Lenore Skenazy had an item in Reason the other day about CPS basically kidnapping a baby on groundless suspicions. There are some cases where children are better off being rescued from their parents and raised by foster parents, or by wolves. Unfortunately, intervention by social workers is not limited to cases of real and severe abuse, or even to cases where there are real grounds to suspect severe abuse.
I don’t have a perfect solution, but it might help if families victimized by bogus seizures of their children were entitled to compensation out of the CPS budget, and social workers were held personally responsible for extreme instances of professional misconduct.
I don’t have a perfect solution, but it might help if families victimized by bogus seizures of their children were entitled to compensation out of the CPS budget, and social workers were held personally responsible for extreme instances of professional misconduct.