noodle

I'm a mandated reporter as well. But, I see a system in Florida where too many children are given back. Too many kids are NOT detained when they should be. They've gotten so lax that a DCF worker fell asleep in her car with a detained child in the back seat, they think drunk, that kids go back to parents and then die from the abuse. Several in the last year. If you've nothing to hide or an energetic kid then so be it if they investigate you. There should be a process between detainment and permanent removal. If not, then, yes there is a problem with the system. The problem with the system in Florida is that the goal in the courts is Reunification with the parents. Good parents get their kids back from detainment. So do those who put on a good front, pass a home study, and beat the shit out the kid two days after they get back for "telling". It's never going to be a perfect system. But for the kids it does save, at least it's there.

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