[Tex-Con-Man]

As a society, when it comes to child protective services, we only have but one of two choices;
Whether to error on the side of being overly cautious and risk separating kids from decent parents...
Or error on the side of being too lenient, knowing there are times when a child will come to harm at the hand of their own parent.

The point being, when it comes to messy domestic disputes, errors are inevitable, we just have to choose which one we can live with.

As a small, less intrusive government conservative, I want the bar to be very high before the state can take away someones own child.

[livius]

Maybe we should worry about errors the child can live with.

If a child is taken away and there’s no problem, at some point the parent will be able to regain that child. But if the child is not taken away and there’s a problem, that child will have no chance.

I have a family member who works with abused children and I can’t tell you how ofent the court has sent back children to the abusive biological parent for “family reunification” or because it will make said parent feel better about him or herself...and the child ends up dead or hideously abused.

We should err on the side of the defenseless child. Adults can work it out later.

There is no way these kids should have been sent to visit their father at any time, even supervised (as this was supposed to be).