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No, it's typical for any society. There's social services in most if not all industrialized societies, that can take children away from their parents for the sa
by croon 8y ago
No, it's typical for any society. There's social services in most if not all industrialized societies, that can take children away from their parents for the sake of the child if the parent(s) are ill-equipped to raise them. That's not a bad thing.
- waterhouse 8y ago> That's not a bad thing. For the record, I don't consider this obviously true. If you search "cps horror stories", some of the results are about horrible family situations that Child Protective Services has encountered, and others are about family situations that CPS has horribly mishandled. A couple of links focusing on the latter: https://parentalrights.org/child_protective_services/ https://parentalrights.org/child_protective_services/ https://lfb.org/confessions-of-an-ex-cps-agent/ https://lfb.org/confessions-of-an-ex-cps-agent/ I'm not sure if anyone has tried very hard to make a case that the good of CPS outweighs the bad.
- bzbarsky 8y agoThe problems start when "ill-equipped" is defined as expansively as possible. See the various cases of CPS getting involved when parents try to teach their kids basic independence by letting them walk to the playground on the corner and play there. I think the way CPS is currently done in the US is actually causing a great deal of harm to current kids whose parents are totally reasonable parents...