
#ArrestCPS is a campaign of the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO). The goal of our work is to expose the parasitic nature of the foster system and the devastating role it plays in the lives of black families. We want to see children returned to their homes and resources allocated by the state to go directly to the families, ensuring successful reunification. Anything less than this is an act of genocide.
Hands off Black Families
Black mothers are being targeted and criminalized, children are traumatized and entire families are torn apart. Ultimately, the community is negatively impacted with no resolution in sight. The mothers who are fighting the state-sponsored kidnapping of their children are isolated, in part, because our communities don’t understand the magnitude of this wholesale kidnap and there is an assumption that black mothers are unfit, inept, and automatically guilty of anything the oppressive State charges them with. #ArrestCPS is here to tell the real stories of families and fight for the return of all of our children
- Black children are disproportionately represented in the foster care system in the United States and other imperialist countries.
- Most children are removed based on cultural biases associated with living at or below the poverty line.
- Black parents ARE fighting to regain custody, but continue to face barriers from the courts, as their children age out
- When the state kidnaps black children, the Black family is irreparably damaged
- Foster care is a business
- With little to no evidence black parents are criminalized and isolated.



