Essay Summary: Child Protective Services And Its Roles
Child Protective Services
Each year, more than 3 million referrals for child abuse and neglect are received that involve around 6 million individual children (Committee on Child). Does that concern you? What do you think we should do about it? Do you think Child Protective Services (CPS) are vital in lowering these numbers? Well, Child Protective Services’ (CPS) job is to ensure that children are safe and healthy through monitoring families, working with school and counselors, making phone calls, and going door to door. Child Protective Services are characterized by a few different levels of power, going from state to federal policy control, there is a uniformity among state child-protection models (Patton). “... the federal government enacted …show more content…
And although in some cases Child Protective Services (CPS) may be difficult to deal with, they are an important service that helps ensure children’s safety from neglect, abuse, and a …show more content…
Physical abuse, often occurring is one of the main forms of child abuse, “One study suggests that about 1 in 20 children has been physically abused in their lifetime” ("Healthy Children."). Also, stated in a journal by pediatrician Dr. Kempe there is examined evidence of unexplained head injuries and repeated broken bones in children (“Child Abuse”). CPS is vital in taking care of these children and protecting them from violence. Although sometimes we get angry and lash out, physical abuse is not the answer to our anger, and in fact is illegal. That’s why it is very important that we have Child Protective Services to monitor and take care of children in these situations. Also, abuse is not just physical it can be emotional or sexual. For example, “High-profile cases of child abuse include 2009 investigation into Penn State athletics coach Jerry Sandusky, who had been sexually abusing young boys for at least fifteen years” (“Child Abuse”). CPS is very crucial in protecting these children because a lot of times children are scared to come forward and tell what has been done to them. And sometimes when they do come forward they are ignored, not believed, or pushed to the side. CPS makes sure the situation is taken care of, the children are safe, and that they have someone to talk to. Lastly, one of the most common forms of abuse is drug and alcohol. “We know, for example, that substance abuse is a
Each year, more than 3 million referrals for child abuse and neglect are received that involve around 6 million individual children (Committee on Child). Does that concern you? What do you think we should do about it? Do you think Child Protective Services (CPS) are vital in lowering these numbers? Well, Child Protective Services’ (CPS) job is to ensure that children are safe and healthy through monitoring families, working with school and counselors, making phone calls, and going door to door. Child Protective Services are characterized by a few different levels of power, going from state to federal policy control, there is a uniformity among state child-protection models (Patton). “... the federal government enacted …show more content…
And although in some cases Child Protective Services (CPS) may be difficult to deal with, they are an important service that helps ensure children’s safety from neglect, abuse, and a …show more content…
Physical abuse, often occurring is one of the main forms of child abuse, “One study suggests that about 1 in 20 children has been physically abused in their lifetime” ("Healthy Children."). Also, stated in a journal by pediatrician Dr. Kempe there is examined evidence of unexplained head injuries and repeated broken bones in children (“Child Abuse”). CPS is vital in taking care of these children and protecting them from violence. Although sometimes we get angry and lash out, physical abuse is not the answer to our anger, and in fact is illegal. That’s why it is very important that we have Child Protective Services to monitor and take care of children in these situations. Also, abuse is not just physical it can be emotional or sexual. For example, “High-profile cases of child abuse include 2009 investigation into Penn State athletics coach Jerry Sandusky, who had been sexually abusing young boys for at least fifteen years” (“Child Abuse”). CPS is very crucial in protecting these children because a lot of times children are scared to come forward and tell what has been done to them. And sometimes when they do come forward they are ignored, not believed, or pushed to the side. CPS makes sure the situation is taken care of, the children are safe, and that they have someone to talk to. Lastly, one of the most common forms of abuse is drug and alcohol. “We know, for example, that substance abuse is a