I see a lot of people not wanting to do their jobs properly but want to get paid top dollar. Its a backwards world out there.

I somehow don't believe people end up working for the CPS to earn "top dollar", probably the salary for working for the CPS isn't the best.

I tend to believe in the best in people. The CPS would probably have worked out very well mot of the time if it was staffed with people that came to the CPS because they wanted to do a difference, truly cares about children, and - perhaps equally important, get to see positive results from the work they do, gets to see the smile on the faces of children rescued, as well as positive feedback on the work they do.

Now, the reality is probably quite grim:

• The employees in the CPS gets to see the worst of humanity, the worst dramas and worst problems.

• The employees in the CPS gets almost no positive feedback, only negative. Damned if they do, damned if they don't - the CPS gets criticized if they take away children, and they get criticized if they don't intervene as well. Even with a well-working CPS, the press will always report on the bad news. Even in cases where the CPS is obviously right to take away the child, the press will blame the CPS for doing the wrong thing - as only one part of the story can be told, the employees in the CPS cannot and should not comment on the cases or persons they are dealing with.

• The employees in the CPS has limited possibilities and resources to really do things better for the children. Like, if the only options on the table is to either leave the children homeless out on the street in the cold in the middle of the winter or to let them into such a family shelter, then nothing is right. Foster care or orphanage homes are also seldom a good solution, it may just be merely better than leaving the children with people that shouldn't have become parents in the first place.

• Many of the children they deal with are already sufficiently scarred by traumas that they will never smile. Many of the children they deal with are difficult to handle.

• The CPS should work with and cooperate with the parents - but there is a big stigma with getting involved with the CPS, and there is also a big stress knowing that the people on the CPS can take away the children even without a court order (jurisdictional differences apply, of course), hence the parents are seldom in the mood for a friendly cooperation with the CPS.

• Many of the bureaucrats at the CPS probably don't get to see and meet the children much, for them they're just objects in a file.

Under such conditions, even the best people tend to get broken down, demotivated, even "dehumanized" and do a poor job - well, actually not, the best people will for sure resign and find some more positive work to do.