Texas Raids Prompt Renewed Calls for CPS Reform

Texas Raids Prompt Renewed Calls for CPS Reform

The Texas Supreme Court declared last week that the state's Department of Family Protective Services (CPS) acted illegally in rounding up hundreds of mothers and children from a suspected polygamist sect. Meanwhile, the anonymous phone call that led to the raid has been traced to a troubled woman in Colorado with multiple personalities and a history of making false calls. That woman has since been arrested.

But while national attention has focused on the bizarre events in Texas, attorneys across the nation insist that abuses of power by many states' child protective services - referred to collectively as CPS - are all too common, and little has been done by legislators to address them.
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Who abused the children?

Have we Americans become so afraid and so protective that we are willing to let government agencies run roughshod over anyone or any group in the name of security or protecting children?

Have we become so afraid that those who are different from us need to be chastised or incarcerated? What happened to the American idea of individualism?
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Trauma of family separations may linger for FLDS children

More than a half century after Arizona separated polygamous families from their fathers for more than two years, women still weep when they recall childhood memories of the time.