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Originally Posted by Loneiguana
A quick google search would have calmed the majority of your fears and would have been the first thing I would have done had I not already known this.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...s%20guidelines
From that google list:
http://dss.mo.gov/cd/cani.htm
As you can see, the information is freely available for you.
It is a valid concern to worry about a babysitter being investigated. Again though, I would point out, they still would have contacted you over the weekend had your kid been the subject of a non educational abuse or neglect.
CPS employees do not give out personal phone numbers for obvious reasons. That is why the office phone number was left. But, again, a Quick google search pulls up the supervisor number, who will, if not immediately, check her messages over the weekend.
For example:
http://dss.mo.gov/cd/office/cole.htm
Yes, my wife works as a CPS investigator.
And it is, mentally, the hardest, most thankless job out there for people whose number one concern is child protection. |
I agree that I should have hit the internet and did some googling. That is a very fair point. I'm not sure why it didn't cross my mind. It may be because I was working most of the weekend.
I figured you had to be associated with them in some fashion. Like I said before, I could only imagine how mentally taxing it must be to deal with what a CPS worker deals with on a day to day basis. The type of people that they have to deal with must be unbelievable. I couldn't imagine having to be cordial with a child abuser as I'm removing their child from the home. I'm not so sure I'd be able to handle it.
It's fine that you're coming in here to add your perspective, and defend your wife's profession, but it seems as though you don't want to acknowledge at all that this specific situation could send a parents mind spinning. I don't think that is fair.