Comparing CPS in Canada and in Portugal

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CPS in Canada and CPS in Portugal have different issues.
A big issue in Canada is the massive removal of children from their parents without a decent reason.
In Portugal, although that sometimes happens, it is not such a widespread issue because the government doesn't want to spend money.
However, from what I've been reading, I believe the situation of ALREADY fostered children in Portugal is well worst than the ones in Canada.(you can check more about things happening in Portugal in a previous article I wrote https://steemit.com/fight4truth/@fight4truth/shocking-things-happening-with-fostered-children-in-portugal)

Sure that in Canada or wherever else in the world, fostered children will be in a bad situation because, generally, children are much, much, much better with their families and with a mother that had them inside of her than with people that see them as a source of profit.

However, in spite of being a much more developed country and have fosters that have not so bad conditions as in Portugal, CPS system in Canada is probably one of the worst systems in the world regarding to exaggerately removing children from parents.
From what I have been reading, more than 1% of Canadian children are in foster care. That's completely insane!!!!
In UK, which is a systen where people claim that children are also removed exaggerately from their parents, the rate of children in foster care is 0.18%(it was 0.02% a few years ago), and in Portugal is probably lower than 0.01%.

I think that the reason for the fact that this thing is happening in Canada is the one I mentioned in my last article(non-governmental organizations with State power doing States' job and receiving funding that is proportional to the children taken from their parents)

I think that a good strategy for Canadian people who fight abuses from the system could be trying to change legislation so that CPS' investigations are made by an independent governmental organization whose funding is independent of the number of children in foster care.

It should be an entity just to investigate abuses on children that would be completely independent from the entities that handle fostering.

Funds would not depend on the children taken to foster because a well done investigation costs the same if they come to the conclusion that a child is OK with their parents than it would cost if the final conclusion is that the child should be removed from the family.

Those investigations should be made, not by non-profits, but directly from the government, as nearly anywhere else in the world.

I'm all for private initiative and it has been proven to work better in nearly every situation but there are very specific situations in which state intervention has proven to be better.(example: funding scientific research that has no direct application, etc)
This is also one of these cases.

In Portugal there were specific cases in which children were unfairly removed from parents(as mentioned in my article https://steemit.com/fight4truth/@fight4truth/shocking-things-happening-with-fostered-children-in-portugal ) but it's not widespread as in Canada.
The big problem in Portugal is what happens to the children in foster institutions.
The cases of sexual abuse(again as mentioned in my article https://steemit.com/fight4truth/@fight4truth/shocking-things-happening-with-fostered-children-in-portugal ) and the fact that Portugal has short prescription times even for serious crimes make crimes against institutionalized children unpunishable in most cases.
I believe we should use this momentum created on the Steem blockchain by the #familyprotection to fight for families and children around the world.
In Canada, in spite of being a very developed country, the situation is crazy. With a crazily high percentage of children in foster I imagine this should be a pain, not only for the families whose kids were unfairly removed, but also to all the other families that will live in a paranoia in which any scream, any bruise, any misunderstanding or pure jealousy or evilness from any neighbour may lead to a visit from Canadian CPS.
This will also affect a healthy relationship between parents and children, adding a lot of stress and fear to the equation.

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