Tina... how do I thank you for your efforts?

I am always humbled when strangers share a mutual interest in the problems and malfunctions that I believe need profound fixing and readjusting.  The simple truth is, these are  problems and situations that are so HUGE and so broad in scope, it will take MANY hands with huge hearts to help tackle and make right.

Let me share with you what I feel are most typical and unchanged in terms of "Pound Pup" social/health issues, as per the links you chose to show us. First is, oddly enough, the first link listed:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,,1676508,00.html

A six-year-old girl abducted from her bath and left naked in a freezing street has given a partial description of her attacker to police, who are optimistic about completing the picture after a series of gentle interviews by specially trained officers.

The child, who suffered a sexual assault but is now making a good recovery, has also given details of the winding, three-mile route taken by her kidnapper as she crouched shivering in his car for around a quarter of an hour.

<!-- This site/section combo is not set up to show MPU's -->Detectives on Tyneside issued a description of the wanted man as they continued to check the whereabouts of known paedophiles and others on the sex offenders' register. The man was white and between 5ft 4in and 5ft 8in tall, in the girl's words "not skinny" and with hair on the sides of his face, which police are taking to mean sideburns. He was wearing a black hat, black coat and black gloves and was initially described as middle-aged. But detectives are keeping an open mind on how old he may be, as the girl based her assessment largely on his height.

The abduction happened at around 7pm on Tuesday when the intruder slipped through an unlocked back door at the child's house in North Shields. The girl did not know her abductor but one line of inquiry being followed by Northumbria police is that he had some knowledge of arrangements at the house in a rundown street where locals have complained that traditional neighbourliness has been wrecked by drugs and street crime.

The girl and her 18-month-old brother lived with their mother and her woman partner, who met through an internet chatroom. The children's father, a former soldier, lives apart but has been back to help his daughter recover from her ordeal.

Detective Chief Inspector Jim Napier, leading the hunt for what he has called "a very dangerous man," said that the girl had picked out the local Rose Inn and Kwik Save supermarket as landmarks passed during her terrifying drive. He appealed to the abductor to examine his conscience and give himself up.

He added: "We would also ask anyone who was in this area last Tuesday evening who noticed anything suspicious, particularly a vehicle being driven erratically or in a strange manner, with the driver possibly being distracted, to contact us."

The description given by the girl matches accounts by other children of a stranger hanging around and behaving oddly earlier on the evening of the abduction. Families gave details to police after their children ran home when police cars converged on the streets in response to an emergency call from the girl's horrified mother. An eight-year-old boy who was playing with two friends near the street where the girl was dumped has given detectives a description of a red car "like the type Ali G drives - some kind of souped-up hatchback", which left the area near the girl's home shortly before the attack, with its tyres screeching.

The girl was rescued by a neighbour, Geoff Brown, 43, who was watching TV with his wife when they heard screams. He found the child naked and trembling and crying about how "a nasty man" had taken her out of the bath and away from her home.

The child's relatives have been told not to make a big issue of the abduction with her, but to pass on any details from her chatter to detectives.

Imagine having to keep this event and it's fall-out as something that's "no big deal".  Imagine if your daughter was younger, and raped, and injured, needing medical attention; imagine her being older in age, getting raped and becoming pregnant as a result  These are medical issues, not just psychological ones.  Imagine what those events can do to a female, taken from her home, sweet home. 

The second link that really moved me was the legal appeal made to the public:

http://www.forced-adoption.com/introduction.asp

courts take children from loving parents who have committed no crime. 
3:-These parents lose their children for ever to adoption by strangers. The children adopted are refused access to records of their birth parents or siblings at least until they are 18, and usually for the rest of their lives; 
4:- Parents are GAGGED and regularly sent to prison in secret proceedings if they reveal what went on in court. 
5:-Establishment judges make decisions to take thousands of babies for risk of possible future emotional abuse.
(Extract from The Times, Aug 23 2007:  “Emotional abuse” has no strict definition in British law. Yet it now accounts for an astounding 21 per cent of all children registered as needing protection, up from 14 per cent in 1997. Last year 6,700 children were put on the child protection register for emotional abuse, compared with only 2,600 for sexual abuse and 5,100 for physical abuse. Both of the latter two categories have been falling steadily. Meanwhile emotional abuse and “neglect” - which replaced the old notion of “grave concern” in 1989 - have been rising. Both are catch-alls. But emotional abuse is especially vague. It covers children who have not been injured, have not complained, and do not come under “emotional neglect”.)  
6:-No jury would take babies from mothers because some expert made predictions of their future behaviour.
(Extract from The Sunday Times, Nov 18th 2007):A review is still going on of 700 cases in which bogus forensic scientist Gene Morrison gave evidence. Morrison, 48, from Manchester who was sentenced to five years for fraud in February, admitted he pretended to be an expert witness and bought his qualifications on the internet because it “seemed easier” than getting real ones.

