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Advice...

I am not sure if I have written about this before but since I have some time to kill at the hospital here it goes.  I work for CPS.  Which I know lots of people including family have issues with CPS.  But that it is not what this is about.  This is about people asking for advice.  I don't mind giving advice to people about CPS.  But my issue is that when people don't take my advice and then the whole situation blows up and then they come back asking more questions.  Well now I have no advice. 

Several months ago a family member emailed me asking for advice because she was involved with CPS.  I gave her advice and she either didn't like it or didn't take it and then she emailed me a few days later with a questions that I could not answer because I no longer knew how to help her.  She got mad and has never spoken to me again. 

I belong to an online forum for LDS moms.  About a year ago I got an email from a another member of the forum asking advice.  Once again she did not like the advice I gave and it turned nasty. Kind of like the discussion I am in tonight about how horrible CPS workers are.  

I have a good friend who asked CPS questions.  I told her what I knew but she lives out of state she told me that she appreciated the advice and we moved on.  She did not ask questions over and over about

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