Elise Patkotak, thanks for a very illuminating article.  Families who need OCS help usually have very complex problems: drug abuse and addiction, child neglect, mental illness, domestic violence.  Unfortunately, by the time OCS gets there, it's often too late to keep the families together and too late for the traumatized children.  What we are not addressing in our society is why we are allowing people to have children they cannot support or care for, that we all end up paying for in the end.