These words were said to the mother of 12 kids, who fights for them about 2 years already.
CPS really think 12 kids are too much for 1 woman, and they "help" them to decide this situation.
The woman had a hard life situation when she lost her husband (he died), and she was alone with 10 kids. They had too small flat, and CPS used this reason to take kids to orphanages. The woman tried to fight with the system and improve her life conditions, but there was no result. Later she got married with another man (in the photo), and gave birth to 2 more kids, but they continued struggle for those 10 kids together. The man has a good salary, he pays the woman's debt for kids and they ask for help together.
The story has become loud now, and there are lots of CPS outrage and mistake in it (as always), so I'm sure the story will have its hapyy end soon, and the mother will be able to return all her kids to home.
In Russia, the honorary title of "Heroine Mother" is the highest award for women who raise ten or more children.
Anastasia could have been one of them, but instead her children were scattered around the country, under the guise of caring for their own well-being. Yes, she is not perfect. And where have you seen an ideal mother, except for glossy magazines? But this woman has done more for the demography of her country than many of her peers. And she is a mother who wants her children back. A mother who has found herself in a difficult life situation: she does not need to be drowned, but helped. Especially since the problem is only in everyday life. She isn't alcochol or drug addicted woman, and she loves all her kids!
The drama of the situation is that such cases are not isolated. It is a system: in Russia, the state spends 13 times more on a child in an orphanage than on assistance to large families.
CPS and orphanages work in tandem. It was formed in the 1990s by thoughtlessly copying the European justice system, was based on the principle that the state knows better than parents how to raise children.
Therefore, CPS had the right to come into a home and take children away from a family in half an hour. The return process can drag on for years. It is a cynical business that destroys families.
So what?
An orphanage cannot be better than a family, and now the state has taken a completely different course - to save the birth family.
On June 2, President met in the Kremlin the Commissioner for Children's Rights , who de facto declared a real fight against this system. The ombudsman said that 25% of children are in orphanages without reason. However, over the past year, hundreds of families have been able to reunite and find each other again.
The president's decision to support proposal to create an All-Russian Family Assistance Service is what pro-family public organizations have been trying to achieve for many years. And this fundamentally turns family policy upside down. Children must stay at home!
We hope it will help.
