It is the state, and representatives of the state, using unlawful power with overwhelming arrogance.
How traumatic is tearing a child away from their parents? How often are the assumptions of the state wrong? When the default attitude is that the parents are bad, the state will get it wrong very often.
The very idea that the state has a right to take children from their parents for months while they determine if the parents are guilty of something, is outrageous. Especially if the concern is “neglect” (you’re not taking care of your child the way I think you should be).
If the state had any honest concern for the children, and suspected neglect, they would leave the children in the home and spend time observing, monitoring and HELPING the parents learn how to care for the children properly.
Forcibly removing the child should be the LAST option, not the default.
You make a statement that makes me shake my head in amazement: “...how would a two month old put something sharp enough to cut her tongue in her mouth...” Have you not been around a two month old? Good grief!! They pick up anything and everything and put it in their mouths.
The basic problem is a lack of humility, and the base-line arrogant attitude that the state knows better than we do...that, and a colossal disregard for the emotional well-being of the family should the state’s all-knowing wisdom be fallible.
I’ll sum it up. It’s all part of new conditioning by an evil Govt. Condition families that the State now has power of your family.
Like everything else happening today, it will get worse before it gets better (Dalton/Road House wisdom).
A two month old does not pick up everything and put it in her mouth, have you not ever been around a two month old? That is 8 weeks.
Believe me, some kids are delighted to be out of their parents’ home.
Exactly. So perfectly said.
Social workers are upping the numbers to keep themselves in business, not doing what is best for families. Corrupt and evil, but not in all states...