Citizens for Parental Rights (CPR) is a non-partisan community organization. We seek legislative reforms of the child welfare industry. We promote fair and just treatment of parents by Child Protective Services (CPS) and the courts.

Our members are teachers, builders, attorneys, parents and grandparents working with state and federal legislators.

The situation facing so many Michigan families is the unchecked abusive power wielded by Child Protection Services (CPS). These abused families need our immediate attention and response. Too many innocent lives have been ruined. As free citizens we cannot just stand by and watch as the CPS system rips families apart, for that is exactly what they are doing.

Often, based on an anonymous tip and with unsubstantiated or no evidence whatsoever, CPS workers will force themselves into private homes without a warrant and without notifying the families of the charges made against them. Often CPS subjects both parents and children to interrogations and house searches. They have even subjected children to strip searches by total strangers without being able to have their parents by them for support. If anything is found that would constitute either neglect or abuse such as dirty dishes in the sink or a bruise on a toddler's head caused by bumping into a table, the children can be yanked from the home and placed with total strangers. Meanwhile, the distraught parents must fight, often spending tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and months of stress to get their own children back who they are rarely allowed to see. What is happening to these families is unjust. Help us keep more families from being ruined by the system.