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CPS raid on Houston's underage moms would dwarf Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup

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Here are a few disparate items to chew on this morning:Get ready for the CPS raid on HoustonLast year Texas' CPS accompanied by dozens of armed police raided the YFZ Ranch and seized more than 400 children on the sole basis that some of the children had allegedly been married and impregnated as young as 14 (a practice that was legal in Texas with parental consent until 2005). Much to-do was made about how the mere presence of underage pregnant kids necessitated a full-blown military response and mass-seizure of every child within arms-reach. How much more justified, then, would the state be to raid the City of Houston, which leads the nation in the number of pregnancies under age 15? And just as happened at Eldorado, shouldn't the state seize everyone else's kids, too, because they live in a community that tolerates such behavior? If that approach was good enough in the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup, after all ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).