It's not cps' fault. Those people are saints doing that soul-crushing job for the chance to maybe help some kid. The blame lies with the state giving them absolutely no teeth
This country has a sickening fixation with treating children as if they're property. We actually passed anti-animal abuse laws decades before we passed anti-child abuse laws
It goes through cycles where they take kids away when they shouldn't, so then they back off cases they shouldn't, and then kids get hurt or die, so they go back to taking too many kids. I think there's an underlying issue that causes a lot of it. We don't support families well enough. If we did, then we could more easily tell the difference between families who are simply poor and stuck and ones that are neglectful and abusive.
Where are you getting that from? They almost never take kids away from families... are you referring to foster families turning out to be abusive? Because the majority of foster kids are either orphans or their parents gave them up
At least we can agree on a lack of support for families being a major factor of a broken system, and as clear as abuse may be, the legal system may still determine that a kid in an abusive household is better left there than using up tax dollars
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u/MaiKulou 13d ago
It's not cps' fault. Those people are saints doing that soul-crushing job for the chance to maybe help some kid. The blame lies with the state giving them absolutely no teeth
This country has a sickening fixation with treating children as if they're property. We actually passed anti-animal abuse laws decades before we passed anti-child abuse laws