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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]

You calling CPS over a mom who is frustrated will take the social worker's attention away from the kid that's about to be killed.   The CPS worker will be obligated to investigate your concern, and therefore will not have enough time to follow up on the child that has been locked in a dog cage and starved.

Yay, congratulations hero![/quote]

Or those two kids are the same one, and the mom who lacks the impulse control to not threaten her child with a beating in front of witnesses is also the one hitting him with a coat hanger when she gets frustrated with him at home.  Do you feel better if no one checks on that child and he dies?[/quote]

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