Failure to Protect – A look at CPS and the System

I’ve added a new page,

Failure to Protect – Caseworker Files.

Go check it out and the source:

PBS’s Frontline series about CPS and our families/system.

The information and stories are indescribable

and full of information everyone needs to know.

I’d love your comments on it, and if you’ve been

affected by CPS and the system, please tell us your story.

Everyone deserves to be heard.

“We see them in special education.

We see them in the justice system.

We see them in the prison system.

We see them as parents,

where now we’re asking them about taking away their children.

So at some point, this country has got to come to grips,

where the rhetoric about our children

and the resources to carry out that rhetoric have

got to be matched. And there is not so far demonstrated

in this country that the political will is there to do that.”

“The whole system is a way of dealing with poverty,

especially with poor minority families. And maybe if

we admit it, we would be more willing to take those

billions and billions and billions of dollars spent

on keeping children away from their families,

on providing support for children and families to

begin with, so that they wouldn’t have to end up

in a system like this.”