[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

That's the key part! And a judge upheld it...

[yankeedog]

That kind of thing just makes me crazy. I was a "Ward of the State" in Mass. from the ages of 7 to 18. I've seen them up close. I saw this play itself out once: A couple who regularly took in foster children over the years became divorced. There was a foster daughter whom they had had since she was 21 days old. (Her mother had given her up for adoption in the hospital in Boston.) She was 8 years old at the time of the divorce. Well, a female social worker decided she couldn't live there any longer. She couldn't stay with the woman she thought of as her mother, because there was no longer a father living in the house. (Though he did visit.) The child was never removed, although threats were made. A lawyer was hired and all the proper paperwork got done.