Familienpolitik

CNN.com reports that today Judge Barbara Walther signed an order allowing all of the children seized from the Yearning For Zion ranch to be released to their parents. The order requires:

The Department of Family and Protective Services will have the right to make unannounced visits to check on the children’s medical and psychological well-being.
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I’ve been following this issue closely since it first was reported. You can see a copy of the original affidavit here. Now the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that Child Protective Services had no right to remove the children from the YFZ ranch, upholding a lower court’s ruling. This CNN.com article goes [...]

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Today a Texas appeals court ruled that the state had not proven that the children on the Yearning for Zion Ranch outside of Eldorado were in “imminent danger” before they were removed.  This CNN.com article has the story.  Curiously, the ruling did not mean that the children would be returned to their parents.
Instead, the judges [...]

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As I posted here, more than 500 women and children left or were removed from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas, April 3. Now, because many of the children have refused to tell authorities their or their parents’ names and lied about their [...]

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Last week 555 women and children were removed from the YFZ Ranch outside of Eldorado, Texas after investigators responding to a call from a 16 year old mother found numerous girls either pregnant or already mothers of infants on the ranch, owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The [...]

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