[fortunecookie]

The child suffers from two factors: fetal alcohol syndrome and cocaine abuse by his natural mother and a diagnosis of Reactive Attachment Disorder. He has problems. He is under the guidance of a therapist familiar with such cases. She has not been allowed to testify. The family belongs to support groups of both RAD kids and homeschoolers. Both groups showed up (about thirty people) for this hearing.

Amazing. It borders on criminal that DCFS would have proof of the fas and RAD and prevent the therapist from testifying, the person uniquely qualified to verify the family's story and make them whole again. It seems like a homeschooling witch hunt. Just on the word of a busybody.

A teacher at my son's grade school went through a similar hell a few years ago when her youngest broke 3 bones in a short time. Her son has brittle bone disease, despite the testimony of experts appointed by the court (after her own medical doctors were prevented from testifying), they still pursued and hounded them for 3 or 4 years until declaring them not guilty.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"It borders on criminal that DCFS would have proof of the fas and RAD and prevent the therapist from testifying, the person uniquely qualified to verify the family's story and make them whole again."

Given that "Attachment Therapy" is the biggest frickin' therapy scam out there today now that "repressed memory syndrome" has been debunked, I would like to know who the therapist is before saying s/he is "uniquely qualified" in any way, shape, or form.