If you think Childrens' Services is just a bunch of wonderful, caring professionals who are out to do the right thing, you need to ask them a few questions.  Listen carefully to their answers.  Likely you will find, as we at CPR have found, SCF is an organization in serious denial.

• What is your estimate of the number of children wrongly taken from their families annually?
• How many caseworkers have been discharged  in the last three years for overzealous action?  For inaction?
• In your own words, please characterize the damage caused to healthy families by forcible intervention. Are the effects acute or chronic, serious or mild? Do they affect the entire family, or just the parents? Could you name one or two clinical studies that support your opinion?
• What percentage of caseworkers in your office is married with children? 
• If caseworkers do not live in a traditional family, how are they qualified to fix the families of others?
• What percetage of caseworkers in your office have a four year degree in social work?
• What percentage of foster care children is abused while in foster care?
• What percentage of foster care children wants to go home?
• If the system protects children's rights, name the administrative rule which mandates SCF follow children's wishes about with whom they will live.
• What percentage of former foster children are glad that SOSCF intervened in their family?  How do you know this?
• What is meant by the phrase, "thorough investigation"? Does this mean talking with friends, teachers, family, and neighbors? If so, would you mind providing written policy as evidence such is the norm?
• What internal caseworker disciplinary procedures are codified in SOSCF Administrative Rules?
• Could you show the written minimum requirements for caseworkers in Oregon?
• What is the percentage of parents charged with criminal offenses in child abuse cases? Why isn't this considered to be "double jeopardy"?
• Why is forcibly removing a child not considered arrest?
• Why is removal of a child not considered to be a penalty to a parent?
• On what clinical basis do you make the claim that a single mark, welt, or bruise constitutes child abuse?
• Would you care to speculate why so many people in the general population who were given hard spankings, even whippings, by their parents as children, love their parents, know their parents were good parents, and are themselves contributing members of society? Were their parents abusers?
• Please provide the administrative rules governing the phrase, "threat of harm".
• Is it or is it not true that any disciplinary spanking risks a welt or bruise?  If so, why do you claim spankings are still legal in Oregon?
• What is your opinion on a citizen's review board for caseworker discipline through fines and unpaid leave?
• If caseworkers break the law, what criminal and civil penalties do they face?   Please be specific.  Have you any definite knowledge of caseworkers so disciplined?
• What administrative rules define what is NOT child abuse?