Obviously we can't always know what happens 'behind the scenes' of a child protection referral, but if you've been in the situation where you contacted social services or the NSPCC because you were worried about children, do you think it helped those kids? Did anything change?
I'm feeling quite demoralised because over the course of years I have made multiple calls/emails about a pair of sisters in my wider family who have been subjected to emotional abuse, and nothing has changed. They're still living with their insane, tyrannical father and their mum who doesn't protect them from being screamed at constantly and called cunts and fucking little bitches and evil and losers by him.
I've spoken to SS, NSPCC, their primary and secondary schools. So far as I can tell, nobody has intervened to help. I've spent years trying to empower the mum to leave with the kids but she always goes back because she'd rather live in a 'nice' house than 'slum it' as a single parent.
Is this just the state of overstretched child protection now? That it's ok to grow up being called a stupid cunt by your dad everyday and to be told that when he kills himself it will be your fault (children hearing this since they learnt to talk) because there aren't the resources to count that deplorable, sustained abuse as actionable? That it's ok to go completely unprotected by your other parent so long as no physical violence is occuring?
It makes me so sad.