Reply #90: I probably do, but it would take me a weekend to explain.

[Maat]

I was a social worker for 7 years, and currently I clerk for a law firm that sometimes represents the kid, sometimes the parent.

Bottom line: justifiably so, the standard of evidence to keep a child away from a parent is very high, and sometimes, people put up a great facade (that's the sentence explanation).

It does not justify, but perhaps explains.

Calling things correctly is so difficult that the Supreme Court ruled that the Dept is not liable for children who are in the custody of their parents, unless they are dependents of the court. So, tragically, a Dept is safer legally keeping the child with the parents.

Hope that in some way explained the difficulty.