April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. In connection to that, Past-president Tink Hill told us another story from his life. In the mid-1990s, he was a child abuse investigator for two years with Texas CPS. CPS is charged with protecting children and keeping families together; these goals can be in conflict. Tink told us about one of his cases that involved four children, one of whom was a baby. Because there was imminent danger to a child, he called for help for the Austin PD. Upon entering the location, he found the children with their grandmother, who looked to be abusing drugs. He made the decision to remove the children from her care, took them to the hospital for evaluation, and found a foster home in Marble Falls where he could place all four children. Driving them to that home, he continued to evaluate them so that he could testify at the removal hearing the next day. The baby’s mother took the reunification plan seriously and was able to reunite with her child within 6 months. However, the mother of the other three children also abused drugs and, in the end, Tink testified at the hearing to terminate her parental rights. This story had a happy ending as the three children were adopted by their foster parents. When Tink happened to meet the mother 8 years later, he learned that all three children were doing well. While at CPS, he investigated child abuse in all types of families of all socio-economic classes and ethnic groups. It was a very stressful job that he left after two years, which was longer than many investigators lasted.