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jlf1961 -> The Government is going way too far (7/30/2016 11:05:11 AM)
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Okay, this is a two edged argument:
Texas, as in many other states, has a serious problem in Family and child protective services.
For one thing, either CPS investigators either do not do a good job in follow up on complaints, which has cost the lives of 4 children in Texas alone, or they are so gung ho that they actually ignore the "best interests of family" and work to break up loving, healthy families.
In the case I am most familiar with, my great nephew was removed from the home due to his mother and grandmother testing positive for illegal drugs.
My niece admitted to using narcotics, my sister however, was a different story.
When the case was opened, my sister was placed as primary care giver for my great nephew.
From march of last year through January, my sister never had a dirty drug test.
In January she did, for amphetamines.
She does not touch the stuff. So after a lot of research, including confirmation from a pharmacist, we discovered that a medication she was prescribed will test positive for amphetamines and pot.
We took the information to CPS, who promptly informed us that it did not matter (at least to the case worker.)
So we got an attorney.
It took going to court to even get permission for my sister to even see her grandson, then another five months of jumping through hoops, a drug evaluation, random drug tests to get to a final decision, the case worker recommended non-relative adoption, and the judge basically told her she was full of shit, ordered custody granted to my sister, after my niece admitted that it would be best for the child to be raised by his grandmother, who had basically been raising him all along.
I took it on myself to involve our local state rep, who has been trying to get the system overhauled, who contacted CPS and got information (allegedly the same documents my sis got prior to the hearing) in which my sister was the primary custody goal, which was not in the documents my sister had been given two days prior to the hearing.
So, after this was stated in court (two different statements on what should have been the same document) yet another 'internal investigation" has been started.
Of course the regional director stated that "the child was not indangered" by these actions.
So, I am now helping my sis find a lawyer to file a lawsuit, I have been pestering the hell out of national news media hosts (of course, this is not a glamorous story, so automated 'thank you for contacting' are the norm.)
Yes it is bad when cps fucks up and a kid dies, but it is equally bad for workers to go fucking overboard and break up families for stupid fucking reasons.
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