Does Dept. of Children and Family have too much power?

I agree at times they are often way to involved in the wrong cases. The problem is it is really easy to accuse someone and very hard to prove your innocence. Even if you are proved innocent it still stays on your record. My sister had run into some trouble once and it still irritates me. My niece was under 3 at the time and I forget what she did but my sister told her she was wrong and my niece had a fit (as many kids will do). So my sister put her in her bedroom and told her to stay there until she calmed down. She shut the door, not locking it. My niece started banging on the door and screaming at the top of her lungs to be let out. One of our neighbors called the cops. My sister was a bit shocked when a cop knocked on her door, my neice was still carrying on though. She let the cop in and let him walk down and he opened the bedroom door to see my neice. He checked the house making sure it was clean, that there was enough food etc. He left but the fact that he was called out stays on my sister's record with DCF until my neice is 18. I do agree there are some out there that need DCF called but sometimes people need to realize when parents are being parents and kids are being kids. There is a difference between punishment and abuse, etc.

The DCF, has the ability to ignore the children who are actually being abused, but spend much time harassing the parents who actually give a damn about their children. I think that DCF need a complete overhall. It is sad that anyone can call and claim abuse. YOu are on their record until proven otherwise.

yes , power with more response on there child and family

I've never had to deal with that but Someone must of reported you for them to as you called it "all up in your business". I say that they are probley just making sure that your 4 year old child is fine and well taken care of as they do those with the rest of the families that get reported.The reason you are getting angry is cause you know your daughters perfectly fine but just think atleast they do care and they are looking out for all kids well being. Thats the only bright side hope it all works out for you and that they see your daughter is fine and leave you alone!

They seem to pay more attention to those NOT needing their help than the hurt kids being abused daily. I think they should do throughough evaluations of both the family in question AND the source of the claim!

This is something very delicate. They take things very seriously and do not want to take risks with children. I wish you the best!

The DCF has definately too much power and something out to be done about them.

What are his allegations, can you go about disproving them?Has the dept put you on any kind of probation where they check in and observe your situation? Have you been involved with the welfare system previously that he knows how to sic them on you, and do you have an advocate who works in yoru defense?

this happened to me and im not sure why. First of all i think people who make these sort of reports should not be able to hide behind the shield of annonimity. One of the big problems is that anyone can call the ss and tell them that your child is being neglected. When it happened to me, i was called in for an interview to answer an accusation that i had been seen treating our eldest daughter like a rag doll in the street. It was thankfully recognised as a malitious allegation but put our family through hell. It is not the power of the ss i resent but the annonimity behind which people who make these alegations are allowed to hide

I do believe they have too much power. I think it's scary to think that if you raise your voice to your children, in a way that offends someone, they can call DCF and report you, and then you have a social worker come to your house! That's rediculous!

NO IDEA

Yes I have dealt with them before in which they apoligized to me after finding out the situation was false. What makes me mad is two of my step children were molested before my husband and I got custody of them. Do you know the state told us they couldn't do anything without a witness or evidence. I hate state officials who don't help.

My mother is a foster parent. Most of the time when a parent is innocent they don't believe it because it is the child that accused them. If a child is saying that things are going on in the home, then it is. That is the way they look at it. You are guilty until proven innocent. They are going to take your child's word over yours.