Making Children Wards of The State: Helpful or Harmful?

The Department of Children and Family Services is supposedly designed to insure the welfare of children by recognizing when the homes they live in are unsafe or unhealthy and removing children from uhealthy enviornments when necessary. This requires that Foster Care be available in the form of guardians who are paid a monthly rate to provide a stable home and maintenance for the child. But often DCFS is found lacking in its ability to truly help families with severe problems. Either the help comes too late, and a child is found dead due to neglect or abuse, or as in the case of Dorothy Austin, DCFS steps in and illegally takes a child out of the home who was neither abused nor neglected, and simply will not release the child from State custody because of government beaurocracy. Once the government makes a mistake, it appears that government employees take steps to cover the mistake in order to avoid being fired or facing a lawsuit. In such cases, it becomes the government that is abusive. How does a parent fight back and win, in order to regain parental rights of custody over a child that is in the System as a Ward of the State?