This is nothing more than the goon squad sending a message to parents saying "WE RUN THE SHOW."
Perhaps it is an indication that the regulations by which the child services administration in MI operates are dictated by the lowest common denominator of child services cases in MI - in other words, the regulations were written with an unmarried teen crackhead's child in mind, not a tenured archaeology professor's child.
“This is nothing more than the goon squad sending a message to parents saying “WE RUN THE SHOW.” “
It’s not that. It’s rule-obsessed bureaucrats terrified of using common sense and independent judgement. I worked for this sort years ago and know exactly how they operate. If there isn’t a circle in Hell reserved for them then there is something very wrong with the world.
The child is very lucky one of the fools in charge didn’t have a rule book that was misprinted, because if it said to feed the child into a wood chipper they would have tried to do it.