Children Under The Child Protective Service, One Year On: Where Are They Now?

*Note: This is an amended version of a video that was published earlier.
In late 2019, CNA was given unprecedented access to Singapore’s Child Protective Service and some of its clients. A year on, we follow up with ‘Mei’, an abusive mother whose daughter was removed from her care; and ‘Lyn’, who had her two sons placed in foster care when their home was deemed unsuitable for children.
How have their lives changed since? And have the children since been returned to their parents?
Since the series Inside the Child Protective Service aired in early 2020, Mei’s daughter ‘Anne’ has moved from foster care to live with her father. Rebuilding her troubled relationship with her mother has been more difficult.
As for Lyn, she and her husband have since had a third child, who has been allowed to remain in their care, following monitoring and their adherence to a safety plan. Their sons however, are still not ready to be returned to their care.
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[@MP-cv6if]

People, if you have kids, make sure you can really be a mother or father

[@danger26102]

How about for a few weeks? No? lol

[@rubaiyatdunno482]

@@danger26102 be a foster parent

[@user-cn8ip5ym3j]

whats the alternative: the u.s.a has banned abortions. being born into dysfunction is a life long horror story and dis service to the person born and to the person bearing the child. We are an advanced civilization; we should be able to engage in recreational sex apart from procreation. this means actively installing an inability to procreate that can be reversed upon the well thought out and planned decision to procreate. so that may mean altering and un altering testes. that may mean tieing the tubes of a female or some other alteration of the female procreation system. rubbers are not a solution. its just another problem to overcome. there should be card Id set up for regular check ups against std's and that certifies an inability to procreate. and whether that inability is reversible. parents should be held responsible to make sure their children are vaxinated against unwanted procreation. because recreational sex will happen and frequently. not going to stop that with all your laws and all your banning. so next step is stop the ability and make that reversible.

[@bethroesch2156]

Thank you for the update. This was such a good series. It can be an ongoing process to repair this type of damage but it can be overcome with a lot of support and some compassion for the whole family

[@jlane2236]

What about the family with the angry father who kept throwing tantrums and threatening CPS officers? The one they took the newborn from?

[@frogsareleaping]

Thank you CNA for the update and for this series that shone light in a sector that the public knew little of.

[@Tammissa]

Personally I believe that there are bad parents. Not all, many have difficult situations but a certain percentage of people should just not have children.

[@JGTay-ne8fr]

Yes. Absolutely. I was so impressed by that positivity until the part "our belief is there are no bad parents...." That's a wrong belief. There are good and bad people in the world and just by becoming a parent doesn't make a person good automatically. It's creepy that CPS is so naive.

[@Dan_Nebunaticul]

@@JGTay-ne8fr - CPS is danger !

[@rubaiyatdunno482]

Ah yes it's the abusive ones with the most children

[@johannazulkifli4]

Salute to you Singaporean officers...hands down...amazing professional people...

[@CanYouRememberWhen]

I'm impressed with the work you do, so much better than some other countries.

[@RonLarhz]

People should be regulated before allowed to have kids.
Cb lah "no bad parents". Tell that to the boy who died from parents abuse.
What an apologetic.

[@ramonfalcatan8245]

please help my Lord 💞🙏

[@ybbolb]

Mei sounds like she is from VN.

[@godsbelovedchild1810]

Yes she's a Vietnamese

[@jadewu111]

I sounds like her “name” is mother in Vietnamese since I am Vietnamese as well

[@kinokunia]

Much improvement in the English department

[@AnonymousZzz5]

Not all parents deserve to have kid

[@user-cn8ip5ym3j]

right away. i see the problems. you should never separate children form their families.. but only extreme cases can you consider it. but you should put programs in place where you can build rehabilitation communities where they can live in oversight until they are capable to live without oversight. you are destroying the natural bond a child needs through their whole life.. some need it more than others to varying degrees. so thats part of the problem i can readily see in these cps programs. the other problem is their is an impulse control issue and thinking errors in the woman. she gets angry and cant work herself back out of that. it colors her perception into a zero sum situation where she then wants to die. but she is going to punish the world on her way out by killing the child with her self. she needs to be educated into impulse control techniques and a re evaluation of her thinking process's. she needs to learn healthier coping mechanisms and learn new skills to teach her to overcome the cognition blocks. its the ignorant that resort quickly to violence. because they dont know any other way. this go's for the program administrators and their new victims. learn a better way to rehabilitate and build better families and stronger communities.

[@mabellee424]

This woman is a Vietnamese.

[@lotrhpnmask]

oh there is definitely bad parents! mine being one. you cant fix a narc crazy heartless gaslighting nutcase.

[@DavidLee-tn3mo]

There are people who should never be parents unfortunately!…least when they keep reproducing. Ever heard of contraceptives

[@ramonfalcatan8245]

please help my Lord 💞🙏