I can't believe that we put these people in charge of safety for our children. These numbers are atrocious! These people are here to make a difference and help children live good lives, and all we are seeing is children living lives that no child should ever have to bear. Do something for our state and stand up! But most importantly, do it for our children!!! Our future!
Brittany D. - 13 years ago
I don't understand why this entity is allowed so much power. This is appalling and breaks my heart. We need to demand that DCFS be held accountable -- just as they would hold others accountable under their rules -- for their crimes against innocent children and their families.
I used to believe that DCFS was full of noble people -- and perhaps their intentions, at least in the beginning, to protect children WERE noble... but, (and again, as DCFS would say,) intentions aren't worth anything ~ and actions speak louder than words. DCFS has become corrupt by it's unchecked power.
We need to make a change... before more children are ripped from their homes and their families for no reason more than DCFS decided it was "necessary" and then discard that child as soon as they bring them in to be "processed" (as if they're pieces of meat). The children receive no comfort. No kind words, no shoulder to cry on, no hope. They are taken away from everything they know and left alone. Their sense of self and in turn, their self-worth, is shattered. This will be a defining moment in most of those children's lives.
And the DCFS employees who "worked so hard" to protect these children and take them from "unsafe houses" where they were "unloved, neglected, abused, etc." watch and do nothing and only offer up an uncertain future -- where, statistically, they will face these same crimes (and often, worse horrors), at the hands of a stranger.
While I do agree with the idea that a child should be removed from a home where a parent beats them or molests them and does not want to change or get help - and other instances such as that - it breaks my heart to know that the vast majority of DCFS cases involve poor families that perhaps can't monetarily meet all the needs of their children and are deemed a bad parent and lose their children because of it.
I pray for these children, and in the meantime, plan to help change the way DCFS runs, makes decisions, and demand that it be "policed" and held accountable under their own laws and under the country's laws, just as we are.
I can't believe that we put these people in charge of safety for our children. These numbers are atrocious! These people are here to make a difference and help children live good lives, and all we are seeing is children living lives that no child should ever have to bear. Do something for our state and stand up! But most importantly, do it for our children!!! Our future!
I don't understand why this entity is allowed so much power. This is appalling and breaks my heart. We need to demand that DCFS be held accountable -- just as they would hold others accountable under their rules -- for their crimes against innocent children and their families.
I used to believe that DCFS was full of noble people -- and perhaps their intentions, at least in the beginning, to protect children WERE noble... but, (and again, as DCFS would say,) intentions aren't worth anything ~ and actions speak louder than words. DCFS has become corrupt by it's unchecked power.
We need to make a change... before more children are ripped from their homes and their families for no reason more than DCFS decided it was "necessary" and then discard that child as soon as they bring them in to be "processed" (as if they're pieces of meat). The children receive no comfort. No kind words, no shoulder to cry on, no hope. They are taken away from everything they know and left alone. Their sense of self and in turn, their self-worth, is shattered. This will be a defining moment in most of those children's lives.
And the DCFS employees who "worked so hard" to protect these children and take them from "unsafe houses" where they were "unloved, neglected, abused, etc." watch and do nothing and only offer up an uncertain future -- where, statistically, they will face these same crimes (and often, worse horrors), at the hands of a stranger.
While I do agree with the idea that a child should be removed from a home where a parent beats them or molests them and does not want to change or get help - and other instances such as that - it breaks my heart to know that the vast majority of DCFS cases involve poor families that perhaps can't monetarily meet all the needs of their children and are deemed a bad parent and lose their children because of it.
I pray for these children, and in the meantime, plan to help change the way DCFS runs, makes decisions, and demand that it be "policed" and held accountable under their own laws and under the country's laws, just as we are.