CPS, should it be abolished? Leave these matters to law enforcement?

Question

I know three little girls who were taken from their parents because their parents had a domestic violence incident, CPS put them in a foster home where 8 years later, the foster father has been arrested for molesting all three girls. The Foster mother beat them severely with a belt until they bled. Should CPS be sued for failure to protect?

It seems as if CPS takes children away for reasons that are far less damaging than the outcome of placement in foster care. I think it's far worse that the kids are abused in foster care when they weren't abused at all with their mom. They took them away because CPS said she wouldn't be able to protect them from domestic violence if she couldn't protect herself. She divorced him, and CPS made it impossible for her to get them back. I believe CPS looks at placement of children as their annual budget source. The more kids they have in foster care, the more money they get from our tax dollars. The definition of abuse is so fuzzy they can make it fit any scenario if it fits their purpose. Maybe the rules need to change, and the CPS budget should be based on how many families they worked to keep together instead of tearing them apart for stupid claims of "what if". If law enforcement handled these cases, at least parents would get a fair shake instead of kangaroo family court.

Read Joseph Serandos "Call for a Change" It explains the inner workings of an already corrupt CPS system that is in it for the money. I have witnessed a CPS worker dragging a child away crying without so much as a thought for the childs welfare.

I think we need to think about the welfare of the children, not how overworked the police are going to be. The police are not who we should be concerned with. I don't like that my tax dollars pay for state run child abuse. I think every state should adopt the new CPS Laws that Pennsylvania did, the Family Reunification act. Read it, it holds CPS workers criminally liable for making bad judgements that hurt children. I like that idea. CPS doesn't act when they should and kids die. CPS also overreacts when they shouldn't, and look at the results. I don't think they are of value at all if even just one child has to die while in CPS clutches.

Answer 1

A new institution should be put in place with employees having personal backgrounds in the foster care system and dysfunctional families. They know the signs of abuse and can relate. Foster families should be willing to be videotaped for the first year because too many people are in it for the moolah. Tough call to decide when and if a child should be removed and a new system should be put in place. There are too many crazies out there pretending to be good foster families.

Answer 2

A close friend has had her 4 children removed from her home due to a violent incident with her ex. She was arrested for domestic abuse and was 3 days away from an eviction. The state promised her help in finding a home, job and said they would reunite her with the kids. 4 years later, the promise dhelp has never arrived, despite numerous attempt on her part and many reports to her case worker's supervisor. The two girls were in the care of her ex husbands(respectively) and CPS has been to both their homes at the elementary schools request because they have been abused. One so severely that she was covered in bruises and limping. The state decided not to remove them from those homes because they don't " want to disrupt the childrens lives any further".

A 2nd friend was at work when his fiancee and mother of his youngest child broke his oldest childs jaw. The oldest was 3 at the time. He formally evicted the woman while she was in jail and got a restraining order against her. The poilce found no evidence that the children had ever been abused by him, but they were placed in foster care anyway. The first home was strangers, the second home was my friends father and step mother. The father and step mother gave them back to foster care because they were "too much responsibility". The CPS worker then gave the children to the paternal grandmother, who was a "recovering drug addict". The state took her word that she was clean. She beat the youngest child, who was 2 at the time, so severely he was unconscious, bleeding in the brain and not expected to live. He is now almost 4 and severely brain damaged. The children were never returned home to their father.

CPS is definately failing all around the country. They are not acting in a childs best interest anymore because the laws are BS and the case loads are too high. No, abolishing CPS will not help. I do, however, think they need to overhaul the entire child welfare system and definately increase the number of workers. I think that more supervision of case workers and better training would go a long way. I would also like to see more in the way of services to help parents and less wasted time in court.

Answer 3

When ever a child gets placed in Foster care, the police are right there with them. And if they do abolish CPS, that would double the work load for the cops who are already under staffed. Things happen that shouldn't all over the place. Bad foster parents can slip through the system.

Answer 4

It would require moving all the CPS resources into law enforcement, along with sufficient personnel to handle the additional case load, most of whom would come from CPS.
So, the net result would change nothing except the title.

Besides, CPS doesn't make custody determinations. They make recommendations, but the courts rule on custody orders.

As far as the foster parents being abusive, that's tragic. But ti happens. And it's going to happen regardless of how you organize the administrative hierarchy.

Answer 5

cps is usually a valuable advocate for our children but in this case they obviously failed and really should be held accountanle but since they are a state agency they are probably granted sovereign immunity and probably wont however the individual social worker responsible for the case can probably be sued or lose their job

Answer 6

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