Powerful commentary.
As I started reading it , it immediately reminded of me of several people that firmly believe that my daughter should be removed from my custody because her father and I are unfit parents. And then I saw this:
Hollywood has a role. If it's irresponsible to show adults smoking, then surely people of judgment would recognize the worse harm caused by depicting children as toys for adults.
Yes, that it why these people believe it is far better for her to be in state custody - her parents smoke.
My husband has a good job, we have a roof over our heads, food on the table, we are not alcoholics or drug addicts, we are not abusive and we are married and were married before we chose to become parents.
Any thinking person who looks at the numbers in this article will think twice about the removal of children from married two-parent families for frivolous reasons. The "state" has a pretty poor track record for being parents.