Do we have the same standards towards mothers of drug addicts. There are hundred of children living in really poor conditions and protective services do not do nothing to help those children. Everyperson in America is innocent until proven guilty. Do protective service know for sure that these children were neglected? I think these entities (protective chidren) are taking too much power in their hands. Tomorrow they will find most of us mother who teach our chidren to love God and to be modest as guilty of sin. If these protective service have acted wrongly, they should be fired from their jobs.

As a Texan, the tough posturing of the guy in the beginning of the video make me want to throw up. "Don't Mess with Texas" is the state's slogan against litter for crying out loud! How 'bout "Don't mess with due process, Habeus Corpus, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and rights against unreasonable searches and seizures"? Investigate and punish the offenders-I think we're all for that. However, seizing 416 children from an entire community just because you think they're "wierd" when you can't find the dubious caller of the dubious allegation is insane! The guy's in freakin' Arizona! This investigation should be handled one child/family at a time and not "en masse". Heard reports-not sure if they're true- that there were 4 pregnant women/girls of the 416. Apparently not all girls are being abused. Investigate those victims/perpetrators that are. Sweeping statments of abuse by "older men" need to be justified ONE AT A TIME. Even if this "sect" (pejorative term) is anathama to you, it is not right to destroy their culture in a sweeping movement. Punish and prosecute the guilty, don't just go after the whole group on one alleged allegation. Have we all learned nothing?

If there's just one honest lawyer in Texas, "Don't mess with the children in Texas" will be something that state authorities will never be able to forget.

If Texas is really concerned about those children, they will keep them with their mothers. The children are not responsible for what they've been through, so don't penalize them for it.

Can anyone tell me if they found any Weapons of Mass Destruction on the FLDS church grounds in Texas?Sounds like a witch hunt to me.

Anyone who has lived in a big city in this country knows inner city kids have astronomical underage pregnancy rates. Why haven't authorities gone after them? The answer is clear: because that would broach racial issues rather than religious beliefs. But as long as it's open season on religion, why don't Texas authorities go after their own evangelical community, who subject their kids to ideas just as radical as those of FLDS?

"Don't mess with the children of Texas"? Well too late for that idiot!! If there were wrong things happening at this ranch, these CPS jerks just topped it! If anything, they needed to remove the MEN from this ranch and leave the mothers and their children there until a full investigation was conducted. As for this "Marleigh" lady, hopefully she isn't a mother and ever have this happen to her!

I am so glad to see folks who are able to see that the abuse is not what the cps wants us to think. If you look at the way they changed laws and how the children are now hurting you can see injustice to them.I read the kids were given crayons and did not know what they were. Such a lie as in a video of the classroom was a drawing of a tractor done with crayons. I also saw a childs wagon,so how about those lies about toys.I have never been told that no toys was child abuse. Call 'em crazy but my kids played more with the empty box.

I weep for these children and their families. I know many of their parents from bygone years. Although I am not affiliated with the FLDS church, I can most certainly vouch that these parents are truly caring, thrifty, wonderful people--excellent parents as far as I've ever seen. It is sad and heart-wrenching to think that these little ones have been torn from the loving arms of their mothers and sent off into a world that is strange to them. May God bless each one wherever they've been shipped to, and help the mothers cope with the holocaust that the state of Texas has brought against them. May this be a sober reminder to all mothers across America that if these children aren't safe in their own country, neither are ours! I gather my precious ones around me and thank God each day that I can look into their beautiful faces and see the love mirrored in their eyes. To the FLDS Parents--We're praying for you!

May YHWH bless the FLDS families who, at least, are trying to separate from the truly immoral society we have become. May HE judge the State harshly that gave us the Bush Family, Enron and other truly evil influences (true abuse to the world)and restore the children to their Mothers/families. If this does not reek of neo-nazism/fascism, I don't know what does.

It is wonderful to read all of these heart felt comments in support of FDLS. Sadly I feel that this event is a test of the American people. Like the old say goes about raising children "If you give an inch they will take a mile." I believe this holds true for government too. What will happen if government is allowed to get away with this? Who will be next? If they can take away these peoples rights can they not take away yours?? Somehow we must all get together, and visibly support the victims of this horror, or we will next

Is everybody here forgetting that the young boys are pushed out and that the very young girls are persuaded to marry some old man who has other wives, and that crazy Warren Jeffs controlled all the land, real estate and could reassign whole families to old men of his choice and that there are missing girls being taken to Canada and that there are missing mothers who object to their girls being taken? There are accounts of physical abuse and the women and children are robbed of their freedom of choice.

How empty is the feeling of these loving parents and children today
Texas and America you should be ashamed

Intense? Who writes headlines for these articles.

Howabout ignored.

Go DPS and CPS you had no choice.

FLDS posters, get a life.