Significant Pursuit by Renaissance Guy

     If a state official said that she had no concern about your parenting skills and that she had no evidence that absue or neglect had occurred, then how would you feel if you were ordered to take parenting classes, among other things, before you could have custody of your children restored?  I’d be furious.  Check out this excerpt from an article in the Dallas Observer:

     Ticer asked Alison Albrecht, a CPS caseworker assigned to the Steed case, if she had seen Steed interact with her children. Albrecht said she had and that neither she nor any of the other caseworkers assigned to the family had any concerns about Steed’s parenting skills.

     “Then why do you have parenting skills in this plan when there’s no concern about parenting skills?” Ticer asked.

     Albrecht said that one plan had been drafted for every family living on the YFZ Ranch and that neither Steed nor her children had been consulted prior to formulating the plan.

     “Tell the court what evidence there is for this family that abuse or neglect occurred,” Ticer asked Albrecht.

     Albrecht said she had none and agreed that typical CPS protocol calls for gathering evidence first and then tailoring service plans to specific allegations of abuse and neglect.

     “These children don’t show any signs of neglect or abuse,” Ticer said. “What it amounts to, judge, is they live at the wrong address.”

     No concern about Mrs. Steed’s parenting skills and no signs of abuse or neglect.  Then why can’t this woman have her children back?