Originally posted by Bullypulpit
It's the result of a children's services system that doesn't have the funding, the personel or the mandate to do what needs to be done.
Every children's welfare agency is going to tell you that their goal is to reunite families, since the biological parents are always the best choice for the children. I don't know how you feel, but that is just so much bullshit. The life of a child is too fragile a thing to leave in the hands of parents more interested in their next fix/ high/drink/trick than they are in the welfare of their children. A rational system would permanently remove the children from such parents, and have the parents sterilized.
Abusive parents have failed to grasp the depth of responsibility that comes with the ability to have children. If they are unable or unwilling to bear the responsibility, they have no business bearing children. That being the case, remove the burden from them and let them destroy their own lives so they don't fuck up anyone elses, especially a childs.