This article talks about workers confirming less reports of child abuse and neglect than they had in years past. Common sense would tell you that this is good news right? After all, that's what we want right? Less child abuse and neglect is a good thing. Right?
Not according to the system sucks.
The article reads:
A newspaper report says state social workers are confirming far fewer allegations of child abuse than they did a decade ago.
Advocates say that could be a sign that social workers are carrying too many cases, causing them to miss dangerous situations.
Social workers found abuse or neglect in 12.5 percent of such reports this year. The newspaper's analysis found that number was down dramatically from 27 percent nine years ago. Some cases from 2009 are still under review.
David Richart, a child advocate and consultant in Kentucky, says those numbers mean investigations are not being done thoroughly.
Patricia Wilson, the state cabinet's commissioner for social services, says better screening of reports accounts for some of the decline.
Now people, I've been studying Systemsuckology for a little while now and quite frankly, what this is, is spin-doctored bullshit. What they do is have some lame assed reporter write a space filler for the newspaper based on the expert advice of system sucks such as this David Richart in an effort to manufacture public support for the babystealing activities of the Child Protective Industries product acquisition team.
You see folks, this is the kind of "CPS isn't doing enough to protect children" bullshit from the same state that gets a D in protecting the legal rights of children who they have already stolen. So they're not even capible of taking care of the ones they already have.
This is also the kind of "We need to pump more money into the system because our workers are overwhelmed," nonsense that we get from the same state where another reporter, only a couple years before, wrote...
Social workers are alleging abuses in Kentucky's Child Protective Services.
In a follow-up to a 3-year investigation of CPS, NewsChannel 32 interviewed a group of Kentucky social workers who alleged families are harassed and workers are pressured in efforts to boost adoption numbers.
http://www.wlky.com/news/14596226/detail.html
Here's a series of investigative reports from Target 32 in Louisville Kentucky that should give you more of a visual on the kind of state we're talking about here.
And finally, Kentucky has also helped to contribute a moderate share of content to the archives of Legally Kidnapped which you can see simply by clicking here.
So..
System suck advocates say the state's current trend of confirming fewer allegations of child abuse "could be a sign that social workers are carrying too many cases, causing them to miss dangerous situations." It could never be good news that there is less substantiated reports of child abuse or anything like that. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that a lot of these Kentucky Babystealers are incompetent fools with little or no experience in a field with a turnover rate that rivals McDonalds. And it certainly couldn't have anything to do with the with the fact that the child protective industry can't even take good care of the ones they already have or anything, right? And of course it couldn't be anything like the Industry trying not to steal kids from innocent parents any more, huh.
Nope!
They're priming you for the next high profile CPS fuck-up. The state will pump more money into the system to hire more workers and recruit more foster contractors and adoptive parents and child removals will increase by 10 to 15 percent within a year.
Just you wait and see.
I can tell you why Kentucky is going to pump more money into child protective services- WE ARE BROKE. All state employees are going to have to take a two week furlough in January to cover the deficit.
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