The when the news is bad, don’t they? More than 4000 GIs dead in Iraq, and now 462 minors in foster care after that FLDS raid in Eldorado. That’s right — CPS determined today that among the more than 100 mothers who had stayed with their young children, at least 25 are themselves minors.

New York Times

Testifying Friday in the case of 416 children taken from a polygamous compound, an investigator from the state’s child protection agency said there was evidence that 20 or more under-age girls had given birth as a result of sexual contact with older men.

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“If you can establish a pattern that occurs in just about every family, then you begin to say, maybe this is something that can be addressed wholesale,” she said referring to under-age marriages. Under Texas law, girls under 16 may not be married, even with the consent of parents.

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The Defence: “Many, many families out there are being tarred with the alleged problems of a few families,” he said. “Every family has to be considered individually. This is not fair to families who don’t have issues.”