GRRRRR social services

[Anon]

http://www.kptv.com/news/17951905/detail.html

Oh my word. So ok this toddler gets lost....they call police...they eventually find the toddler under the floorboard, she must have gone through a hole. Toddler is dirty but fine.

Social services are called. Parents voluntarily invite them to their home....they find the home "too dirty" (the child fell through at the grandparents home, not the parents) and take the kids.

WHAT?! I didn't read anything about abuse...animal feces...dirty clothes...or soaked diapers. "Dirty house". Ok so what. Tons of kids grew up in dirty houses. My husband grew up in a cockroach infested house. What of it? Its not their kids to take. Those kids are gonna be harmed far more in state custody than in a dirty house.

Makes me wanna scream!!!!

[amblivion]

Heh...I saw this article too and thought about posting it. You beat me too it. I think it is outrageous that they claim the parents house is too messy. With the information we have now, I believe that the actions social services took was uncalled for. I don't understand why the kids couldn't stay with family friends or whatever. I guess we are just one more step closer to having all our rights taken away.

[Anon]

Its going to just hurt kids when parents become too afraid to call police....

[John81]

SS workers have to justify their jobs and keep themselves employed by creating a need for their "services".

We sent off for a copy of the report against us and in the report the chief of police and the lead child case investigator both stated there were no signs of abuse or neglect. They said in the report there were no signs of anger control problems. Everything in the report sounded good until you read the pages where they start saying they believe there is probable cause to fear possible abuse could take place if we are not monitored. :puzzled: :loco

Guaranteed, if we had money (and thus a lawyer) these people wouldn't even have took a second look at us.

The state has been making budget cuts affecting SS workers and they are all scrambling to make themselves seem necessary. Our case worker even admitted she had been hoping for a case in our county since she didn't have any there. How convenient they managed to turn our simple situation into something to their advantage.

Many, perhaps even most, SS workers don't truly care about the children. That's just their cover story. What they care about is feeling important, having power and maintaining their relatively easy jobs.

[bzmomo7]

Did you guys look at the slide show of the room etc. that the baby was found in? Yikes, what a mess. I don't think they should have called SS either, but it was more than just a "dirty house".

[John81]

I've been in some peoples homes that were exceedingly dirty and unkempt, but I would never believe their children should be taken from them because of this.

[no name joe]

I disagree that social services have to make up things to stay busy. There are plenty of cases where intervention is desparately needed. I don't have enough facts to determine if it was justified in this case, but I have been in some houses where the health of children would be at risk if they lived there.

[deafnva77]

As long as they bring the children back til the house is safe again, that's all it matter.

too bad they can't really stay with relatives though.

[John81]

In some areas SS workers can find plenty to keep them busy, but they always seek to appear overburdened so as to make their position look to important to consider for a cut. In areas like where I live, where it's very rural, the SS workers can become like lawyers chasing ambulances.

By todays standards, many of the conditions our parents, grandparents and/or great-grandparents grew up in were unfit, unhealthy and would be deemed unsuitable places where children couldn't grow up properly. Funny how people managed for several thousand years, most living in far worse conditions than anyone in America today faces, without SS workers involved.

[Anon]

My husband's house growing up would never have passed social services inspection.

[John81]

My husband's house growing up would never have passed social services inspection.

Neither would my wifes, nor my Dad's parents house, nor millions of others.

Of course liberal-socialists are convinced they know best and that they can create paradise on earth if only everyone will let them run everything and everyone will do as they say.

[rancher824]

Did you guys look at the slide show of the room etc. that the baby was found in? Yikes' date=' what a mess. I don't think they should have called SS either, but it was more than just a "dirty house".[/quote']

The pictures I saw were of the room they had torn the floor out of. When you do something like that a clean room will look like and become shambles. And the times I have done thing like this it was for remodeling. They were tearing it out to get a child, so I am sure they were in a hurry, not worrying about things on the top side.

[IM4given]

I lose my eyeglasses in the clutter sometimes, but never did I lose any of my children! I think the baby was playing hide-and-seek under there.

I like watching all those BBC America shows like "How clean is your house?" and some of the houses families are living in in the UK would be condemned here in the US - but they don't call in social services, they just call in a cleaning crew and get it cleaned up and livable again.

One more reason to go through and straighten up the house before bedtime I suppose. I am the sort of person that I can't sleep if I have dirty dishes in the sink.

[Anon]

I do my cakes at night so most of the time leave the dishes, I'm too tired of being in the kitchen to clean up before bed. LOL.

However we do pick up the living room and everything before bed! So anyone who would come in would see a fairly presentable house.