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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People don’t seem to understand that CPS involvement can be very traumatic for the child. There is a big cost to involving state authorities in a family that doesn’t really need it. The threshold should be high.

Won’t put the link here because of spam-catcher, but recommend that people check out the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. Also worth checking out the testimony to and findings of the Massachusetts Mandated Reporter Commission in 2021, which are available on the web. They got a tidal wave of testimony from community organizations and activists as to the human costs and damages created by excessive mandated reporting.

CPS are basically a police force directed at families and just like involving the police there is a downside that has to be considered. In fact, you have many fewer due process rights when dealing with CPS than with the police, and the proportion of CPS cases where involvement of the state is justified is much lower than with the police.

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I think people understand that and [b]also[/b] think mandatory reporters should report child abuse in this case.

Remember the kids whose parents escalate to serious violence didn’t get the opportunity to testify because they’re dead or impaired for life.[/quote]

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