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kirkspencer6/07/2017 9:11:29 am PDT

re: #261 Teukka
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It’s happened here in Sweden as well, more than once, healthcare, school and police make complaints to social services, which in turn do absolutely nothing. One of the cases, the girl became pregnant twice and gave birth to the children, and nothing happened, despite the child having very characteristic problems to extremely close cosanguinity.

I think it boils down to, not as much as not caring, to something being seriously amiss in in the science on which early detection and prevention is based on.

Here in the US I think the biggest problems are due to it being a subject with multiple conflicting interests and a shortage of appropriate funding.

By conflicting interest, consider all the ways “do what’s best for the children” can mean to various parties.

And consider simple practicality with this fork. Social worker gets call, comes, and decides to take children away? hammer. Gets call, comes, and decides it’s not quite at that level? hammer (once/if the sordid details - which would have required a warrant and a bit of luck to discover - come out).

The most cynical people I know work in child services. They beat prison workers, attorneys, and soldiers by miles.