Take it anyway you like. Its not your issue its hers. If she wants help CPS is her tool for help. The national Hotline number is 1-800-4-A-CHILD
Take it anyway you like. Its not your issue its hers. If she wants help CPS is her tool for help. The national Hotline number is 1-800-4-A-CHILD
CPS (or any other agency) doesn't remove children for verbal abuse. They remove kids who have nothing to eat, who don't have heat or flushing toilets, who have been denied obviously needed medical care, who have been left alone or under-supervised at a young age, who have been put in physically dangerous situations, or who have received actual physical abuse. Yelling, name calling, put downs, and other forms of mental abuse - while horrible and certainly damaging to kids - can't be documented, photographed, etc. CPS cares that the kids are in good PHYSICAL condition. Beyond that, they'll tell the parents to tone it down and try to get the kid to get thicker skin. Maybe not the best solution, but the typical one.
Her best bet is to work on changing things that SHE can control on HER end - like increasing her own ability to manage and cope with stress, getting counseling at school, reading one of the millions of self-help books out there, etc. She might find that making some changes on HER end can produce some positive changes with the parental units.
Motto for today: If you always do what you always did, then you'll always get what you always got....or less.
Agreed, my reason for suggesting CPS was not to get BF what he wanted but to perhaps get the family the help they need to rebond which is real goal of CPS