Suspecting Child Abuse

As you may have surmised, the Department of Family and Protective Services Childcare Licensing Division operates in an adversarial role with daycare operators. Daycare operators are well aware that any contact with Childcare Licensing could be detrimental. Because many Childcare Licensing representatives, and apparently Department of Family and Protective Services District Directors, are prone to falsifying write-ups any daycare operator making contact with Childcare Licensing invites trouble.

One must consider the reasons as to why children's daycares exist before understanding how the State of Texas Childcare Licensing Division is detrimental to the safety and well-being of children in Texas.  Children's daycares exist to allow parents the ability to earn income or advance their education to better support their families by allowing them to leave their children with trained individuals who will care for their children. Another purpose for daycares, and one not realized by Adrienne Driggers the Southwest District Director, is that daycares allow the State to oversee the care of a concentrated amount of children.

There is no greater thing in the world than to be able to help children and the community. When childcare licensing has proven themselves to be hostile towards daycare operators the focus of a daycares operations become more a matter of self preservation. So if a daycare suspects a child is being abused it is far more likely for a daycare to dis-enroll the child with the hope that someone else will solve the problem rather than risk giving childcare licensing the opportunity to harm the daycare. It was in San Antonio where I spoke with several daycare operators that expressed this concern. I was naïve at that time. I didn't realize how animalistic Childcare Licensing Representatives and their District Director were. Any contact with Childcare Licensing is a gamble.

When a daycare is closed because a District Director or Childcare Licensing Representative is using their power to settle a score those children that were once being cared for in a concentrated facility are now scattered into the community to be cared for by people who are neither trained nor have the oversight of the State of Texas. Several things can happen as a result: children could get molested, seriously injured or even killed.