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Well, you should be concerned that so many people are hurt by an organization that pays your family. It’s harder for you to see the problem. Believe the people who are describing the abuses, and he willing to support meaningful policy change to protect families and give them a more appropriate degree of rights in family court systems.

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Our family is no longer financially reliant on these gov't agencies. It wasn't feasible to work in an environment where the county targeted (again) the health department she worked for budget cuts, which led to higher case loads, higher insurance premiums, longer hours and virtually no chance for raises in the next 2 years at minimum.

Voters chose to not invest in agencies that protect the most vulnerable in the population. As a result, those who remain are overworked, more abuse gets through the cracks, and even the best in this group start to break or start giving up on caring. Pretty big bummer.

Makes sense--glad she was able to move on.

I understand being missionally invested in the opportunity to work on the bad cases, but, unfortunately, under-funding is almost the only defense voters have against malicious or obtuse family services agents, or bureaucracy with no emergency stop button.

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