I couldn't do it. I'm too fiery when it comes to parents treating kids badly. I don't think I could find a balance between telling myself that I'd done as much as I could within the parameters of my job and wanting to absolutely 100% make sure that kids weren't being returned to abusive situations.

I'd end up kidnapping kids to keep them safe and telling the justice system to go to hell. I'd love to do fostering too when the girls are older but again, I think having to return kids to less than ideal situations would absolutely tear me apart.

So my choice is to work instead on the policy side and examine/recommend alternative child protection policies/practices.