Quest for Evil
Once the DFPS case starts there begins their Quest for Evil...
Either it is imaginary or real but when you see yourself as a good guy there has to be a nemesis, an enemy of the State, an evil to fight. Even when that evil is not there one has to be created to make sure there is someone to blame for all the money spent.
When we are kids we love life, we love our parents and we don't search for anything else. We have our parents, our parents are our God. We don't start searching for God until we encounter Evil, when we realize that our parents are not almighty and all powerful, that there are forces beyond our parents' ability to fight we start looking deeper into the sky in search of higher power to help us and to protect our parents as well.
Kids love their parents. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves. A lot of times even if the parent commits an unforgivable act the child's love stays strong. Children make parents better, more selfless, more loving, but like everything else, parenting is a process, so as reverse parenting when the child effects the behavior of a parent - is a process and it takes time. Removing a child from the parent for "reason to believe" undermines the natural process of our human evolution, our evolution into better, kinder, more thoughtful beings.
And that's where you can find Evil. Bad people don't always look ugly and good people don't always look beautiful. Looks can be deceiving. Good people and bad people look the same. It is what they do that makes it evil or good.
In one's quest for evil one place that is always overlooked is one's own soul. You don't have to go very far to find evil, it's right inside all of us, it's hiding in our desire to punish, to possess, to have unlimited success and fortune; it's hate, it's desire to be right and desire for power; it is our own ego.
What you do is not as important as why you do it. Intentions are everything. Intention to cause harm or intention to help. Many service providers for DFPS agree that people that want to help do not stay long working for DFPS. Their souls cannot handle the amount of pain the system is putting the parents and children through, the unjust separations, treating children like "packages", treating parents like criminals. The problem is that if good people don't want to work in DFPS system then who works in it? Who are these supervisors with 30 years of experience? Who are these investigators with 15 years of experience? Who are they?
In their many years of searching for Evil did they lose their humanity? Did they lose themselves? Did they simply forget what it's like to be human? What it's like to be an average person? Have their souls gotten so dull that they are unable to feel pain? Can they feel anything at all? Can they still differentiate right from wrong?
And if they can't what can we expect? Can we really expect change from the people that are so used to the way things are and are so eager to punish others, so used to the power and control they've been given for years; what kind of change can you expect if the core remains the same? You are not going to build a house on the broken foundation and we can not change the system without changing the core believe: from the desire to punish to the desire to help.
Parents are not criminals. Parents are definitely not Evil. And to make DFPS system better we have to treat parents like parents, stop searching for Evil and search for solutions: either it's helping a parent cope with an addiction or helping a parent fix damaged relationship, either it with the children or co-parent, spouse or a teacher. There are no unworkable situations, there are people that are unwilling to work on those situations.
The system has to change. Lawmakers need to step in and help make DFPS system in the best interest of the children, not in the best interest of DFPS.
No more funding should be given towards "reason to believe" separations! Fix the "reason to believe" separation into "reason to help stay together". Parents are not criminals and their desire to be with their children deserves respect.
Parents are humans. They make mistakes. They deserve second chances way more than any criminal out there because they have children, because their children love them and because together we can make healthy families, and healthy families make a healthy society!
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