"The way you phrase it, you minimize what's a completely horrible thing and make it sound like she's making a big deal out of nothing..."
It wasn't my intention to minimize anything. What I'm saying is, if the county/state where she's at is terribly funded and horribly overburdened dealing with, say children raped by adult caregivers, and they are going to either totally ignore this kid-on-kid stuff and/or have no kind of useful help (such as counseling) to offer, that would affect my decision of whether or not to involve CPS.
The OP witnessed an instance of same-age groping in this house. The OP witnessed an incidence of a child 5 years younger being harassed to take off his shirt. The OP witnessed multiple incidences of the children playing behind closed doors. Honest to goodness, while I would keep my kids far away from these people, I would be very conflicted about whether to initiate an action based on this evidence that I thought might lead to an unnecessary removal, particularly in if I lived in an area where CPS was a bare-bones, old-school operation.
It wasn't my intention to minimize anything. What I'm saying is, if the county/state where she's at is terribly funded and horribly overburdened dealing with, say children raped by adult caregivers, and they are going to either totally ignore this kid-on-kid stuff and/or have no kind of useful help (such as counseling) to offer, that would affect my decision of whether or not to involve CPS.
The OP witnessed an instance of same-age groping in this house. The OP witnessed an incidence of a child 5 years younger being harassed to take off his shirt. The OP witnessed multiple incidences of the children playing behind closed doors. Honest to goodness, while I would keep my kids far away from these people, I would be very conflicted about whether to initiate an action based on this evidence that I thought might lead to an unnecessary removal, particularly in if I lived in an area where CPS was a bare-bones, old-school operation.
