Reason To Believe

 Once the DFPS case starts there begins their Quest for Evil... Either it is imaginary or real but when you see yourself as a good guy there has to be a nemesis, an enemy of the State, an evil to fight.  Even when that evil is not there one has to be created to make sure there is someone to blame for all the money spent.  When we are kids we love life, we love our parents and we don't search for anything else.  We have our parents, our parents are our God.  We don't start searching for God until we encounter Evil, when we realize that our parents are not almighty and all powerful, that there are forces beyond our parents' ability to fight we start looking deeper into the sky in search of higher power to help us and to protect our parents as well.  Kids love their parents.  Anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves.  A lot of times even if the parent commits an unforgivable act the child's love stays strong.  Children make parents bette...

 I live one day at a time, I write one day at a time and we can only hope for progress one day at a time.  Baby steps, but everything has to start somewhere...    This journey, this blog's journey, has started with 4Kids4Families prolonging my DFPS case.  Intentionally or not?  Debatable.  But definitely cruel and heartless practice.  I complained, I cried, I tried to reach out to their souls and it got me to rejection after rejection to the change of their main goal to adoption of my youngest daughter for "non-compliance" with whatever it is their "compliance" means.  My heart was breaking in pieces, I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs, but...  I chose to move to this country and my child is not at war.  I chose to live in civilization and not in the woods.  My husband and I chose to marry each other with all the baggage that comes with all the surrounding relationships of our lives and now we are forced to choose b...

Pain plus time plus dark empty rooms where once were constant motion and children's laugh is a bitter recipe for hatred.  As positive as you think you are and as kind as you want to be you won't be able to help but to contemplate the possibility of revenge.  But, what does an eye for an eye really accomplish?  There are always those who hurt us, some intentionally and some not, sometimes we hurt ourselves and our loved ones.  Human basic instinct is to survive.  We attempt to destroy and remove anything and anyone who causes us pain.  But pain is also a driver to a better you, with time it makes us into who we need to be, it teaches us understanding and empathy.  Pain, if used wisely, can fuel the fight towards a better more civilized society.  You get to do a lot of grown up thinking when children are not around weighing the importance of different values and beliefs, weighing the importance of love, hate, money and forgiveness, compromises you a...

 "To a canary a cat is a monster" ...  Monster is a relative term that depends on perception... While DFPS's affidavits paint parents as monsters, to those parents and their children it's DFPS's system and the laws that support it are the true monsters.  It is a heartless monster machine that swallows your life in big time gulps without the possibility of salvation.  Anyone can make a mistake, but no one can return the time that was stolen from parents and children imposed by the DFPS' separations.  Our Lawmakers created this Monster and our Lawmakers have the Power to Change it.   Change is needed! How can we expect our society to be healthy if the first traumatic experience that our children experience is the society separating them from their parents.  How can you expect our children to trust the society that does not know right from wrong, does not differentiate people's individual needs and causes emotional trauma to its citizens.  Parents an...

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed."-  Martin Luther King Jr.  What a powerful statement!  I can't believe that it took me 45 years to come across it, so yes, I can vouch for the fact that it is never too late to learn.  I believe that this statement can also be applied to change.  Not everyone likes change.  Change can be uncomfortable, it may be complicated, it requires time, work and it gets us out of our comfort zone.  But...  Change is necessary for us to evolve into a better society .  We are all valuable human beings and deserve dignity and respect.  Your neighbor with the broken fence may not have the money to fix it.  The person begging on the street may have a mental disability.  The woman that cut you off in traffic may be in a hurry to the hospital to see a loved one.  All of us have at least one thing in common: we all come from a specific mother and a fa...

"We tried everything to keep our abusers calm and happy.  We agreed with them, ignoring our own needs and feelings.  We got angry or acted as peacemakers.  In spite of all we did we could not control the situation.  The abuse continued and grew worse.  What did we gain from all of our efforts?  Illness? Debts? Physical injury?  Less emotional health?"  "Nothing I did was good enough" and "A lot of my energy went into hiding the abuse from my friends and family." Do these statements remind you of anything? These are the statements from Step One of HEART program: Acknowledging The Need for Help. "We admit that we have been involved in an abusive relationship and that we need the help and positive support of others."  Indeed I do!!!   I am tired of hiding from my family and friends because DFPS is treated like an incurable airborne virus.  I am tired of people thinking I or my husband did something horribly wrong because our chi...

