skullaria wrote:

The article never mentions why it was neccessary for CPS to take the child in the first place. I'd think that should be a big part of the artile.

I am suprised more social workers aren't killed. From what I've observed, I don't believe the legal system is fair or constitutional when it comes to CPS; it often leaves parents feeling backed into a corner and desparate.

[ That may be, of course, but a friend of mine who did that work in Texas has told me some horror stories. I'm sure all those parents were enraged and felt like killing her, but then again, those fuckers locked their kids in closets and beat the shit out of them. I don't claim that CPS is fair, and I don't even have a single stat to say they're good "overall". Still, my personal experience is that the person I know prevented the torture of children.

Course, I'm halfway tempted to require parenting tests, but then i start thinking that reproduction is the second (maybe the first) most fundamental human right, blah blah blah.

Anyway, CPS may be wack, but, truth be told, if these folks resorted to murder, they're probably not good parents; romantic notions of vigilante justice against the evil government taking away their kid are probably nonsense. Not to mention, they're almost certain to lose the kid now. And their freedom. And possibly their lives.

All that being said, it would've been nice to get more than a single line about why the child was taken in the first place. It's impossible to say one way or another if this was a legitimate intervention based on the article. -k]

RE: Mom kills social worker and takes back child