Comments on: Update: “Judge determines couple with low IQs can parent both their boys” https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/01/judge-determines-couple-low-iqs-can-parent-boys/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:00:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: SPO https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/01/judge-determines-couple-low-iqs-can-parent-boys/comment-page-1/#comment-347853 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:00:21 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=68420#comment-347853 This whole “transition” thing is nonsense as well. I get that the foster parents have a deep emotional attachment to the four year old and that the child will likely benefit, but the answer is “so what?” Interference with parental custody is the deprivation of a constitutional right and has to be based on some sort of inability to care for the child–here, a judge has determined that there is no basis for the interference, thus, any additional transition (i.e., keeping their kid from them) is unconstitutional.

That’s the problem here. CPS has no consideration for the rights of the parents and seem to think that casual interference on a going-forward basis is ok. No, It’s not ok. And it ought to be prosecuted under federal civil rights laws.

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