Social Services Are Being Abused

Let me give an example. This situation happens quite frequently when a mother is wanting to fight to keep her grandchild in the home. A mother who is 45 years of age has a 17 year old daughter who lives in the home. The daughter meets a significant other and is ready to leave the home. The mother is attached to the grandchild so much that this causes an argument with her daughter. After the disagreement the daughter leaves with the grandchild. The mother then calls child services on the daughter. What happens next can be a continuous cycle. Because you can keep the call to child services anonymous, you can call several times and have he person you are targeting evaluated. Keep in mind this is only one of many situations that cause this on a daily basis between friends and family. There is nothing put into place to stop this either.

You may be wondering what happens next. Generally the child services will come to the home and make a couple of in home check ups in which they will talk to you alone, as well as the child. They will read you what was reported that was claimed against you. The claims can range from abuse to drugs, drinking, and sexual violence. This will be stored on a file for several years. The call against you can be re-reported several times from the same person anonymously. There is several problems that this brings on. One important problem is that this is not healthy for a normal and fully functional family to have to go through. This is not healthy on relationships, or for the children going through this.

Another problem that this proposes is of course the fact that we pay the wages for these workers to be wasting countless hours following incorrect leads. There are better ways of handling these situations. I encourage the writing of letters to purport better ideas into the system to change this. One of our primary goals should be to make things better for the next generation. Help join the fight however you can. Write letters, make calls, speak with someone you know who is doing this. Everything helps. For more information get in touch with your local office.