[r9etb]

I have seen young borderlines grow up and lead terrific lives.... Others otoh, never get better.

And throw in post-partum hormonal changes.....

If you're the Child Protection folks, do you take a chance? Not an easy decision. The cost of doing nothing and being wrong is a lot higher than doing something and being wrong.

[Balding_Eagle]

The cost of doing nothing and being wrong is a lot higher than doing something and being wrong.

You don't really believe that do you?

The cost of allowing this kind of behavior on the part of non-accountable State workers will be that your grandchildren, or certainly your great-grandchildren, will be constantly under the thumbs of the State. As in the USSR.

To me, and to your grandchildren, that's a much greater cost than the state doing nothing today.

[kinoxi]

If you're the Child Protection folks, do you take a chance? Not an easy decision. The cost of doing nothing and being wrong is a lot higher than doing something and being wrong.

Is there a civil servant somewhere that would deem you an unfit parent due to anyone of a number of personal biases on their part? The answer is yes. Psychiatric diagnosis and supposed prediction also vary from individual to individual on a regular basis. To say that a psychological assessment can predict the future with enough certainty to remove (take, steal, abduct in the name of the state, etc.)an otherwise innocent mother's child from her immediately after birth ,because some bureaucrat thinks so, is absurd.

[Scotsman will be Free]

There is zero cost to cps when they are right or wrong. The entire cost is borne by the families.

[maine-iac7]

If you're the Child Protection folks, do you take a chance? Not an easy decision.

I sat in on hearings in my state capitol where the state admitted that up to 86% of the families they move against by taking the child out of the home - prove to be unfounded.

Those children have been traumatized, their security in the ability of their parents to protect them in the safety of their home, forever taken away - child abuse, and nothing else.

Their answer to this: "Well, we'd rather err in the name of caution."

So their reasoning is that if they traumatize 86 children out of a hundred totally without foundation - that's okay?

That okay with you?

[Chickensoup]

The cost of doing nothing and being wrong is a lot higher than doing something and being wrong.

No, I disagree.