Couple sues over "overzealous" protection of newborn: OK, I have family who work in protective services, and I so know how stressed and overextended these agencies are. But knowing that only makes me wonder how anyone could justify the resources spent on this case, in which a mother who had a homebirth called a hospital for help when her newborn's appetite seemed low. Instead of help, she got a visit from police escorted by an ambulance; they'd been told the couple hadn't been feeding ANY of their eight children! They were more or less forced to take the baby to the hospital, where he was pronounced happy and healthy, and the social workers STILL tried to take the baby away! There are so many kids in real danger who time and again don't get the help they need, and still the social service agencies seem to prefer to focus on innocent families with nothing wrong--in this case just because a hospital nurse doesn't approve of homebirths. Amazing.
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