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[threeplusfire]

The Case of Marie and Her Sons is an interesting article on child welfare and removing children permanently from the care of parents because of abuse.

It wasn’t only the acute awareness that a child could be killed if you made the wrong decision — and that it could be you being named on the local TV news...It was also the extreme authority, the burden of holding it, of wielding it, the prerogative to enter a family’s home and split it apart.

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[mielikki.livejournal.com]

I'm sure my job skews my viewpoint, but I'd've like to have heard more details from the people who decided to adopt out the kids; you got a lot of glurgy pictures of how much mom cares and how much she insisted that she had turned her life around. The 'other side' had very definite reasons for doing what they did; it would have been nice to see that side in as much detail.