[AMF]

I see your point, and in this case it definitely sounds messed up.

I think we agree that the *implementation* of such laws, at a minimum, needs to be changed. Oversight, proportionality, and checks and balances need to be implemented.

However, I think, from what I've read, we might also agree that children need some form of protection from the occasional terrible abuse. Just as there are plenty of stories of families who get screwed under CPS, there are just as many if not more about kids who are so abused that they are killed, permanently injured/multilated, or psychologically screwed up beyond beleif. In fact, on a compleletly anecdotal level, I have met a number of kids who fit into those categories who would have been well served by a third party intervention early in their lives.

So...the question then becomes, how to balance the need to prevent outrageous abuses with the right of parents to raise their kids as they see fit?

Is there an answer? Not sure...certainly not an easy one, of course...

But thats the real crux of the problem, no? Not the wholesale banning of outside intervention, I would say.


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[ July 08, 2004, 17:30: Message edited by: alarikf ]