What would you have done?

[Captain_Obvious]

Re: What would you have done?

@Paheli00

I know my opinion won’t be well-liked or well-received…but here it goes anyway. Assuming the kid had clean clothes on and didn’t look like he was being starved…assuming this was a case of verbal/emotional abuse and him just getting slapped around… :hinna: … I would not have done anything.

After all…what’s the alternative? Foster care? Group home? How many of you are actually foster and/or adoptive parents? Are any of you willing to provide a child like that a safe, loving home? I often hear desis talk about adopting newborns from a Muslim country…yet no one ever wants a non-Muslim child who has been abused like this. MANY people are ok with making a phone call to CPS…but not willing to provide a home for a child like that. The CPS system/Social workers are overwhelmed with cases. They can’t even keep up with kids who’re being tortured, starved, sexually abused etc. It’s very easy to get Cops/CPS involved and assume that the kid will be safe. Yet we don’t think about what will happen after. Often kids end up in a worse situation AFTER CPS gets involved.

:hinna: Anyway…so yea…as much as I hate saying it…I would only call CPS in cases of severe abuse or where I felt a child’s life was in danger. But for a case of verbal abuse with slaps…personally I wouldnt’ have done anything.

P.S. For that kids sake, I hope he didn’t get even more of an actual beating IF the cops/CPS decided to send him back to his mom. I can easily see a mom like this blaming the entire incident on the boy and taking out her anger at you…out on him.

** And before anyone twists my words…I’m NOT condoning what the mother did. I do believe in corporal punishment but what she was doing crossed the line.

This.