Sometimes when I hear about someone’s childhood where there was abuse, I wonder what his/her experiences would be like, had someone intervened.
Without CPS, there can be severe trauma and the child doesn’t know that it isn’t normal.
With CPS, there is also severe trauma and the child has nonfamily coming in and making huge changes, and telling the child that abuse is wrong.
The priority goes to parents raising their children, so long as they become better parents and work with CPS.
In retrospect, I wonder if there is research on adults who were abused as children without intervention vs those whose parents had CPS step in.
Sometimes parents abuse their adult children. Would that have stopped or been mitigated if CPS came in, early on, provoking changes in the parents’ behavioral patterns?