Checkmating the Egregious Bane of Family Disjunction
Child Protection Act, a law in urgent need of an overhaul. Now, before i begin i would like to put it across to all readers that i in no way support or condone child abuse in any form. Rather what i seek is a situation where families are not seperated for flimpsy and unrealistic excuses.
Many a time, i would take to social media and come across stories of broken families but it was not until about a year ago i gave serious thought to the social structure that is the 'family'. In order not to waste too much of your time, i will be laconic and dive straight into the issue at hand. Please lend me both your eyes and minds.
Saturday morning, you and your spouse are making breakfast and your two kids are still in bed fast asleep, you have planned a trip to the park or to go see a movie. Suddenly, the doorbell rings, you walk over and open the door, a man or woman stands there and identifies him or herself as a child protection agent or social worker. Before you can ask what the issue may be, they begin to speak with such sprezzatura about how they received one complaint or the other and are here to dispossess you of your child. Initially, you take it as a sort of cruel joke and try to defend yourself. A couple of months down the line, you are jumping from courtroom to courtroom and agency to agency for an issue that you still cannot make construe. To exacerbate issues, aside from the resources spent and emotional strain on the family, the judgement goes against you and your spouse for obscure reasons. Your kids are taken away from you and sent to different foster homes. This my dear friend is how easily a family can be dispelled by the bête noir that is child protection service
While i do not deny the fact that indeed some persons do abuse their offspring. I find it noxious with which the ease the CPS break up families rather than try to manage the issue. Sometimes, a parent or the parents may actually be innocent of any or such abuse and the children are still taken away only to be sent to other families who may actually be the persons who will treat them less than human. A popular saying from where i come from goes thus, "from frying pan to fire", that is to say that the children are taken from their natural families with whom they have this loving connection and sent to a new family, more often than not, a rich family who do not have a child of their own as at the time to do whatsoever they please with the child. Apart from the issues surrounding the child, the parents of said child will undoubtedly undergo a 'nadir' in their lives as both a couple and as parents, but that is an issue i will address another time.
Some questions among others that need to be answered posthaste;
How are the CPS absolutely certain without a doubt that the parents are indeed guilty?
How do we know that every available option has been employed to no avail and that this is the final option?
Has everything necessary been done to reduce the breaking up of happy families pr does this agency just focus on taking away children to make it seem like are 'working'?
Does this agency put more strain on a happy family rather than do any good whatsoever?
How do they address the emotional trauma of a child who is taken from his parents? Do they just sedate the child to keep him or her quiet?
What criteria are used to screen the families or persons receiving said child.
What is the origin of the complaint? Was it just a person with something against the family?
and many more questions that need to be addressed.
A Family is the basic structure of the society and as such needs to be held in greater esteem. It is simply officious for a neophyte of any kind that come and dispel the family without a 100% certainty that the relationship is harming any and all parties involved. As such, i take my stance with @familyprotection against family disruption in any form whatsoever. I do this with conviction because i know how greatly i have gained from my wonderful parents and only heaven knows where i would have been had i been separated from them at a tender age. This reminds me about the ten year old child on the news who had been living with his step mother and had hung himself, but that is a story for another day.
Finally, a big thanks to @druids for introducing me to this platform where i can air my views, and also to @canadian-coconut, @markwhittam, @thethreehugs, @candianrenegrade, and all others not mentioned for championing this campaign. As my good friend @druids would say, The cry for Justice can finally be heard.
Please feel free to air your views in the comment section. Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by. Please come again.