tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post5279330501159709622..comments2023-10-16T06:57:51.220-04:00Comments on Disgusted with the system: Waterloo baby's death prompts state review of child-welfare systemZoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-91860725608320415672008-03-31T00:01:00.000-04:002008-03-31T00:01:00.000-04:00Sometimes I wonder if CPS just throws darts at the...Sometimes I wonder if CPS just throws darts at the wall to decide what children go home and which get TPR'd. Other times I think it's based on how much butt-kissing the parents are willing to do, and how convincing they are while doing it (hey, anyone will be cooperative to get their kids back, but hiding the fact that you think someone is an idiot who would have made a good Nazi, that takes some talent.) <BR/> <BR/>I don't know what really goes on. It's all confidential, we hear and see only what they allow to be made public, and what rumors get passed along. We hear stories of children being returned home to parents who did nothing to get their act together and obviously can't (maybe even don't want to) take care of them, and we hear stories of kids being removed for trivial reasons and dangled like carrots to get the parents to jump through hoops and dance like monkeys. Still, we don't know the truth.<BR/><BR/>If we knew the truth, maybe we'd be able to make more sense of things, and come up with some sensible suggestions on how DHS could change. We might even find out that foster parents and birth parents frequently agree, and then we might start working together, at which point CPS would crap their pants.Mystical Cosmic Sea Turtlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17146716699851514102noreply@blogger.com