[blparent] Blind Parenting

[Tammy]

Hi,

I am in total agreement with you on all counts.  I am very troubled by the 
amount of children who are taken away from disabled parents here in canada 
purely due to their disability whether it be blindness or something else.  I 
do understand that questions sometimes do need to be asked, but those 
questions won't be answered truthfully if the person fears that their 
child/children will be taken from their care.  If these social workers would 
listen and not judge right away they might learn something, and be a better 
worker for having done so.

Tammy

-----Original Message----- 
From: Agnes Steinhoff
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:44 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] Blind Parenting

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
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