Foster parent here and guess how many times I wanted to punch a person from the system in the face when they said "the parental bond is the most important thing" to explain away unfathomably shitty parenting.
I work in mental health and have a fair bit of professional experience with parents and the CPS system in my state. What a fucking shit show. With both CPS workers and foster parents, it seems like a 50/50 toss up whether you get a good one or a bad one. Having a system for this sort of thing is obviously better than not having one, but damn do we need to improve upon ours.
Sadly, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. CPS mostly deals with poorer families and no one gives a shit about them.
I gotta think that part of the problem is even finding someone who would want to be a CPS worker in the first place, considering the kind of work it is and the kind of situations they deal with.
Put another way, It's like how prison guards tend to be of low quality - no one decent wants the job.
This general area of Oklahoma has been absolutely insane lately - 4 guys got murdered and chopped up in Okmulgee, there was the Henryetta 7-person murder-suicide, and now this, all within about an hour of each other.