Posted on 12/26/2014 3:52:55 PM PST by Altariel
Yet I’ve known of instances where CPS recommended the “family is better off together” when the father was molesting the children.
Most of these CPS “agents” have liberal arts degrees and couldn’t work the third shift at a convenience store.
People are out there to kidnap your kids, these days, no matter where you move to in this country.
Free range kid — never heard that term before, but it sure applied to me. If my mom knew half the places I went on my bike during the day (summer vacation), she would have had six kinds of hissy fits. :-)
My first question was where do they live? But I guess they can’t make rules for some neighborhoods and not others. Of course, the pansies will enforce their rules in good neighborhoods and on good parents because it is easier and more politically correct.
Better to let parents use their own sense of safety for their kids.
Add to that the whole “shots will be fired” comment before and you have a good case in my mind.
“They got 1/2 way when someone called the police.”
Here’s the problem; Some busybody called the police! If everyone who called the police had to be identified and if any charges were brought the busybody would have to bring the charges. That would stop all the nonsense and only serious stuff would be reported. Every story I read starts with somebody called the police.....
The answer in Maryland is:
1. Get a lawyer if you are going to stay in the area. CPS is shockingly terrible at their job - they do not have the resources to follow transient parents who abuse their children, but they are like bulldogs going after stable parents who make different parenting choices from the Nanny State advocates.
2. Once CPS is on your case, you have to do what they say until a lawyer gets a court order permitting you to parent your own children, or your kids will be in immediate danger from CPS “solutions” to the problems they imagine exist. Some foster families are good, but the demand exceeds the supply of good foster homes, and the children they take from good parents are uncomfortably likely to end up in a terrible place.
Yes it is. Get them to get a warrant.
I have never seen any actual evidence that children are at greater risk from predators than in the past. Predators have always existed, but we have an unspoken and unexamined assumption in our society that children are at greater risk than in the past.
I’ve been trying to find such evidence for about 10 years without success.
Pure tyranny
they don’t want people to be comfortable outside their cells.
Because parents today don't take personal responsibility for their children. If something happened, the parents would probably sue the park district, the police, CPS and the city for not protecting their children.
The MSM would jump on the story, the Internet would be a-Twitter, and civil-suit lawyers would arrive in buses. The parents would be the heroes -- so brave and so strong in the face of an incompetent and inept bureaucracy that would allow such things to happen to children. Our future!
They'd probably clear a cool $10 million in an out-of-court settlement.
That's why.
Ditto exactly.
Yeah, what’s with all these moms waiting with their kids at the bus stop?
I had this very conversation with my Dad the other day.
His theory is that there aren't any more perverts than there were back in the "good old days". He thinks that they've been emboldened by talking to others like themselves (for instance, on the internet) AND further emboldened by the fact that repercussions are currently limited.
He said that if a person got caught diddling with kids back when he was a child, that person more likely than not would be "taken care of" (his words, not mine) and the local cops would take a pretty laissez faire attitude towards it.
Sez me, that makes sense. If a person knew that they were going to get offed, instead of patted on the head and told that they were the real victim by a sympathetic headshrinker .... Behavior would be modified, rapidly.
Makes as much sense as anything. Truly we are in a Brave New World.
I grew up being terrorized by CPS and would never, ever allow them on our property. Never.
Inmates may not walk around without guard supervision.
Extremely prevalent in the latino community, too.
The great majority of the time this kind of absurd nanny stat-ism occurs in the northeast (of which I am including non-merry-land).
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