Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ethbr0 1612 days ago
This absolutely depends on local CPS, and they have wide authority within their lane. As they should, considering their mission and the interactions and choices they have to make in bad cases.

But it does mean that a lot is subject to opinion. And once you're on the radar, how do you get off? How do you prove you're a good, safe, responsible parent when the judging worker believes otherwise and has some authority to make that fact?
1 comments
dlp211 1612 days ago
By being a good, safe, responsible parent. You all are acting like CPS pulls kids away from stable homes on the daily. That isn't happening. This is a consequence of anecdote over data, where there is one or two widely bad outcomes and everyone reacts to them, when in reality, this almost never happens.
link
ethbr0 1612 days ago
> on the daily

No, I am not arguing that. I am arguing that the system allows for it to happen a non-zero amount of the time.

And as a consequence of that possibility, the fear of it happened is a reasonably motivating factor in parent behavior.

Which isn't something we can (or should) probably fix. But is something that is.

link