[blparent] Blind Parenting

[Agnes Steinhoff]

Hi Tammy:

I couldn't agree more with you.  I think social workers get too much into everybody's business.  The thing that is really annoying for me also, is that most of them don't even have children of their own.  They go by a textbook that they learned from in school and think that every family is supposed to be textbook perfect and that every child should be a certain way.  I have met very few social workers who have children.  They may be textbook educated, but when it comes to actually raising a child, it is totally different.

For one thing, the last time I checked, there was no instruction manual attached to the umbilical cord when the baby is born.  You give birth to the baby and then you are expected to raise them for the next 18 years or so.  If we all had textbooks about raising children attached to the umbilical cord, I'm sure that there would be no such thing as CPS involvement.

Lastly, I thought that the whole purpose of Child Protection Services was to protect children from abuse and maltreatment and not from disabled parents.  I just feel that this CPS thing has gotten out of hand.

Agnes