***I guess I'm not clear either on why you think you know more about what this girls needs than her own mother.
It does happen that other people in a kids life DO know better than mom.
I imagine that most rational people would disagree with the mom who severed her daughter's arms last week.
There are varying degrees of distress and confusion, and when parents are distressed, they don't tend to make good decisions. Once they are being 'programmed' by a facility, it gives these scared and confused parents a sense of security. False security. In that someone else will 'fix' their problem; in feeling they are 'not alone' in their fear and confusion; in believing what the program tells them.
Some parents are weak. And kids should have the option of living outside an institution if there is another adult who would take them.
How could a judge rule that the kid needed a 'program' full of strangers with austere/ experimental methods, more than a caring adult's guidance? I'd say the judge is equally scared and confused. :scared: :
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