I don´t know about CPS in Canada, but in Germany, they do a very good and important job. They're certainly not monsters - but their "clients" think so, because they lack the mental capcity to understand, why themself are unfit to raise kids. Most of the time, it´s because of (sexual) violence, drug addiction (not marihuana but hard stuff like heroin, etc.) or malnutrition. Most of the kids who are taken into custody show significant deviations in social behavior. I don´t want to say that this story is fabricated, I do believe there are social workers with CPS taht don´t do a good job, but most of the time, their actions are absolutely justified and for the good of the child.
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This is not at all a rare type of incident here in Canada. I have other personal friends who have had similar things happen to them too, and I have seen it with my very own eyes as I took in a young mother who was fighting to get her baby back. They broke every law trying their hardest to steal that baby from a loving mother.
I would think that it is same in Germany, but more Germans would have to come forward and share their experiences.
Some friends of mine in Canada could NOT believe what was happening, as I walked them through day-by-day what was happening with the young mother that I took into my home and helped. But they had to believe it as everything fell into place -- unless they thought that I had some reason to lie about this, which I do not. Amd anybody who knows me knows that I am not a liar.
@aschteroth If you ever had any personal experience with CPS you probably wouldn't say that 'most of the time their actions are absolutely justified.' Making home education illegal is bad enough, but taking kids away from their parents because of it is just madness. You can't tell me that is justified. They did a pretty crappy job protecting that girl who had 8 children by her father. But that's the reason why they stepped up their game in Germany. I've heard of kids taken from their parents for home birth or even not vaccinating...so I don't think German CPS is any different from all the others.
First of all, the case of the girl you´re talking about was in Austria, not in Germany. Besides, my Fiancee works for the CPS - or Jugendamt as it is called in Germany. They can´t and won´t just snatch children away. They don´t have the authority to enter private property unless authorized by a court and backed by the police or if they have the direct permission of the family. You don´t seem to know what you´re talking about.
No, there was a similar case in Germany, look here: http://www.dw.com/en/in-light-of-abuse-scandal-germany-steps-up-child-protection/a-14846129
And I know what I'm talking about. They are not allowed without a warrant but they intimidate people in a way that makes it seem like they are and people let them in. I've dealt with cps three times now, once in Holland and twice in Ireland. I am not a drug addict, I drink maybe twice a year, if at all, my kids are well fed, with organic food, well dressed even though we live in the country and they're dirty often because of being outdoors a lot. And still they came... Both the time in Holland and once here was because someone (I know who) made an anonymous call. The one in Holland was because they wanted my kids, here it was because someone hated me so much they did everything possible to ruin my life. But once those people are in the door (and the ones in Holland are like the Gestapo...) you're stuck with them and they make up work for themselves.....while others walk around with bruises and visible domestic abuse signs, but because they live in a two parent family and they just won't go there easily....And Germany is huge. Your fiancees work is not the same everywhere. I do know what I'm talking about, you seem to see it very one-sided.
I feel the same way. It's like a lot of things in life, one bad apple wrecks it for the whole bunch. There are millions of kids sheltered in this country by their perspective states, they can't find homes for these children nor is there enough foster homes, I don't think this comes our way by the means of the state allowing CPS workers to kidnap children from their families, there has to be a lot more wrong for a state to want to provide shelter and care away from parents. Getting at the bad apples is what this site is trying to achieve and the only way to do that is open exposure, I wish them the best but the only way to achieve a goal is to come out of the closet so to speak not hide anger-ily inside spewing out unsubstantiated venom every now and then. If you really want to help step forward and squash them.