Interesting. Just seen while wandering though Facebook. CPS = ___?

Paula Bennett
How the game is played!



The other day I watched two children at play. One child was teaching the other how to play chess. However, the first boy was cheating by changing the rules every now and again, when it served his purpose and in his favour. As I watched the two playing the second boy finally gave up. He claimed he knew the first boy was cheating and that there was no way he was going to properly learn how to play chess from someone who was cheating him.



I am a family advocate and find much similarity in my job, with the scene I previously mentioned. When the Child Protection System makes up standards and laws governing due process and then violates that due process, the entire system begins to break down. For example;



What good is any caseworker’s testimony, if everyone in the courtroom already knows this person or persons have committed perjury before?



What good is it to claim one is protecting a child from abuse and neglect by taking them into custody, only to abuse and neglect them, while in State custody?



What good is it when a judge makes orders, if the judge will merely ignore those orders for the sake of expediency?



There is an old adage, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”. The best explanation for such a statement is that, no matter how hard you try to make something appear good, you must at least start with some basic goodness, to begin with.



The entire Child Protection System and its’ entities have become so corrupt, so self serving, so autocratic and so narcissistic that nothing can be done to redeem its’ appearance. No amount of advertising, no amount of political spin, and no amount white washing can be successful, when report after report, denounces CPS agencies and those who work within them as careless, unfeeling, factious’ devoid of honour and completely without ethics.



How many articles are we going to read about a child who is taken from parents merely suspected of something, only to witness this child be severely abused and neglected in foster care? How many times are we going to listen to fabricated and trumped up allegations against parents, who’s only crime is to tell these nosy busy bodies to mind their own business? And… How many times are we going to see a new report where some caseworker is incarcerated for some other crime, merely because they thought they were above the law and could get away with it?



The biggest problem with creating a, “Monster”, is that sooner or later this monster is no longer going to be controllable. Hence, soon or later these caseworkers, these agencies and the entire Child Protection System is going to be seen for what it really is and end up on the scrap pile; like a lot of other good ideas that came to a bad end. But what of the countless travesties, occurring in the meantime…?


Sincerely,
many many very pissed off american families sick and tired of the double speak of government officials