Classist more than racist. But there are some f'd up views among administration. Someone who's now very high up once stated in a Cultural Competency training that most "dirty homes" are immigrants. Which is extra funny because New Americans have the cleanest homes!

They're too desperate to favor anyone outright. They'll give the kid to whoever can safely take them. They often don't have a choice, like in this most recent fatality: the law dictated that the child had to be given to the "non-offending parent."

Definitely not helicopter parent fanatics. It takes a kid wandering the street alone more than once to get DCYF involved for lack of supervision. If the kid is not actively dying, they'll do anything not to have to remove. The parenting bar is super low, again, because of how our laws are written. They have to be able to prove imminent risk of harm.