CPS just can't let go

I was glad to learn that reunions between the FLDS polygamists and their children are underway.

I was peeved to learn that some sibling groups were so split up in the initial sweep that their parents are having to travel all over H's Half Acre to round them all up.

One family with five children had to pick one of them up near San Antonio before going on down to Corpus Christi for another one or two and then all the way back up to Amarillo for the rest.

Texas is a big state and such travel is nothing short of torturous.

CPS was quick to seize these children, but I can't find mention of where the agency is helping the parents to get them back. Where are the buses that carried them away? Why does the state make the parents bear the expense and extreme inconvenience associated with reuniting their families?

Maybe the state is trying to save funds to pay for the lawsuits that are sure to come in the wake of this incredible debacle.

I was also annoyed to learn that the families will be required to take parenting classes through CPS.

Let's see. You've got mothers who have never fed their kids junk or processed convenience foods, instead baking their bread and growing much of their produce themselves. Many of these mothers manage to keep more than three or four children clean, fed, and home educated. (Early on attorneys for the state admitted the FLDS kids might have trouble transitioning to public schools because their years of homeschooling likely put them ahead academically!) The children received religious instruction. None of the children seized in the initial raid 'fessed up to or showed physical evidence of abuse.

But their mothers need parenting classes???????

CPS couldn't turn the screws one way, so it's turning them another.

Harrassment can manifest in the most subtle of ways, and when it comes to prolonging the agony, CPS is one of the best.