Don't just bitch about it online.
So because YOU have a bit of sympathy for CPS nobody is allowed to complain? For starters, criticism is the lifeblood of change. I can and will criticize the absolute unholy fuck out of CPS.
Yeah, they should be paid more, and they should hire more people. So that's why I criticize the system for treating them like glorified minimum wage slaves. That's a big deal and I'll definitely give you that. It's the Teacher conundrum all over again. Honestly, a CPS agent should earn 20-40k higher than they do... but so should teachers.
If you are really concerned about the system, do something about it.
Implying much? Also that's a bit of a fallacy. I can't do certain things. But I can still demand that a government subsidize program operating using my tax dollars does it's fucking job better.
The foster care system is a big pile of shit I don't even want to get into right now.
If they decide to leave the kids with the parents and provide education and assistance to the family, and the abuse escalates, CPS is wrong and gets angry civilians. If they remove the child, that's a highly traumatic experience, especially for kids too young to understand what is happening.
We're not talking about when mommy and daddy are poor and uneducated and kind of suck at basic care things here. In that case, yes, CPS shouldn't remove the kids.
Please tell me how removal of a child is more traumatic than sex abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse, rape, severe neglect, ect.
Drugs and substance abuse I can understand - because you can say "hey, clean up your act or your privileges are revoked". But abuse and severe neglect should be cause for instant removal. Abandonment issues are worth it if the alternative is getting beaten and/or raped or forced to perpetually be starving or living in filth for 16-24 years.
Yeah, finding the right solution isn't easy. Neither is investigating and finding the proof necessary to justify taking action. Neither is dealing with 100 cases at once.
But too fucking bad.
If you wanted an easy job you should have gone into retail or prostitution. When the lives of children are on the line you need to nut up and do what you can do. I mean if there is a child clearly suffering, how can you justify walking away like "whelp, case closed!" ?
Sure the system sucks, and it needs to be changed. But there's also something fundamentally wrong with the way cases are handled, when almost everyone in the country has known CPS to fuck up more cases than they win.