When Bureaucratic Agencies Rule

The idea of having agencies to protect children from abuse is a valid one because we do have a responsibility  to protect children from the unacceptable reality that parents and guardians would actually cause physical harm to their own children. However after a number of very public and glaring failures on the part of these agencies to fulfill their responsibility has resulted in a culture where parental rights are routinely trampled and the right to privacy has all but been dismissed. Understandably their is a balance to be struck that has eluded those whose main concern is to protect children from dangerous and abusive situations in their own home. However, when the over reaching of these agencies results in the premature death of a child as in this story from Florida, it would seem logical that some of these powers should be dialed back a bit.