What is your opinion of child pertective services?

In order for cps to stand they have to have kids in the system so the state can pay there jobs. The stategives up to 4000 dollars per normal children adopted and 2000 dollars more for a mentally challenged adopted child. If the child goes in to a mental instiution and is on more that 16 drugs a day they get more money.

What is your opinion of child pertective services?
It, like any business or govenment agency has flaws, and serious one's at that. It would however be a very bad thing for so many children if it ceased to exist because the fact is there are so many abused children who were saved by the system.
Reply:I agree, a necessary evil. They aren't the best people to have to deal with.
Reply:wow if people really understood that CPS doesn't want to take a kids. That CPS would rather the parents be sober, not severely mentally ill and not severely abusing their child. The cps worker would love not working until 1 am because even if the call came in earlier, by the time the cps investigator, investigated, tried everything under the sun to keep the family together, removed the child, waited in the hospital to get a physical that wait for a foster home for several hours AND NOT be home wiht thier two small children.





If people only understood that CPS wants to return children home as long as the parents are doing what the are COURT ordered to do. If people only understood the reason they canot have thier kids back becuase there is something wrong with them.





If people only understood how OVERWORKED caseworker really are. WHen people make false allegations against other families, investigators have to investigate every call that come in and complete a FULL investigaiton even though the know its not true (required by law) instead of working on real cases.





CPS workers are so overworked. They are not paid to remove children. When a CPS wkr thinks they have to remove a child they will get on the phone with their supervisors, staff supervisor and district attorney to see if a removal is warrented.
Reply:CPS here only remove chidren if there is enough evidence to do so and most children are returned home after family has councling and such and meets the courts requirments. It isn't true about the county getting more for getting more children. They have a set amount each year to spend which is why sometimes they can't even respond fast enough to a call because they don't have the money available to pay the staff they need. I think CPS is a needed service for protection of children. They do give money to foster homes because they want the children taken care of but they give more for special needs because they will require more medical care. As for mental institutions that works completely different. Another note though for you is that parents of children taken by CPS are required to pay childsupport as well and that childsupport goes to the foster parents for the childs care.
Reply:i know people at CPS and they try not to take kids and if they do they try to place with family first. They are not encouraged to have kids adopted. It is sad that it is needed but it really is. Kids are horibbly and wrongfully hurt daily. Raped by a parent beaten half to death and left with no food so that the parent can get high. The people i know see these cases every day all day long. They are needed to protect these poor children
Reply:I deeply regret that there was no CPS to help us when my siblings and I were little!
Reply:Trust me, these workers don't need to go out and look for abuse cases just to meet a quota and get a pay check. There is more than enough bad stuff going on every day. I'm sure the case workers, who are overworked and underpaid would be thrilled if people stopped abusing their kids.
Reply:Trust me they will never have a shortage of kids in the system so I don't see an issue here. It's not like they are kidnapping kids just to put them into the system they are there already and there will always be more to come.
Reply:Wow
Reply:a necessary evil -too bad that it exists.
Reply:I'm sorry you have obviously had a bad experience. Just like every other profession, sometimes you will run into a bad apple - a weird case worker on a power trip or one who has seen so much crap already that they've become too jaded to be effective. On the whole, however, people do not become CPS caseworkers because it's a "fun" job. In fact, there is an insanely high turn over rate because it is such a depressing, stressfull, and painful job.





CPS is so underfunded, understaffed, undertrained, and misunderstood that every year children who already HAVE CPS case files open (or previously open) still die of terrible abuse. Just in the San Antonio area I can think of several high media examples. There was little Giovani who was starved to death and died on Christmas Day. There were the two children whose mother killed them and hid them under her house. Ever month we hear stories of children burned, beaten, shaken, starved and neglected. It seems like half the time the news says "CPS was previously called in" or "CPS was working with the family". Obviously, CPS isn't taking ENOUGH kids - partially because the funding isn't there but also because taking a child from a family is a serious thing to do. It's very hard to analyse the danger a child is in, and even harder to go through the legal proceedings of removing a child.