"My name is Heather X.  I am with the Department of Family and Protective Services." - you hear those words as a parent and your heart drops.  This is a dark place for every parent.  Who?  What?  Why?  What now?  You have a hard time paying any attention, you suddenly can't think, everything freezes and there you are alone in complete darkness...  But...   " The Lord said that he would dwell in thick darkness. " 1 Kings 8:12. No matter how much confusion and pain you have ahead it's not anything you are going through alone, you are never alone, at that moment you are being carried by the power higher than you, that power holds you tight gluing the pieces of your heart together as you listen to the spill of this human that is not going to tell you much of anything and who has total power and control over you and your child from that moment forward.   You can't cry.  Not because you can't cry, but because something is holdin...

In my dealings with DFPS I appear to have no rights.  Not only I have no right to life, liberty, fare prosecution, Grand Jury, being secure in my person, house, property or effects, but I don't even have the right to be silent! Don't even mention second amendment because you will never get your child back! There is nothing voluntary about the relationship where oppressors take your child, take all your freedoms and fight with unlimited funds at their disposal to not give your freedoms and your child back.  So through these dealing with DFPS I cannot help but to question: Is the Bill of Rights optional?  Is it sort of like an old Diploma that you hang on the wall in the office with the degree that is not even relevant to your actual position so we can show off to the whole world: "Look, We the people have the Bill of Rights!"  ....that we can choose to follow or not to follow... I guess that is also a part of the freedoms we have.  What good are those rights if w...

In times of Artificial Intelligence, fake videos, made up phone calls and many other alterations of physical evidence one agency who needs absolutely no evidence to take all your rights is DFPS.  They don't even have to get creative and try to make some up.  The current Texas law Family Code, Section 161.101. Petition Allegations; Petition and Motion Requirements (a) states: "A petition for the termination of the parent-child relationship is sufficient without the necessity of specifying the underlying facts if the petition alleges in the statutory language the ground for the termination and that termination is in the best interest of the child." Here is the link:  https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.161.HTM What is an allegation?  By the definition  an allegation is a claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof.    And even though the law claims that clear and concise evidence is ...

  PROPOSED BI LL TO BE ENTITLED INNOCENT TEARS ACT By Marina Burroughs INTRODUCTION The proposed Bill is in relation to the procedures for taking possession of a child by the Department of Family and Protective Services and is dedicated to my child, K. B. who fell a victim of the flawed system and has suffered the hardest heartbreak of her life and a life-long trauma at such a young age. No child should be a victim of the system that was put in place to protect the children. Parents are not criminals and deserve to be treated as such - the most important people in the child’s life.  Not many parents truly neglect and abuse their children, those that do end up having serious criminal charges.  No child and no parent should have to go through unwarranted separation unless there is serious sufficient physical evidence to suggest that the child is being neglected and/or abused. Hearsay allegations and simply stating “it’s in the best interest of the child” must not be suffici...

  I am actively seeking a Texas Representative to sponsor, develop and refine the Innocent Tears Act to make it into the law.  Texas law has a flaw and that flaw undermines our parents’ and children’ constitutional and natural God given right to be together.  Many innocent tears are dropped due to unwarranted separations of young children with their parents, children so young that they can not even understand what is happening and why they are being taken from their parents. Over the past several years I have been a victim of the “reason to believe” policy that is destroying my life and my children’s lives, where simple allegations of the people that have never even been to my house and statement “it’s in the best interest of the child” are being used as a reason to remove the children from my custody.  Once they are removed, DFPS starts conducting a year, year-and-a-half long interrogations into the accusations and when those accusations are baseless, DFPS says that...

 Have you ever had a bad dream you cannot get out of?  ... Do you remember the feeling of frustration, anger and helplessness, yet "God is everywhere" and there is something inside of you that still has hope that this nightmare will end and you will get to see another day.   That is where I am now.  I have lived this nightmare over and over and I am at the point now that the only thing I see in front of this tunnel of time away from my children is hope for change.  They ask me in Court: "What is different since the beginning of this case?"  They don't ask me to hear the truth or because they are interested in what I think.  They ask me that question to get on record a praise, a pat on the back, a job well done, you saved me, I am a better person, I am new and improved me.   If it would only be so easy...  Time changes people.  Pain changes people...  I did change.  But not in who I was and who I am, but in what my goals were an...