Should keeping kids with parents be DYFS' top goal?

A report issued by Legal Services of New Jersey - featured in a front-page article in the Press Tuesday - urged the state Division of Youth & Family Services to make it a key point to refocus its efforts to keep children with their parents. Should that really be the key point? Shouldn't the safety and well-being of the children be the key point, with helping parents clean up their act and returning the children when the home is deemed stable and secure a secondary goal?

It seems to me that most of the criticism DYFS has received over the last few years has been for NOT intervening rather than for being too intrusive. The Legal Services report points to the psychological harm a child suffers when taken from parents, but some of the residences they are living in aren't truly a "home." Of course removing a child from parental custody is devastating, but that's often the only life the child knows. Isn't getting them out of a bad situation - likely a lifestyle they'll adopt as adults if left unchecked, if they survive - the top priority?