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Texas returning 12 FLDS kids to families

It looks like I fell into one of those places where good is bad and bad is good.

CPS is returning twelve children to their parents

CPS is telling the SCOT that returning the children would be placing them in immediate danger.

How can they do that and get away with it.
They are if you believe them "putting children in immediate danger" THEMSELVES.

The problem is that the child protection laws weren't written to hold a community such as FLDS to account. The laws require the Texas DFPS prove "immediate" danger to the physical health and welfare of the children that requires "urgent" removal.

Girls are taught from birth that they are to be the servants of men -- their fathers, their husbands and their prophets. They are taught to "keep sweet" and give themselves "mind, body and soul" to whichever man is their priesthood head. They learn early on that the more children they have, the greater their heavenly glory.

Boys face the prospect that soon after puberty they will be encouraged or forced out of the community, or they will grow up to be criminals, practicing polygamy in the name of God and possibly becoming sexual predators by accepting without question any child brides they are assigned.

For both boys and girls, there is no chance to dream of anything beyond what the prophet tells them. And that is INHERENTLY ABUSIVE.

The FLDS will hide behind the law as it benefits them, and ignore it when it doesn't. They scream for freedoms yet deny it to their most helpless.

Pathetic.

If the sexualization of children is the issue, any glance at youtube or myspase can be very enlightening. In addition, our child role models and advertising must be looked at.
Our society sexualizes children at a level that the very worst FLDS offender would barely fanstize about. Toy manufacturers produce dolls wearing black leather miniskirts, feather boas, and thigh-high boots and market them to 8- to 12- year-old girls (LaFerla). Clothing stores sell thongs sized for 7� to 10-year-old girls (R. Brooks; Cook & Kaiser,), some printed with slogans such as �eye candy� or �wink wink� (Cook & Kaiser,; Haynes,; Levy, 2005a; Merskin, 2004); other thongs sized for women and late adolescent girls are imprinted with characters from Dr. Seuss and the Muppets.
...Clearly if there is any evidence of a society which sexualizes children it is our own. We've met the enemy and they are us. Calling FLDS a problem is the pot calling the kettle black.
Those who post against FLDS on these pages, and fail to address our society's massive childhood sexualization issues, are simply intolerant bigots. It's obvious they don't care about the children.