 For many of the genuinely qualified experts, legal work is a lucrative sideline, and if they are perceived to be able to “tailor” their evidence convincingly, the commissions keep flowing in. John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP campaigning about the misuse of medical evidence, says fees for a basic written opinion, based on reading through existing files, start at £4,000. If the expert concludes there is a case to answer, they attract court attendance fees as well.
“I have known experts get as much as £28,000 for one report,” said Hemming, who is lobbying for experts to be required to produce the scientific publications on which their opinion is based: “Unless we start using evidence-based evidence in court, we will get nowhere.”) 
7:-Criminals facing 6+ months in prison can demand a jury;parents losing their children for life cannot.
8:-Pregnant mothers with no criminal records or disabilities are told their babies will be taken at birth!
9:-Local authorities are rewarded by central government for reaching "adoption targets" hence adoption is prioritised.
10:- Fosterers get up to £400/week/ child,special schools up to £7000/week,adoption agencies,experts lawyers all cash in lavishly!
 
SO :- What to do?
 - Stop the secrecy and the gagging of parents.
 - Stop adoptions of children for emotional abuse or for "risk",and open adoption records to children already adopted.  
 - Stop judges deciding cases of long term fostering or adoption,and give juries the final decision.
 - Stop excessive rewards for those who live off the misery caused by this wicked system!
 
This would be a very very good start!  

Here are 4 important questions that SHOULD be answered by social services or by family court judges but which have so far been systematically ignored ! 

1:- Why do family courts gag parents forbidding them to reveal details of proceedings after they have had their children taken for forced adoption by family courts?

Surely the right to protest against a perceived injustice is  fundamental in any democratic country.?

2 A minister admitted in parliament that family courts  imprison more than 200 parents every year with no public hearing ! Surely prison sentences ,often for as long as 2 years, without public trial should  happen only in

dictatorships not in a democracy such as the UK?.

3:-Why do family courts take children and newborn babies for adoption just because a hired "expert" makes a "prediction" that one day in the future there may be a "risk of emotional harm from their parents.? Parents (and their children) are punished not for anything they have done but for something some "expert" thinks they might do in the future! How can this be justice?

4;- A burglar facing 6 months or more in prison can demand a jury so why should a jury be denied to parents who risk losing their children for life? Few juries would take babies for adoption by strangers just because an "expert" said there was a "risk of emotional abuse" .Records show however that family court judges play safe and nearly always "go along" with social services no matter what the parents say.How can it be fair or just to allow a jury to hardened criminals but refuse one to a loving mother who only seeks to care for her own children? 

The 4 obvious reforms would be:-

1;- Remove the gag from parents involved in family court proceedings

2:-Forbid judges in the family courts to imprison any parent without a public hearing.

3:-Abolish "risk" as a reason to remove children from a sane parent unless in addition to risk it can be clearly shown and proved that such children have already suffered significant physical harm.

4:-Any parents facing the possibility that their children could be removed for long term fostering or adoption without parental consent should have the right to demand that the final decision be made by a jury not a judge.

I believe the above information speaks for itself.

Last but not least is the sample of how much the public needs free support and reliable/trustworthy information as the forum link you provided indicates:  http://justiceforfamilies.freeforums.org/index.php?sid=49005c49a8027c499a4eff68c10b95b1

People WANT better for themselves, they simply may not know where to turn because no one has been open and honest about these topics before.  there's no directory to offer those lost in a maze of family dysfunction.

I believe it's time to demand  for radical change in terms of how we seek and are treating those who were broken and torn from what was once safe and known. Origins matter, and they need to be respected and protected, so a better future can be had for all our children.  This way of thinking has to begin somewhere, doesn't it?