What constitutes suitable child living conditions?

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Risk

Mountain climber

Marooned, 855 miles from Tuolumne Meadows

Mar 13, 2018 - 08:42pm PT

Jon, my own dear, nightmare, CPS social worker who accused me of lying to the judge (in writing), complained about the sheriff-escorted visits and how more civilized clients (like me) were so much easier.

Want more information? I'm limited what I can disclose, as they have it rigged with non-disclosure conditions/laws; "gag orders." Not to mention their rules of evidence; hearsay, etc. is fully admissible.

Your events sound horrendous, too.

Ken M

Mountain climber

Los Angeles, Ca

Mar 14, 2018 - 10:52am PT

CPS is under pressure to save money, not spend it. I am very familiar with the CA system and it is definitely not skewed to screw parents. Some other states court systems are more screwed up. I have seen the good old boy network screw parents, Idaho and Arizona come to mind.

To be fair, I've only experience with the Calif system, and certainly not all of the systems all over the state. I imagine there exists some variation.

I also can imagine that some states/cities engage people with agendas---such as the "need" to get a child into a nice Christian home. you'd have to be a "true believer" to work in a system with that sort of viewpoint.

Ken M

Mountain climber

Los Angeles, Ca

Mar 14, 2018 - 11:01am PT

So when CPS runs out of real cases they start pursuing cases of superficial children abuse to make CPS bosses happy.
The larger is the budget of CPS, the larger is the number of cases of superficial children abuse.
It's the law of supply and demand. :(

Except that is not the operative factor. It would be like saying that of SAR, because you know, if you give more money to YOSAR, they will be pulling climbers off of hard climbs who are not having any trouble at all?

Children don't enter the child abuse system by CPS randomly picking names out of the phone book to go check out----the cases are generated by complaints, either by civilians, courts, cops, doctors, teachers (what are termed "mandatory reporters".

They MUST investigate EVERY complaint, and generate a report and recommendation. All removals are finally adjudicated by a judge, and usually involve the district attorney and police.