i think cps wants people to abuse children!?

Question

cps gave 3 kids to an admitted convicted child abuser, the man was charged with and convicted for child endangerment and he is on probation for beating his kid! beating a kid is a violent assault, and child endangerment is having a kid in a dangerous place! kids are our future and they deserve the best and nothing is more vauable then a childs life! cps workers just want to keep a job and a paycheck and thats why tx and ia cps workers recommend that a child abuser gets to keep the 3 kids, so that they can continue services! he is on probation for beating child #1, child #2 is being med. neglected and cps officers refuse to file or investigate it, and doctors and school records are proof of the neglect! what i want to know is what are the chances of child #3 getting hurt?

Answer 1

I agree with a lot of the other posters, there really is a good side to foster care, and there really are good foster homes that will take kids in and love and nuture them. Cps workers have a difficult job that is more mentally straining than anything else. It takes a strong person to be able to be a social worker or cps worker and not everyone can do the job. Don't get me wrong, I am not pro cps in any way, shape or form, but my eyes opened a little bit more when I just read a book about a foster child's experience with social services and cps. He is now an adult and went on to express the perils of cps and in the end how their intervention kept him alive and made him the man he is today.

I think children should not be placed with sex offenders, regardless how long ago the crime was permitted. They also should not be placed with anyone for the most part who has a criminal record for any violent crime! That is just putting a loaded gun into the hands of a monkey!

Some cps workers really do care about their job and saving the lives of kids, but again, those workers are slim to none. Most of them take the better safe than sorry approach, and even though this may work in some cases, that does not mean that it is fair, nor the best appraoch to a situation. A lot of the cps workers also do not investigate deep enough to have a valid reasons to take the kids. I also think they should not act everytime some eprsons calls in a case. This would weed out the jealous exes that just want to cause trouble, or the nosy neighbor who like to keep trouble started.

Cps system is needed, but the system itself needs a mass reformation, where all the wokers are held accountable for everything they do, where they don't have as much authority and immnunity they have as well. I also would like to see them offer more help to the families instead of them just being focused on taking the kids and sticking the parents in parental classes. When I say this, I mean like if a family is in question for having a dirty house, instead of taking the kids, maybe the parents need to be showed how to clean and or helped to keep it clean, they should be given a chance to rectify the situation before the kids are snatched away. If a family is living in poverty, give them welfare, foodstamps, wic, or whatever is needed for maybe 6 months to a year, regardless of income guidelines (hell, these immigrants are getting it, and they are not even citizens, but that is a whole other story!) Then and only then, if the fam9ily has not improves at least somewhat by then, then yes, the kids should be taken. What I am getting at is that in the less extreme circumstances, cps workers shold give the parents chance to rectify any wrongdoing before the kids are taken. I know in a lot of instances they take first and ask questions later! I would love to see this stopped!

Lastly, you are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but in a lot of times, in cps eyes, you are guilty the moment they are called to investigate! And you are treated accordingly, which is never fair! Cps needs to focus more on the cases where they are called to investigate physical/sexual/drug abuse, I guarantee if they did this first, their cases load would be cut in half, then they would have the time to put a little more effort into their job, and do it more accurately! That way, when little Johnny falls down the stairs and gets hurt, (even though his mom told him 20 times to stay off) he will not be taken from his mom, and she will not be labled neglectful. On the other hand, when cps is called to investigate little Mary, because she went to school and a teacher noticed bruises and litltle Mary said her mother's boyfriend beat her when he got drunk, Little Mary will be taken, and for the right reasons! Get my point!

Answer 2

I think if I read this in the newspaper, my reaction would be similar to yours. It makes me feel sick whenever I hear a baby cry.
I think your criticism of the child care workers is unfair. If there are people there for the 'money', they would be a very small minority. Most people aren't there for the money. They are deeply concerned for the welfare of all children.
Can you imagine what it would be like seeing all these children suffering at the hands of their caregivers every day and your ability to change their life is extremely limited. They must work around the laws and if they can remove a child than where do you place them? An institution is an alternative but that has limited benefits due to lack of funding and staff inadequacies. Even having the satisfaction of removing these children from these negligent parents is frustrating because these children need emotional support from a trained professional. You can remove the damaged child but the healing would be absent without consistent, loving care. Our cps officers need to given more respect and our graditude for their efforts. We all could be superman for a day but these people do it day in and day out. What an emotional toll it must take.
How about teaching our children about parenting in school and human psychology. We should have a program aimed at our children that simulates parenting for a week. Perhaps, it wouldn't cause everyone to stop and think but a lot of little souls just might be saved before they are actually born.

Answer 3

A lot of CPS workers are very committed to trying to do the best they can for children. It really does take a lot for them to be able to remove children from a home, and even more to keep them removed. Parents who have had their children taken legally only have to complete a few certain requirements to get their children back. It's not always the best system, but it's not the CPS workers' fault. They are run by the legal system that they work for. One of my good friends is a CPS worker. I'm sure that the people who have to place children back into a bad situation have trouble sleeping at night because of it. But that's all that they are able to do.

Answer 4

Child Services is usless!,,I myself had to testifiy in the trial of a murdered child i knew. CAS left these children in a home where they knew the common law boyfriend was a threat and the mother was neglectfull. This child had been beaten so bad the coroner had never seen injuries of the sort. Numerous reports had been made , including by the childs caregiver that these children were at risk. CAS removed the kids for a weekend and returned them the followong monday while the mother was high on Extasy.So many injurys to the child were either not looked at or made out as nothing.

Answer 5

I think cps is in major need of a complete overhaul. They seem to take kids form otherwise happy homes and place kids in dangerous ones. They seem unskilled and uncaring. I think they tend to be completely adversarial not looking for the best interest of the child but seeking to make a profit from the federal government. Until people have been made to notice what is going on with this system I believe it will continue. I'm not familiar with the case you are speaking of so I really can't comment on it but I have noticed the way the system has performed in many other cases and it seems to be operated for profit rather than looking out for families and children.

Answer 6

heh, the chances are high.
shoot, i got taken by cps, and my FATHER was the cause of me getting a knee surgery... lets just say he was very abusive.
and get this, He gets remarried (his 5th wife). decides to go back to school. Prez. bush comes to town, give him alllll sorts of praises. and invites him to come to white house for a christmas party. It seems that are government has forgotten all about whats really going on and instead is more concerned with politics and whatnot. And its not fair.

and yeah, as for being in foster care, been there done that, it was HELL, except for the last home I was in, and then when you age out of care they toss you on the street and say good luck and walk away.
the whole system is screwed up.

Answer 7

Oh my god thats awful. I know cps workers are crappy half of them never do their job. I know a little girl that needed to be removed from her mothers house because she was turning it into a crack house and her bf beating the girl with a belt when he got drunk and they left her in there and told the woman just to clean her house thats it

Answer 8

I don't believe cps wants abuse children, they can only do so much its the courts who don't step off the high bench. Written in our law is where criminals with violent crime, sex offenders, and drug addictive even abuse children is given to these people.

Answer 9

I think you need to let cps handle it now that they are already involved.

Answer 10

people believe that other people should have second chances and think that these people have changed. Do you wish that you had a second chance in life?