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by 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.
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> 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.