Departmentoftalkingsense (D.O.T.S)
Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min · 14 segments
**Can social services simply take your child? Who actually makes the decision to remove a child from their family, and where is the line between protecting a child and unnecessarily breaking a family…
And you've been doing this for three, four years, if I remember you said, yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, and within that time, obviously you must have come across people that have- You know, have various opinions.
Mm.
And I know for a fact, you know, previously working to some form of a capacity with, you know, young children or young men and women, and especially ones that have challenging behavior and whatnot-
Yeah, yeah
... there's always kinda like a assumed, like an assumed weirdness towards you.
Like, "Oh, h- like why are you gonna do that to these kids?" Like-
Yeah
... "You're, you're, you're destroying the family."
Yeah.
Within, [clears throat] sorry.
Yeah.
Within that kind of like environment, within obviously the last three to four years that you've been in it-
Yeah
... what is kinda like the most common misunderstanding that you see happening a lot?
I think the most common misunderstanding is that, uh, like we just said, that people generally think that social workers have just power to remove children.
Mm.
Uh, and it's interesting that you mention soc- like people believe in, uh, that, you know, we break up families.
Mm.
But in fact, you know, 'cause I'm in the profession and, you know, I would say this, and I know there would be a lot of people watching this that would-
Mm
... disagree with me, and, and that's fine.
Um, but there is a lot of emphasis put on keeping families together.
And you've been doing this for three, four years, if I remember you said, yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, and within that time, obviously you must have come across people that have- You know, have various opinions.
Mm.
And I know for a fact, you know, previously working to some form of a capacity with, you know, young children or young men and women, and especially ones that have challenging behavior and whatnot-
Yeah, yeah
... there's always kinda like a assumed, like an assumed weirdness towards you.
Like, "Oh, h- like why are you gonna do that to these kids?" Like-
Yeah
... "You're, you're, you're destroying the family."
Yeah.
Within, [clears throat] sorry.
Yeah.
Within that kind of like environment, within obviously the last three to four years that you've been in it-
Yeah
... what is kinda like the most common misunderstanding that you see happening a lot?
I think the most common misunderstanding is that, uh, like we just said, that people generally think that social workers have just power to remove children.
Mm.
Uh, and it's interesting that you mention soc- like people believe in, uh, that, you know, we break up families.
Mm.
But in fact, you know, 'cause I'm in the profession and, you know, I would say this, and I know there would be a lot of people watching this that would-
Mm
... disagree with me, and, and that's fine.
Um, but there is a lot of emphasis put on keeping families together.
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