Ehh that red tape, generally again I didn’t watch this so idk, is based on the fundamental right of parents to their children. It’s to prevent government intrusion in personal liberties. Where the line should be drawn idk, it’s a tough call to make. Draw it too liberally and the state can take kids for nothing, draw it too stringently and kids get left in homes they have no business being in.
@Awoken2 ok. In all the years I did that job I only had one kid placed in residential. All the rest were either placed with relatives or foster homes. The one who went to residential was because she just kept running away.. she wanted to go back to her mom. Her mom was strung out on drugs and homeless so it wasn’t possible. She needed to be somewhere that could monitor her 24/7 because she couldn’t just be running into the streets at 3am.
There is a lot wrong with the system. First and foremost it is severely underfunded and the social workers who staff it don’t have the resources to adequately do their jobs. No one can properly monitor hundreds of kids without something falling through the cracks. There are other issues as well. Plenty of them but I don’t know if you guys truly understand or realize how incredibly difficult that job is.
I had a family of four kids in foster care for over a year, worked intensely with their mom to get them home, she completed everything we asked of her I went above and beyond making sure the home was ok, the mom was ok.. I brought them home and an HOUR after I left the boyfriend bit off moms finger in a drunken rage in front of the kids, the older son jumped in between him and the mom with a knife - it was a disaster I had to turn right around and take them back. I had no way of knowing this was a risk. Mom never reported anything, no criminal record, passed his substance abuse screenings, kids never said anything.. life is crazy. People are crazy. Not every thing is so clear cut.