Watch: The Stories CPS Doesn’t Want You to See
Courtroom moments, parents in their own words, and former caseworkers speaking on the record. Millions of views and counting. Tap any video to watch.
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A juvenile court judge walks the State through its own logic, and it falls apart.
On the record: no finding the children were ever at risk or in danger. The removal happened anyway.
Interrogation audio from the Texico, Curry County, New Mexico foster abuse case.
A terminally ill father says the system has kept him from his children for two years.
A mother named Deanna watched the case against her family grow and never end.
A Wadena County, Minnesota father describes what happened after his son was taken.
When a child is taught to hate a loving parent, courts call it co-parenting. It isn’t.
U.S. and international studies reach the same conclusion family courts keep ignoring.
A blunt warning delivered at a public hearing on child protective services.
A woman explains how payment rates rise as a child’s condition declines.
Children disappear from state custody while the agencies responsible keep failing them.
Tiffany describes being in an emergency shelter with her newborn baby.
In Prescott, Arizona, child welfare workers posed in shirts that said it out loud.
A family court case where documented abuse claims were brushed aside.
A father describes the hearing, the refused drug test, and the loss that followed.
A foster mother is sentenced in the death of a child placed in her care.
They call it aging out. For many, it means being released with nowhere to go.
A child welfare worker, on the record, says compliance doesn’t bring children home.
Police uncovered abuse inside a licensed Oklahoma foster home.
What foster parents are told, and what they’re never told.
What she told parents who asked if they had to cooperate with an investigation.
A breakdown of the funding incentives most Americans have never been told about.
A mother describes what she saw during supervised visits.
A mother explains what happened to her son inside the system.
The 1970s idea that took children from families and handed them to the state.
In Arizona, young caseworkers run investigations that can end a family.
An insider explains the concerns many caseworkers have raised for years.
She admitted writing reports that weren’t true. What happened to those families?
The lawmaker who wrote ‘The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services.’
CPS workers are trained to investigate families, not to find the truth.
A courtroom reminder of what parental rights are supposed to mean.
Every parent needs to hear this advice before CPS knocks.
In Contra Costa County, a 4-month-old died in a foster home the county chose.
Content warning: child harm (non-graphic).
He lived it, and he’s not staying quiet about it.
Lisa Border on what happens when the adults entrusted with children harm them.
A Carroll County, Virginia mother didn’t just lose her children.
Julie Bommar’s words about a system that took years she can’t recover.
A disturbing conversation about how children become accessible to predators.
Testimony from hearings on neglect, reunification and termination.
A mother says her children were split up and adopted without her.
Real cases described by a former insider.