Kidjacked: The Corruption of Child Protective Services Each of the 50 states has an agency responsible for protecting children. In Los Angeles, California, this agency is known as DCFS (Department of Children and Families Services). The Los Angeles Department of Family Services has recently made the news after a class action law suites ranging in the millions has left locals wondering whether or not DCFS is actually protecting the children they take into their custody. With
the different values and beliefs. Every family has certain values and beliefs, none of which are the same and by exploring the most common ones we may help people identify values of personal significance. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57, that “the demographic changes of the past century make it difficult to speak of an average American family.” ( Day O’Connor Id. at 63.) Due to the mainstream culture that America supplies, ‘The Nuclear Family’