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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
POA & Danigirl - is it possible that the child in question has a calcium deficiency or brittle bone syndrome? I would hope that the doctor would have investigated the child's health before reporting. It's a failure of your physician more than it is of child protective services.
Brittle bone syndrome comes to mind because my mother was an aid for a child that had it - a brilliant girl in a normal elementary school classroom that needed protection on the playground.
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GG, it's not a failure of the physician to report an injury that could very well be a sign of abuse so that it would be investigated. Especially when a child cannot speak for themselves to explain how it happened.
I have a big problem with people calling investigations into injuries and/or reported issues "failures." Every reported incident, even something trivial, MUST be investigated. Investigations very rarely, if ever, result in a child being taken out of a home where they are not abused and cared for very well (maybe temporarily, but that's cautionary and fully supported by the laws regarding these procedures). Unfortunately, investigations don't always result in the removal of children from homes where they ARE being abused or improperly cared for.
I get bothered by people bitching about long or unnecessary investigations in a system that is mandated by law and is designed to protect kids from (unfortunately real) abusive situations. These programs are always underfunded and as such cannot always hire investigators that are a) well-trained or b) expedient. Look at the child services in DC.. it's ridiculous. And unfortunately, because of their underfunding and short-handedness, kids are being left in abusive situations thanks to a lack of investigations and "better safe than sorry" precautions. And they are dying.
How I see it: giving up your child for a few days knowing that you will receive them back at the end of the investigation vs. taking zero precautions and having children die or be further abused as a result. It's a system that unfortunately requires a compromise of giving up privacy/rights if a red flag is raised in order to protect the well-being of children as a whole.