[GovernmentShrinker]

It's pretty tough to have the children "removed from their biological mother's care" when the mother has already removed herself to the other side of the Atlantic. And sending them to dad wasn't an option either, since he's already gotten himself under a restraining order regarding contact with them. And I can't help but wonder whether the 15 year old was actually caring for the younger kids, or leaving them to their own devices while she frolicked with her boyfriend.

I save my vitriolic tirades against CPS for cases where the parents are around to object to the removal. It sounds as if this "mother" still doesn't know that her kids have been split up and sent off to two different foster homes. If she cared, she'd know. I wonder how those promised daily e-mail communications between mom and eldest daughter are managing to skip over that little detail.

[tahiti]

"If she cared, she'd know."

Where is the presumption of liberty in this phras?

Where is this families "right to privacy" from state interference promised in the 9th amendment?

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Justice Goldberg, Griswold v Connecticutt

"The language and history of the Ninth Amendment reveal that the Framers of the Constitution believed that there are additional fundamental rights, protected from governmental infringement, which exist alongside those fundamental rights specifically mentioned in the first eight constitutional amendments.

The language and history of the Ninth Amendment reveal that the Framers of the Constitution believed that there are additional fundamental rights, protected from governmental infringement, which exist alongside those fundamental rights specifically mentioned in the first eight constitutional amendments.

The entire fabric of the Constitution and the purposes that clearly underlie its specific guarantees demonstrate that the rights to...raise a family are of similar order and magnitude as the fundamental rights specifically protected."

This woman has a fundamental right to raise her family as she fits.