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A couple in Michigan lost custody of their 7 year-old son after the father gave a Mike's Hard Lemonade to his son at a Detroit Tigers game. The father claims that he had no idea that the drink contained alcohol, because he had never heard of it and had never tried it.
My first reaction was "yeah, right," but then I read the details.
This father is a professor of archeology at the University of Michigan and doesn't watch that much television. Neither of those things are true for me, and I sit here wondering, if they were, maybe I wouldn't know what it is either (heck, even I have never had Mike's). They took the boy away from the couple, even though an examination of the kid found that he was completely fine. The police who interviewed them thinks it was an accident, and the only reason it went further is because Child Protective Services got involved. Oddly, they wouldn't even let other relatives (one a social worker herself) take custody of the boy.Luckily, after a week, the boy was returned to his home. So readers, what do you think? Overzealous officials or just doing their job?
| Officials overreacted | |
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| They were just doing their job |
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5-05-2008 @11:26PM starlitemint said... I can see how this sort of mistake could happen. When my son was about 5 or 6, we went out to a Mexican food place that we had been to many times.
I ordered him a lemonade, and they brought him a Mike's. I hadn't ever seen one before, so I had no idea there was anything wrong with it until he said it tasted gross.
I was really angry with the restaurant, but I seriously doubt it was anything but a careless mistake.
I've often wondered where CPS was when I see parents yanking their kids around or screaming at them in public, like in the middle of a grocery store, or driving on the freeway with their little kids crawling all over the backseat of the car.
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5-08-2008 @4:37PM True Epicure said... I'm sort of mindblown that CPS would take the kid away after that one incident. I've got friends who work for various CPS's in different states who CAN'T take kids away from their parents, even if the parents are regularly beating the kids. [sigh]
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7-08-2008 @12:42PM John said... This was complete over reaction. They had no reason to remove the boy to foster care based on this one isolated incident. I am from Michigan and my brother died in 1995 and his wife and the mother of his son is now a total alcoholic, drug using loser. My family and I have reported her to CPS on numerous occasions including when she was in direct violation of court orders and NOTHING was ever done to remove my nephew from her custody. Most of the people who work at CPS are incompetent and need to be fired including whomever made the decision in this case to place the child in foster care.
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