Oh, don't get me started on CPS, Janie... That's an area where I can get really angry... Like who wrote those regs??? Some angry guy who gets his jollies beatin' his kids???

Heck, when I was in the field I'd reprt lots of stuff to CPS and they would say stuff like, "Did you see the kid gettin' beaten?" and I'd look 'round at kids with whelts all over 'um an' adults screamin' at the top of their lings at 'um and CPS would so much take the referral unless I'd say that I witnessed the beatings...

Hey, it's bad 'nuff that these adults felt is was oaky to threaten and scream at kids in the presence of, ahhhh, me, a social worker but worse that the kids were obviously being beaten and CPS wouldn't do anything...

Hope that has changed, too... Glad to hear that Mental Health and Social Services is doing well in yer parts... That's a bit of good news...

Bobert