Chez Chesler

Texas Child Protective Services removed all the children from those who practiced a certain religion this spring, because there was "a pervasive belief that children having children was what they were supposed to do". (I'm sure there were plenty of comments in the blogosphere over the past couple of months as CPS kept refusing to return the children to their parents, even after being ordered to do so by several courts, and taking much longer than the original raid, and much longer than it takes to reunite children and parents when school lets out, once they complied.) It was never clear if the teen pregnancy rate at the Yearning for Zion ranch was much different from that in the rest of Texas. In any case, it turns out that a similar belief was pervasive in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where 17 girls in a 1200-student high school that serves a city of thirty thousand people are pregnant. We've yet to see if DSS will act against the entire community.

Labels: DSS, Gloucester, YFZ