On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:10:22 GMT, Sharon Coyne -> Sean Rima wrote:

>   >> I know this is rare, but still one time too many, but there was a
>   >> case quite a few years back where they gave custody of a little girl
>   >> to the father because the mother was a drug addict. That doesn't
>   >> sound bad on the surface except they *forgot* to check the father
>   >> out before they agreed to this. It was on record that he was an
>   >> abuser and just a few weeks before held his new girlfriend and her
>   >> kids hostage for a few hours while the police talked him out of the
>   >> home. Of course, the Children's Youth Service blamed the police for
>   >> not telling them, which they didn't know they had to because they
>   >> didn't know he was getting custody of the child and the police
>   >> blamed CYS for not contacting them first. The worst part is that the
>   >> father killed the child the same day she was handed over to him. She
>   >> might have been better off with the addict mother in this case, or
>   >> at least with other relatives.
>   >>
>   >> There definitely needs to be more investigation when a child is
>   >> going to be turned over to one parent or the other.
>
>   SR> I have seen this sort of thing happening in England and it is sad
>   SR> because the details were so apartent
>
> I am sorta against the idea of keeping a family together when it will be the
> kids who suffer from it. Yes, I believe that some people can change their
> abusive behavior, but as a rule it doesn't happen. In this country, it is the
> goal of the government that families stay together no matter what the
> situation.
>
> I heard too that they want to make it hard to get a divorce again
> too. I'm glad I already got mine.
>

They are talking about making divorce harder to get in the UK as well which
is sad because it doesn't achieve anything, just makes the pain even worse.

Sean

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