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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These responses are…something. 100% should’ve said something. If more people spoke up - strangers, teachers, friends of friends - we’d have less school shooters. If you are someone who witnesses verbal abuse of children and feel it’s a MYOB moment - you can’t act surprised when that child grows up to be a filthy human being. And you are complicit. [/quote]

That’s a straw man argument. There are a million shades of gray here from a parent yelling at a kid in a tough moment to a school shooting. Given how bad the CPS system is, as well as how under resourced, and the horrible nature of many foster homes, and the difficulties that an investigation puts on a family, there needs to be a reasonable bar for reporting. A child with bruises? Report. A child saying mom beat him? Report. A mom yelling at a kid to get in a car seat? Not ideal, but unless they are physically beating the child you have no way to know if her threat of beating is legitimate or an empty threat. Some of you guys really have no idea how bad of cases CPS actually sees to think that this merits an investigation. [/quote]

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