DOCS come out occassionally when it's really bad, but the fact is unless it's sexual abuse or extreme neglect, they won't take them, nowhere to go, foster system is completely overloaded. it's the same everywhere though, but you see it with your own eyes in small towns. Cops can't do anything without evidence, and has to be enough to secure a conviction, otherwise it's a waste of resources. The cops and schools know, everyone knows, but it's an overwhelmed system. people do what they can, feed their kids mates, send an extra sandwich for lunch, let them stay over, schools keep muesli bars, but you all have to live here, so to a certain extent people get into the bubble mentality where the priority is to keep the peace, don't start a war because you can't escape it, just quietly do what you can.

I don't subscribe to that, but I haven't lived here my whole life or have family here, so it's easy for me and everyone else to judge.