I love mine
but some times i wonder if it's worth it...

Over new years, my youngest broke his leg, me and missus don't know how, and now nearly 5 months later, social services are still enforcing a rule that they have to be under the guardianship of her parents(they live just up the road), but there isnt room for me up there and the youngest is still feeding off mum, so i have basically spent every night over the past 4 and a bit months on my own. All this despite the police, Surestart and all recommended medical opinion saying that we need to be a family unit again.

I fucking hate social services.
And also my missus now will not take our kids to A+E anymore.

Length: if you read this far, that's your lookout.
( Tovi boom bang a bang bangs all the time., Mon 21 Apr 2008, 22:58, 7 replies)

yeah it's just insane...
Luckily when my eldest broke his arm a couple of years ago the A+E were much more understanding that that. I had no troubles at all. He broke it playing 'it' with his brother and 2 cousins..one of them tripped over, he went over the top..'crack!'

Wheras a friend of mine and his mrs actually had their kid taken away from them for 6 months when he fell off a swing and cut his head open...social services were adamant that the parents were beating the children.
Muppets. Accidents happen, get with reality social services people!
(Asharin Stabby stab stab, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 0:02, closed)

they're arseholes
my mate's sister decided to call social services on her as retaliation for some stupid argument. my friend had her daughter taken off her for 6 months and the stress caused her to miscarry her second child at 5 months. social services still keep interfering, despite the fact that her sister has since admitted she made it all up.
wankers.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 1:24, closed)

I was a late learner
when it came to riding a bike. I had no interest until I was eleven and my younger sister got a bike. So I had to get one too. I spent more time off it than on, and was covered from head to toe in grazes and bruises. My mum was terrified that my school teacher would see the state of me when I was getting changed for PE, put two and two together to make five, and call social services!

Fortunately she didn't!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 9:00, closed)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!
Children's bones are fragile and break easily FFS! Common sense doesn't exist anymore.
So, if the collective advice of the police, Surestart and all recommended medical opinion isn't sufficient for social services, then what the hell is?
Your entire family is being punished here, which ultimately must be causing even more unnecessary distress to all of you. Sounds like one of the many cases of SS doing more harm than good.

What can I say? You and your family have my utmost sympathy, and I hope to god that common sense will prevail sooner rather than later.

*hugs*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 9:30, closed)

^this^
is my view also
(The Ear-Trumpet Addicting is NOT a word., Tue 22 Apr 2008, 10:56, closed)

Erm...
Actually Kid's bones are more supply and bendy than adult bones, hence "Greenstick Fractures" being commonplace in children.

Still.. Social services: bunch of twats some of the time, saviours at others...
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Tue 22 Apr 2008, 15:15, closed)

It's fucking frightening...
the worst cases I hear about are the ones that get dragged through the courts for years. Finally the law agrees that the family have done no wrong and aren't abusers, but are told that they can't have their child/ren back as they are going for adoption and being placed back with their family would confuse them.
(Cryptoprocta has abandoned the username of Voodoo Mary, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 23:47, closed)