One more cost of our ever-more-instrusive State
Dad takes seven-year-old son to a ballgame. Dad--he's a U. of Michigan professor who doesn't watch much TV--buys son "hard lemonade," not knowing that it has alcohol.
Policeman sends son to the hospital, and Dad (and his wife) lose custody of son for 48 hours.
It wasn't anybody's fault, you see. Everybody was just following "protocol".
The tragic part of this is Detroit CPS is so overburdened by real cases that the resources wasted on this are very high even though it was only 48 hours.
Posted by: Ted Craig | April 29, 2008 at 09:15 AM
I'm beginning to think that in a contest for "Dumbest State Children's Services" the result would be a 50-way tie.
Posted by: JorgXMcKie | April 29, 2008 at 09:36 AM
It is really funny that they sent the kid to the hospital... I mean, a doctor recommended that?
Also, what took 48 hours?
Posted by: Andrew | April 30, 2008 at 02:14 PM