Article - Mom left kids in the van to get muffins, then came a social worker

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Wow, that’s just scary.

And on the flip side, there are all the cases where CPS Never follows up and kids stay with truly abusive parents because the workers have too many caseloads and the system does not work properly.

Childress seemed bent on getting a “conviction.” No way she should have told them if their name came up against they would take her kids. That was outrageous on her part.
 
After Childress finally concluded the children were safe — the Curry family previously had a clean record, she acknowledged — she said, “We’re just going to consider this an oopsy daisy.”
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As in . . . . oopsy daisy, we just violated your children’s sexual boundaries and strip searched them for no reason? How well-vetted are these people? Are there pedophiles among them?

I read a book called Free Range Kids and followed up by reading the author’s blog. She continually points out that there are risks to everything parents do. There’s also a risk that the mom takes the kids into the cafe, and somebody shoots up the place. Or - much more commonly - a car in the parking lot backs into one or more of the kids. To place these risk-taking decisions - and these are usually rare risks at that - into the hands of the State is ludicrous.
 
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Don’t know if you have Netflix and has seen the documentary, or have heard of this case in the news, but this is the flip side of CPS.
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My state far more often has cases of CPS neglecting cases, and then children are harmed. I don’t really blame the caseworkers in most of these, because their case load is way too high. But you will always have those who want to abuse their authority. They need to be kicked out of the system asap.
 
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While the caseworker in this instance was clearly off the chain and in the wrong with her tactics, there have been stories of an otherwise responsible parent having to serve weekend jail time or go to mandatory parenting class because they left young kids in the car unattended to run briefly into a store. In USA, don’t ever do this. If it’s not practical to take the kids in, and you can’t get another older teen or adult to ride along, then go through the drive through or ask the shop clerks or even another customer to bring you out the order. Don’t ever leave kids in the car, it often ends badly for parent.
 
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