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As someone who works with low-income folks and sees plenty of CPS cases play out, I think the article is being pretty slanted in its coverage here. It's depicting CPS investigations as being weaponized against the poor, but this is far from the truth in my experience. Funny how people stop caring about "putting children's safety first" when it becomes politically convenient to do so. In my experience, it's actually pretty rare that a family be investigated by CPS due to unavoidable problems related to poverty. I'm not going to say it never happens, but it's far from the norm in my experience. More often, the issue is a combination of poverty and the parent not doing something they should have or otherwise making bad decisions. One can of course argue that said bad decisions are due to social problems linked to the client's impoverished background, and that's true, but it's not a direct consequence of the parent not having enough money to take care of their children, and the distinction is important. One is an issue of one government system punishing a person for another government system's failure, not the parent's; the other is a much more complex societal systemic issue that is not a problem with government systems per se, but rather a sociological problem that requires a much more complex solution. The article's framing of this issue is simplistic and seems deliberately misleading for political purposes. Bad reporting.
Do you have experience in Arizona, specifically? These allegations about weaponizing CPS to go after poor people for being poor are state-specific.
No, and to be fair, I was assuming they were more general in their accusations.