Choose or Lose

The state of Texas is apparently preparing to tell FLDS mothers who were separated from their children in the recent raid on the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, Texas, that assuring the safety of their children is a condition of having those children returned to them, which apparently involves distancing with the polygamist practices of their own chosen faith.

The Children of Eldorado

The state of Texas has now removed 401 children, and over a hundred adult women, from the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas, and been granted temporary legal custody of several of them, on grounds of possible abuse and neglect, or threat of the same. According to a news conference just held by the state authorities, the adult women came of their own volition and wanted to leave.

Finding foster homes to take and house all of them is a logistic nightmare for a state already stretched to its limits in the foster care system.