[fortunecookie]

Social workers contribute to child abuse.

And ignore the scariest cases, often afraid to go after the real crazies in the scary neighborhoods, so they dog the less clear cut cases, to make quota. This per a stenographer friend relating the horrors of some aspects of her job upon the clearing of a popular local teacher of all charges once the court finally acknowledged the many medical experts testifying that her son did indeed have brittle bone disease and was never abused. Three years later.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

The same thing happened to acquaintances of ours who, after taking their child to a major state hospital, were accused of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome.

Eventually the child was diagnosed with a rare illness. But not before social workers had made this couple's life a nightmare.