Why Child Protective Services Scare Me
As I hope I’ve made clear in my post on the Mormons who lost their children, I’m very protective on the bond between a child and parent. I’m very suspicious of government agencies that claim to have our children’s best interest at heart, but then take children from their homes– sometimes permanently.
And I’ve read a lot of these stories. It’s the power that these people wield over parent’s lives that scares me. That they act as if they have more rights than the parents to the children is foreign to me. And that they can assume that parents are guilty until proven innocent and use that to justify removing a child from a home is wrong according to the founding principles of this country.
And then something like this happens1:
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