Letters: Breaking families apart
Re “County wins neglect case over car seat,” July 6
I am appalled at the misguided ruling of the California Supreme Court to allow social workers to place children in foster care after a car accident in which a sibling died as a result of not being restrained by a car seat or seat belt.
The measures taken by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services have nothing to do with child welfare or protection. This is state-sanctioned child abuse with life-altering consequences. Removing a child from parents who have no history of neglect or abuse and placing them in foster care compounds their tragedy.
Caseworkers put children at greater risk by seizing them from parents who love and fight for them, only to place them in the care of strangers.
Stella Resnick
Beverly Hills
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