| | Thanks, Luke.
I was stunned by the kind of work that needs to be done by Children's Protective Services, and by the amount, but I also discovered that some of the worst people I've met were part of the system - some of the bureaucrats, social workers, supervisors, county attorneys... really awful. And there were some really good people too - it is very hard to keep from being burned out by that work and that system.
And putting kids into foster care, despite the fact that sometimes there is no alternative, is a lot like sentencing an innocent kid to a just a slightly better hell than the one they are saved from. It is an awful system.
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