The main problem could be summarized that the child protective services are human, all too human. Society, including the courts, simply trusts the individual social workers in almost every case. And the individual social workers trust their own feelings. That way, the system gets close to completely arbitrary: All families that give a co…
The main problem could be summarized that the child protective services are human, all too human. Society, including the courts, simply trusts the individual social workers in almost every case. And the individual social workers trust their own feelings. That way, the system gets close to completely arbitrary: All families that give a couple of social workers a bad feeling are in danger of getting split up by the system. And I'm not exaggerating. Authorities really are making life-changing decision for tens of thousands of children every year based on feelings and the rest of society is going along with it.
I get very concerned when countries that want to build up their welfare states are looking to Scandinavia, because there is no other way to interpret this than that our societies are rotten to the core.
The main problem could be summarized that the child protective services are human, all too human. Society, including the courts, simply trusts the individual social workers in almost every case. And the individual social workers trust their own feelings. That way, the system gets close to completely arbitrary: All families that give a couple of social workers a bad feeling are in danger of getting split up by the system. And I'm not exaggerating. Authorities really are making life-changing decision for tens of thousands of children every year based on feelings and the rest of society is going along with it.
I have written too much in Swedish about. I know of only one text in English and it is about Norway, where things are at least as bad. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/norways_hidden_scandal
I get very concerned when countries that want to build up their welfare states are looking to Scandinavia, because there is no other way to interpret this than that our societies are rotten to the core.