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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A child being placed in foster care or even a family being investigated would be 1000 times more damaging to a child than being yelled at by a frazzled mom.[/quote]

But potentially save that child’s life. Or is death not considered damaging?[/quote]
What are you even talking about? Saving a child's life? I was not aware that yelling and cursing at a child means their life is at risk[/quote]

About 2000 kids die a year from abuse/neglect, overwhelmingly at the hands of their parents.  [b]How many of those 2000 children would be alive if someone called CPS when they saw something happening to them one day at the park?[/b]

No child— not one single child— will be taken away from their family over a video of their mother swearing at them, but it might trigger a home visit/investigation that turned up the fact that the child really was in danger. [/quote]
so you think that adding any parent who swears at their child to the already unmanageable crazy high CPS caseloads will save more children? ooookay.

You realize that many (Most?) children who die already had CPS involved, right?

Man, I don't even know where to begin with this. [/quote]

You think the greater evil is the possibility the child ends up in foster care, I think the greater evil is that the child dies. I see your perspective I just don’t share it.  I sent this thread to a teacher friend and she said a mandated reporter would almost certainly have to write this up if they witnessed it.[/quote]
no, I think the greater evil is that MORE children will die because you think every parent who swears at their child should be investigated. CPS workers barely have the time or resources to help and investigate the kids that are showing up to school will visible bruises or who complain about being sexually assaulted, exactly where do you think all this time and extra bandwidth is going to come from to make a home visit/investigation for the homes where parents are swearing at children?[/quote]

Again, not the swearing, threatening a beating. [/quote]

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