... for your remarks about addiction and child neglect / abuse. Something like that is indeed, in my opinion, what happened in Grain Valley. Something like that is also, as I understand it (based on a remark posted on this list many years ago), what happened in the Northern California case of a ferret disfiguring the face of an infant who recently, as an adult, underwent plastic surgery on the Extreme Makeover TV program. Parents who are not under the influence of mind-altering chemicals attend to the cries of a child in danger. I agree with you that the infant is much safer having been removed from the home. Linda in CA [Posted in FML 6952]