamburgers and pizza at  this adoption party like it was some sort of sporting event.   

I walked around, mingling among the crowd of people shopping for children. I asked some of the social wreckers about the children's biological parents and family backgrounds. I was told by one man from the Catholic Charities Organization that if the kids are here, then at this stage, you can rest assured the parents are no good. It took all the power I had within me to stop myself from whacking this clown right upside his head, to try and knock some sense into him. I figured that was a waste of time. He obviously never had any to begin with. I had to walk away from him at that point, just shaking my head and mumbling under my breath.

The other social wreckers I spoke with were not much better with their answers. They explained how all the parents abused and neglected all of these children and it is determined by the court that the parental rights must be terminated, of course in the best interest of the child. I asked them how much they knew about the child's relatives and biological families. I was told by one young social wrecker, "We do not get involved in that end of it. That is the court's job." Another stated most all the kids have no one to care for them and most of these children have been abandoned by their families. They come from crack addicts and abusive alcoholic parents, she said. How do you know, I asked her. She told me because it is written in their files and case history. I had to again walk away shaking my head in disbelief.

I do agree that sadly, some children do have parents who are crack addicts. It is sadly true some parents severely abuse their children and there is no denying that. But all these kids? Over three million cases a year in the United States of child abuse? How many of these kids are taken away from parents with no proof of any abuse ever taking place? How many of these kids' parents have had no due process, yet their children were taken away? I personally know of many such cases and I am one of them. Though my daughter is not in foster care or a ward of the state, I have not been allowed to see her in three years. By trying to assert my rights as a parent, I saw there was a chance the system would steal my child, as it has with so many others. I had to go about my fight a different way to protect her from the system.  

I met with the young woman who was directing this "party." She was all smiles and happy to answer any of my questions. I asked her what medications do most of the kids take? She ran down a long list of drugs that have a multitude of side effects and will have permanent consequences as a result of many years of taking these drugs. I asked if she was aware of the side effects from some of the medications she named. She explained how the insurance works and the doctors that see the children on a regular basis and the follow up done on each child. She never did answer the question.

She basically told me this "adoption party" process is designed to find homes for children whose biological parents have had their parental rights terminated. She said the parents have abused or abandoned the children and the court deemed the parents not fit to care for their children. I asked about the courts looking into other family members who could take the children before the state gets involved. She told me the state does all it can to look for relatives that can care for the child before they are brought into the system. At this point I wanted to call her a liar but somehow held my tongue. She even used the words, "An extensive search is done."

Then in another breath, she told me for many different reasons why it is not always possible for the agencies to do a complete search for relatives. For one, it would take too long and the children would have to wait longer in the system to be adopted. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I had heard and seen enough at this point. I had to get out of there. The young woman gave me her name and number. She said she would call me on Monday (she did call) and she wants me to meet with her and start looking into the process of adopting a child. She told me it is free. She told me they will give me subsidies for the children I adopt. When I asked what the subsidies are, she told me this will all be explained to me when we met.

An important piece of information she told me is that the M.A.R.E. adoption books are kept in libraries, in the reference section. This is priceless information if true. There are books with hundreds of children's pictures in them. For parents looking for their children, call and ask if your town or city have these adoption books in your public library. A quick phone call is all it takes to find out if your library has these books.

I tried to take one of these books home with me but I was being watched and they are very big books. These books are full of stolen children.

I think it is time we parents target some of these agencies involved in this despicable behavior. There are six of these adoption agencies here in Massachusetts. I will write more on this issue very soon.

I would like to thank all those who took the time to write me about this troubling issue. By far this has generated the most response of any topic or story I have ever written. This is not the end of this I assure you. I will be causing more waves about this and other important topics, you can count on that.

 

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