"In some states, drug use of itself is not sufficient cause for a finding of abuse or neglect."
In Iowa, it is.
Governor "I Want To Raise My National Profile And Will Say Anything To Protect My Reputation" isn't going to admit there were any failures in a system that he's been overseeing and supposedly improving.
In Iowa, we've had 3 recent high profile child murders: Shelby Duis, Jetseta Gage, and Evelyn Miller. Three very different cases, three very different little girls in three different areas of the state. The one thing all three girls had in common was prior contact with DHS. So the Governor can't try to tell me that DHS is doing its job when so many of the kids "in the system" are winding up murdered.
We have a similar problem in North Carolina. DHS insists they're doing everything that could possibly be expected of human beings ... but the children still end up dead.