{"id":332,"date":"2025-10-06T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging7888.webdemodesigns.com\/?page_id=332"},"modified":"2025-10-06T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:21:12","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging7888.webdemodesigns.com\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Out of the south, where family, church, and freedom define daily life, a government system created to help children is designed to fail. And fail, it does.\u00a0<\/p>

Harvesting Children<\/strong>\u00a0is about families in crisis and what happened to them after the Tennessee Department of Children\u2019s Services (DCS) wrongfully took their children away. Some parents got their kids back, some didn\u2019t. Either way, everyone was traumatized and their firsthand accounts can be found in this book.

Harvesting Children also examines child welfare agencies in different states. Some agencies are better than others but, still, 600,000 children are taken into custody every year in the U.S. and 400,000 of them are put in foster care.\u00a0It isn\u2019t just about the children. It is about the grownups,\u00a0too.<\/p>

Connie Reguli is a family\u00a0law attorney who\u00a0helps parents who sometimes make bad situations even worse. She has battled DCS across Tennessee for 30 years.\u00a0Crooked officials framed Reguli for a crime they made up and took her law license to keep her from beating them in court so often.\u00a0<\/p>

Veteran reporter Peter White describes the elephant in the room that everybody sees but nobody knows what to do about it. Too many kids are put in foster care. This book is about some of them and it explains how they got there.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Harvesting Children \u2013 The Dark Side of Foster\u00a0Care<\/strong>\u00a0is an expos\u00e9 of Tennessee\u2019s child welfare system. It examines the roles of its many players and it\u2019s packed with thoroughly researched stories ripped from the headlines. The book also highlights people inside and outside the system who have devoted their lives to changing it. There is an addendum of writings from experts, advocates, lawyers, and scholars you cannot find together in any other place.

This is an invaluable resource for sociology students, parents, grandparents, social workers, judges, lawyers and anybody else who has contact with the child welfare system. The next generation of social workers must be equipped to defend the rights of parents as well as children. They will learn how to do that If they read this book.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cMr. White eloquently reveals the hidden reality of the public child welfare system that is rarely exposed to the general public. He provides sharp and in-depth tragic examples on how the current system fails families, and, ultimately, society.\u201d\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThis is a powerful expose by a seasoned journalist recounting the too numerous stories ripped from the headlines of children and families harmed by state violence unleashed through what is known as America\u2019s \u201cchild welfare system.\u201d For more than 50 years, state and local governments have needlessly removed children from their families while profiting by taking billions of federal dollars that encourage breaking up families even when providing direct services is all they need. Read this important book. But be prepared to get very angry as a system that no longer deserves to exist.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn K\u00f6ehler, President, K\u00f6ehler Books.<\/span><\/cite>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThis book is filled with horror stories like mine. Unfortunately, they are still doing the same things. I don\u2019t know when it will stop.\u201d\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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About Us By Peter White Harvesting Children\u2013the Dark Side of Foster Care Out of the south, where family, church, and freedom define daily life, a government system created to help children is designed to fail. And fail, it does.\u00a0 Harvesting Children\u00a0is about families in crisis and what happened to them after the Tennessee Department of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-332","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging7888.webdemodesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging7888.webdemodesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging7888.webdemodesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging7888.webdemodesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging7888.webdemodesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/staging7888.webdemodesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/staging7888.webdemodesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging7888.webdemodesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}