description: Child Protective Services . . . an agency designed to protect our most vulnerable population, the children. When the rest of the world has turned their backs, this agency is there to help. But are they? Are they protecting the children?Dark Secrets is a look into Child Protective Services like has never been seen by the general public before. It takes you through ten years in the life of Terri James'. A woman whose life ambition was to be a child protective specialist.Dark Secrets takes you along on some of the more intriguing investigations that she works. It also gives the reader insight into the office chat and humor.But there is another side to this story. That story begins each night when Terri arrives home. Next door to Terri lives Kara, a young Christian mother of four. Kara's life is dedicated to her family and to serving God. That is until her and her children's life is shattered in the midst of a mental illness. Her husband is diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. Terri watches in disbelief at what Kara is going through. When she sees that the system is not protecting her and the children, she personally offers Kara a helping hand. Once her hand is extended, Terri is unknowingly snatched into Kara's pit of hell. A pit that they will be trapped in for the next ten years. Terri, Kara and six children.After seeing Kara and her children living in total confusion for five years, Terri decides that she can no longer sit back and ignore the problems. She has to do something drastic. She has to openly admit that the agency she works for is not protecting the children. She has to admit that to governmental officials. Her drastic steps lands herin the middle of problems at her work. But it wasn't just Kara and her children that the system was failing. The system was failing numerous children. The system was failing numerous families.
language: English
title: Dark Secrets Within Child Protective Services
titlecomplete: Dark Secrets Within Child Protective Services
publisher: Whispering Words Pub