A Nice Hand Slap for A Not So Nice Agency!

As I understand it, the Texas Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that affirmed that the Tom Green County District Court overstepped it legal bounds when it approved the Texas Department of Regulatory and Family Services(CPS)removal of over 460 children from the YFZ compound last month.

Yea! Yea! Double Yea! While I would never approve of polygamy, or 12 year olds having babies of 50 year old men, I am absolutely confident the state of Texas(CPS) took action with the wrong end of the shovel. CPS does that a lot.

If children were in danger because of the men in their midst, why were the men in their midst not taken into custody? When have you known of the "rapee" being taken into custody instead of the "raper?"

More than that, why did CPS believe it had the authority to remove every child of the compound without proof that every child was in danger? Well, that is the way CPS works. Top down,(including legislative supervision) these are the most reckless, irresponsible, autocratic, unreasonably arrogant agency in the state of Texas. I am so grateful that the top courts in Texas have slapped the hands of rubber stamping judges and reckless authority that separates families on the flimsiest of accusations.

Count me as one who has been forced to deal with CPS (as any professional in Texas is required to do) and does so holding his nose loathing every moment. The drama that has played out on the YFZ Ranch is just an example of their barging in, trampling the Bill of Rights, ordering families into counseling(yet to be proven they need) all the while leaving this family in crisis totally out of reach with CPS except by phone . If one has the misfortune of talking to some snippy caseworker, they are treated like they are both stupid and a criminal just waiting for their conviction and sentence. All the while, their children are pushed into overcrowded foster care homes, a few of which are worse than the homes they left--again thanks to CPS.

I hope and pray this serves as a wake up call to everyone who has anything to do with the oversight of CPS. This is another black eye that Texas does not need--and it is all because Texas wants to take the cheap way when dealing with families and the poor.

Well, this is what cheap gets!