Does anyone else feel they detect a recurring pattern in all this?
I’m getting the impression that something of this kind pops up in the US every decade or two – and always with much the same results. Iirc, there was a similar business in Atlanta five or six years ago, and still another in Vermont or somewhere about 20 years before _that_. Maybe others I haven’t heard of, going back to the ones in Utah and Arizona c1950.
The common denominator is that they all seem to end the same way – with the kids going home. Its as if the Child “Protection” Services in various states can’t resist the temptation to take a short cut, by just seizing _all_ the children in the place, and sorting out abused from unabused in their own time, with any who were taken unnecessarily just having to put up with it for the sake of whoever (maybe) was being – something they aren’t under the slightest obligation to do.
This tactic never seems to work, but that doesn’t stop another bunch from trying it on a few years down the line. It’s as if there’s a certain inability to learn from experience, or at least for one state to learn from the experience of another.
