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CPS/DHR/Youth Services is the perfect example of a well meaning program that has grown in to a horrible bureaucratic monster... It is absolutely ridiculous what they will do now.

Perfect example happened the other night. Got a call to assist DHR on a house visit. Get there and meet the DHR "worker" and she says they have reports that the mom has been "beating" the kids with an extension cord. Knock on the door and one of the daughter's answers the door and we hear the mom invite us in. Go inside and the mom is laying on the couch with a broken leg, which she just got out of the hospital that day with. DHR tells her why they are there and the mom is flabergasted. DHR goes outside to talk to her supervisor after grilling this poor woman. When she leaves I start talking to the lady about her kids. She has a son who is around 10 years old and is a problem child. The mom and I come to the conclusion that the 10 year old probably told someone at school that the mom "beats" him because he was mad at her for grounding him. Someone at the school calls DHR and that's when they showed up. The mom has 3 other kids and I heard all 3 that were there tell DHR that their mom doesn't spank them unless they deserve it, and then only with a belt. DHR worker treated the whole thing like the mom was guilty from the get go, never seemed to acknowledge that the 10 year old was the problem, not the mother.