<p>Bea Kapinski, a longtime case worker for Child Protective Services in Arizona, reveals a behind-the-scenes look at fighting for children in this account that urges reform.</p>

<p>One of her first cases was an about-to-be homeless woman who called in a CPS report on herself because she didnt know what else to do.</p>

<p>Linda and her six children met the author in an undesirable part of Phoenix at the Motel 6 where they were staying. They were on their last paid night at the motel. </p>

<p>Can you please do something? Linda pleaded.</p>

<p>Nothing with CPS was ever easy: not the work, not the people, not the policies, not the outcomes. </p>

<p>In this memoir, the author shares her most memorable and haunting casesmany of which stemmed from families abusing alcohol and/or drugs, living in poverty, and coping with mental illness.</p>

<p>While we must keep CPS workers accountable when something goes wrong, she argues that we need to make it harder for drug-addicted parents to continue having children and gaming the system.</p>

<p>Join the author as she reveals the challenging, frustrating, and sometimes rewarding career of being a case manager dedicated to helping families in Child Protective Services.</p>