Child protective service workers share their "secret truths that haunt"

motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/child-protective-service-cps-social-worker-truth-telling-abolish

Their gatherings were like something you’d expect after war, or genocide. Halting voices. Silences. The hush of a confessional. But these weren’t soldiers—they were social workers.
They spoke from their homes via the dispassionate confines of a Zoom conference. One woman talked softly about “apprehending” a 2-day-old baby, and recalled crying when she was praised for doing…

This story appeared on motherjones.com, 2023-09-19.
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