Aussie bloggers to Judge Walther: Grow up!

Great comments at Hoyden About Town on the absurd excess and counter-logic of Texas CPS and Judge Barbara “Guillotine” Walther in the FLDS case:

To Judge Walther: working four or six or eight hours a day five days a week before being reunited with your infant and being able to play and cuddle and breastfeed and sleep together in your own home for the other 16 hours is not the same as being dislocated from your family and then having your child snatched away as well. Being in childcare or in the care of friends and family for four or six or eight hours a day five days a week before being reunited with your mother to play and cuddle and breastfeed and sleep together in your own home is not the same as being plunged into a sea of complete strangers and then having your mother removed from you as well.

How many attachment issues is this system needlessly creating? Shouldn’t it be a cornerstone tenet of foster caring that family members be placed together where possible, and mother-young child pairs always? Why did they have to fight for this in court, and why is the age limit two?

Being under 18 does not make a mother any less a mother. Snatching wanted, loved children away from mothers isn’t going to magically reinstate their innocent girlhoods.

We need to stop punishing girls and women, and their children, for reporting abuse and rape. This is one part of a much larger pattern of abuse and re-victimisation by the systems that are supposed to protect us. . . .

More at Hoyden About Town.