I have been following the FLDS case pretty closely. I think that the men should be taken away….and dealt with…..my opinion…but, WHAT THE HELL IS TEXAS DOING???

Let’s just say by CHANCE…there was family that was Catholic and they got a call from a 16 year old girl that said she was being abused by her father and other MEN….the state would go in and take the MEN out of the house, issue a restraining order of some sort……and PROTECT the children and mother.

I realize that this IS different and there is some MAJOR responsibility that the mother has to talk in all of this, but from ALL reports, the mothers have not physically abused the children sexually…. The neglect of not reporting the abuse is not excusable and there needs to be SOMETHING that happens….but, I have a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR problem with these children being taken out of their homes….and FURTHERMORE…

THERE IS NO REASON TO TAKE BABIES AWAY FROM THEIR MOTHERS IF THE MEN WHO ARE ABUSING THEM ARE NOT IN THE PICTURE!!

I realize that everyone is not going to agree with me.  BUT MY GOD!!! I just read that a woman who was nursing a 13 month old was separated from her baby. 13 months old! The state of Texas decided that 12 months is that is acceptable for nursing to cease! These people are VERY different from us. They nurse 3-4 times longer due to cultural and economic reasons! MY GOD! There are 61 babies under 3 years old now abruptly taken from their mother’s breasts.

I feel so strongly about this ….primarily because of baby Rowen. I knew about Emily being pregnant before she was even showing…and waited each day for his birth.  Then saw him grow and grow and grow….as a happy and perfect little person….with only one thing for food….Emily’s breast milk. These children are surviving because of their mother’s milk….and now they are going to place them in a different environment, stress their bodies and hearts to great lengths…..and now…..they are going to lose important body weight/mass due to the state of Texas’ inability to see the OBVIOUS needs of the children because of bureaucracy.

This is my opinion…..I just can’t stand that babies are being ripped from their mothers’ arms. I don’t know that I have the solution for this ENORMOUS problem. I pray for those TRYING to make such difficult decisions….and I pray that SOMEONE  realizes that a 13 month old baby is 100% too young to abruptly stop breast feeding.

Where do you guys stand on all of this?  Tell me…..even if you completely disagree…..tell me.

How can this crap happen in our world?? HOW?

Anne

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