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** Even states with fairly good programs run into the issue of finding and keeping good social workers - it is an often thankless job and fairly traumatic. New Jersey's Department of Youth and Family Services is filled with people who used to be case workers and now work in other capacities (such as office coordination and IT) because people can only see suffering every day for so long.
*** In the UK (at least) workers for social services that involves child abuse has to see a therapist or some form of counsellor, to try and help with the burden.
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* Even without the issues involving funding and resources, there is a lot of inertia to overcome when it comes to something like taking a child away from their family (regardless of how horrible the family may be.) Many families will often fight the system when a child is taken away, saying that it's a violation of their rights and that they aren't abusing their children, instead they're disciplining them. It's always possible that kids that should be taken away won't be thanks to bureaucratic red tape.
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