Ok, so there are clients and there are clients! With kids, it is either the delinquents in detention who desperately want you to get them out and are willing to lie or do anything to get out. That may or may not be a good idea since when they are out...they tend to do "stupid" or criminal things that get them right back in detention. Other kids have horrible things happen to them and although they are "damaged", they still can have child-like glee about deciding whether or not their new name (on their adoption birth certificate) should be "Godzilla" or not (true story).
Adults who have had their kids taken away fall into two categories generally. The "I'm pissed off at CPS but I'll do anything to get my kids back" and the "I'm pissed at CPS and they can't tell me what to do, they're my effing kids". The second ones are the kind that generally won't stop smoking dope or wanting to beat their kids when they do something wrong (and telling their CPS therapist that). Getting pregnant by the same jerk who beat them up before is generally "frowned upon in this establishment" and yet, they ask with child-like confusion, "could this hurt my case?". I so badly want to say, "Gee, you think?" but then that would be the problem...they don't think.
So, usually they don't get this button....
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