waggy
No Lifer
I've wondered that about you for years, so you've got some catching up to do.
Honestly, the number of people here who seem to think CPS should NEVER be involved really blows my mind. Sorry, crappy stuff really does happen in life and closing our eyes and ears to it and refusing to even consider and investigate the possibility makes us complicit.
Unfortunately I've seen that happen firsthand; a little girl in a family I know was abused by her father for ten years and nobody in our community was willing to step out when the warning signs surfaced. It was ignorance in part; we didn't know the warning signs when we saw them. It was also fear of making a false accusation in part. Only when the dad confessed was it discovered. I wish I wish I WISH I'd have seen the signs and taken the chance years earlier and did what was best for the child.
If nothing's going on then an investigation sucks but you can weather it. If something is going on and no investigation is made then you're leaving a child to suffer. Sorry, sometimes it's worth taking that chance.
nobody is saying keep CPS out of it. I have debated your thought htat cps parents are better then real parents. CPS had a nasty reputation for a reason. its well deserved.
BUT the more i see of her father the more something has to be done. he is yelling in the background on interviews about cps. no wonder he does not want them. i bet they find the pictures of her naked on the computer (she was sending them out to people and some were posted on 4chan).