Do you think CPS (Child Protective Services) does more harm than good?

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madhatters4 · Accepted Answer

more harm than good? no. but there is no doubt that there are flaws within the system that really need to be addressed.

an example i can provide occurred just recently. my wife works for an adoption service. they got a call about 3 kids who's parents are opiate addicts. they have 3 children under the age of 2 (one set of twins). when my wife got there she said the house reeked of heroine and the children (again all basically infants) were just in a pen. the twins were 2 months old and just lying on the floor. the parents admitted that they only fed the children milk (not breast milk). the 2 year old had never even eaten solid food and still was unable to walk. the 2 year old also had cracked ribs that a doctor said had been this way for nearly a month.

my wife and her service took the children to interim care but because drugs were involved they had to call CPS. CPS ultimate goal is to keep kids with parents and that's what they did. rather than let these three kids get adopted CPS returned them to a very dangerous living situation where they were malnourished and neglected.

the system needs reform for sure. the idea of trying to maintain families is noble but in many cases children simply shouldn't live with their birth family

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

All these people are stupid because they never have experienced cps. They put you in homes that don't take care of you they just want a paycheck. I was forced to wear pissed on pajamas for 2 days to a week. Can't remember exactly but yea plus. All of you need to imagine getting taken from your parents at any age below 10. Probably won't feel the greatest. Just remember your relationship and how you felt about your parents when you were that young. Cps does more harm then good.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

There are notable failures in many city/county foster care systems and I don't deny that is a huge issue, but I still think they are generally the exception, not the rule. I have never seen a child taken into CPS custody that I didn't agree with the reasons it was done - and I have done a lot of work with troubled parents and kids in my life, so I have seen a lot. A lot of times it isn't even for the parent being bad but for the kid being out of control and the parent needing help to get the kid back on track.

The foster parents I have known were incredible, compassionate, giving, sane people.

None of that excuses the tragic situations where kids don't find a long term home and end up institutionalized, or when children are abused, neglected or endangered in their foster placements.

vishna · Accepted Answer

No, children need to be removed from dangerous situations, hell, enough children aren't removed from bad homes-instead they're living in hell and grow up to be adults with unspoken trauma.

alice55 · Accepted Answer

They do a lot of stupid stuff but they do more good stuff then bad one

Bananaman177 · Answer

They've been busted dozens of times in dozens of states kidnapping children on false pretenses and then funneling the children into pedophile networks.

That's right, CPS is run by pedophiles. You think pedos would be smart enough to infiltrate schools and churches to have access to helpless children, but they wouldn't figure out Child Protective Services?

Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2zO5f-EyJA

This goes so high up that they kill Senators and get away with it. Pizzagate is not about a pizza restaurant, it's about global child sex trafficking rings that secretly run the IMF, WorldBank, UN, and most world governments, including law enforcement agencies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwV5RM05bfE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0OiNdj2aP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVoDtLPEHWA

Jae841 · Answer

no way.
child protective services do a lot of thankless work that everyone seems to sweep under the rug and ignore.

their main goal is to keep children with their parents and support parents to look after their kids, in their own home, in their own way, providing the children are safe.

they help with counselling, education, accommodation services, a million hours of time and care helping parents and children connect with their families, their communities and if needed, other community services.

for a child to be removed from a parents custody that parent has to be really bad at parenting as in totally neglectful (leaving a 3y/o to cook for themselves whilst getting high) or very, very abusive

rjroy3 · Answer

I think our system is damaged, because a Kid can bruise their knee at school during recess and not say anything. Then a teacher who notices it can have suspicion of child abuse at home and report the parents. I know, because when I was like 12 or so I got into a fight with my younger brother at home. Ended up leaving him with a bruise on his arm. Teacher reported my father for abuse, when he did nothing wrong. The state took my dad to court and everything. Lawyer tried to frame my dad as a child abuser. All because that's how the system works.

I'm sure they do good work sometimes. But in my personal experience they have only done wrong. Luckily my dad didn't go to jail. I even told them my where my brother's bruises came from, but I was too young to go to court so there was just a statement. My dad can never be a teacher or do work where he's in charge of children because of that case.

Paultripp7221 · Answer

The problem with CPS is they are judge jury and executioner. One social worker has one opinion with little evidence and they can disrupt a household while sorting it out and gathering facts. As most social workers are women, they have a large bias towards women. In a split family situation, a mom can call CPS with a phony charge and get the kids with little to no evidence. Yes sometimes it is justified, but too often it's not. He will get his kids back 60-90 days later, but the he'll they cause is more power than they have. If the child is in harms way ok. Totally get it. But in he said she said cases guys are fucked and it's just another part of the family court system that favors women and fucks guys. A system that doesn't believe dads can be good parents. If it is in the best interest of the child and their core belief is moms are better parents, guy just lose out. Oh, and have to pay extra child support while proving his innocence. Just not right...

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Yes, Child Protective Services is like nothing. They make things worst.
They say their out to help the teen or small child but that is bunch of
monarchy. Sometimes people are best at getting professional counselor
to help them out instead of Child Protective Services. They say their out
to protect the child but I have lot doubt about them. I've seen a foster
mother who was given runaways to give them a home and protect them
and the teen ends up going out and getting in trouble or doing things
that just aren't right.

chrisbigman · Answer

It depends. I think the question that should be asked is, why are there a lot of cases? What is causing CPS to be overloaded with MANY cases? CPS is only there because certain people choose not to do their jobs as parents/guardians. If parents/guardians actually did their jobs, then CPS would cease to exist.

Stoner710 · Answer

I think it depends on the situation I'm adopted and CPS did not really do their jobs when I came to my Boucher mother but some children need to be taken away from their parents some parent should never have become parents CPS unfortunately has a reputation for doing more harm than good but they're the best we got right now unfortunately More often they do more harm than good however they do good here and there

Anonymous · Answer

I don't think it helps a lot of children. I had a friend who's education was screwed over by CPS by bouncing her from high school to high school across the province. She was also in evironment that contained a lot of drug use from both staff and residents in her group home and nobody did a thing about it. She was also in a lot of dangerous situations just living in a group home.

superdouch · Answer

No I think they have a legitimate reason to exist and because the cases where they fucked up are the most mediatised doesn't mean that child protective services don't often do a very good and even necessary job.

jpmoore89 · Answer

It has its place sometimes but for the most part, its an abuse of power by the government

Anonymous · Answer

Most of the time a child in CPS ends up more fucked up than they would if they were home.
A lot of times they take a child when they shouldn't but then let a child stay when they shouldn't. It's a fucked up system.

Anonymous · Answer

How about fucking explaining your position before asking this question? Why do you think it might do more harm than good?

Prof_Don · Answer

No system is perfect, but I feel that CPS is more good than bad

mattmanyah · Answer

yes because they are to burocratic and overloaded... a cps worker is meant to have 6-7 kids to look after the norm is 20 to upper 30s... they just don't have time to do the job well

christian_witch · Answer

Not at all. In fact they should have more power in most cases to remove children from abusive households.

John_Doesnt · Answer

After seeing the drunk, abusive and drug addicted parents on my block no.

zagor · Answer

Be nice if a lot of these morons just wouldn't have kids in the first place.

Anonymous · Answer

They do lots of harm and try to find an excuse to take kids away from parents that are struggling financially.

legalboxers · Answer

They try and do their job but fail to protect the kid

Ryublack · Answer

in most cases it does more good

jacquesvol · Answer

CPS are REALLY needed.

Leandri · Answer

Nopes I don't think so

cutemz · Answer

Nooo

Anonymous · Answer

No, I don't...

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