[CodeToad]

The mother didn’t assert her rights and basically allowed the social worker to do what she did. Under the law, all she had to do was tell the hospital that the social worker was no longer authorized access to her or her medical records. Also, if the mother had called for a Code Pink that hospital would have been locked down tight and the social worker arrested.

Social workers cannot take an baby but must get a court order.

Also, this story is missing some facts. I have never seen a social worker target a mother for no reason. They simply do not have the authority.

[Lady Lucky]

The mother didn’t assert her rights and basically allowed the social worker to do what she did. Under the law, all she had to do was tell the hospital that the social worker was no longer authorized access to her or her medical records.

Words fail me.

Social workers cannot take an baby but must get a court order.

You make that sound difficult. It is not.

I have never seen a social worker target a mother for no reason.

I have.

They simply do not have the authority.

You must live in a house of pure silk.

[Gay State Conservative]

Social workers cannot take an baby but must get a court order.

Although I'm not certain I suspect that there's at least one exception to that rule.....when it's deemed by hospital administration that a newborn is in danger of mistreatment/abuse/neglect/improper parenting they'd almost certainly be allowed to "take custody" of the child,temporarily,on an emergency basis until a court or government official takes the matter further.

As I said earlier,OB/Newborn Medicine is world unto itself with its own standards of practice *and* legal requirements.