Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Rather like your current argument.

The point is not so much that she may or may not be an unfit mother - it is that other manifestly worse parents get to keep their kids.

I also know that from people who have been on the educator's side of the table. Plus - the child will go into care, which is unlikely to be better unless the mother is genuinely abusive.
Yes, the main problem with child services is that too many abusive parents get to keep on abusing their kids.

How that is an argument in favour of letting yet another abusive parent continue abusing kids, is quite beyond me.

The case as I see it: the child services believe the mother is unfit, and that the children will be damaged should they reside with her in her current situation. So, they have decided to intervene. That decision is not one taken lightly, and I have no reason to second-guess them when they finally intervene. The rubbish about snatching kids from political opponents is something I disregard completely as utter nonsense. Child services do not work that way, and you have to be quite conspiratorial to believe it works that way. The mother is making desperate accusations, and as there is no evidence at all, it should be disregarded.