Yet they are underfunded, undertrained, overburdened, undersupervised and, most significantly, disrespected. Teachers are paid by the public, athletes paid by private enterprise. Still, we can tell our government how to spend our tax dollars, and it's time we did so. What must be done. We need to treat child protective work as our first and best opportunity to prevent crime.
Children have short lives as children.
We must make intelligent, informed decisions about rehabilitation of abusing parents, and we must make those decisions quickly. To wait is to be too late. Of course not. The goal is to stop the creation of the predatory, sociopathic monster. Such individuals do not constitute the vast majority of criminals, but they commit crimes radically disproportionate to their numbers.