You are right. I worked with neglected and abused kids for many years. The parents would be awful enough for the kids to be removed and then complain that our care wasn’t good enough. Some people are just nuts.What is WRONG with people? What was the father thinking; or was he thinking at all?
^^^THIS^^^ Exactly right Dan. I saw this over and over.What makes my blood boil is that they will take a kid away and then send them right back to the same hell hole. Some things can't be forgiven. A kid only has one childhood and one is how many chances a person should get. If they gravely abuse or neglect a kid that kid needs a new forever home AWAY from that abuser. If the other parent won't separate from the abuser they should lose any right to that child too.
The state of the foster care system is awful. Often the workers have too many cases and not enough time to see them all. It’s like putting a bandaid on a surgical issue.Unfortunately, I have seen cases where the parent was really trying and just needed more support, only to lose their child forever. It's a sad thing all around. In other cases, I have seen children being raised in conditions that no animal could tolerate. And they were not helped. Like Tex said, they were returned to the nightmare.