Mother Loses Custody of Teen For Refusing to Give Her Antipsychotics.

"A Detroit mother lost custody of her daughter after refusing to give her antipsychotic medications, which officials say the teen may not need in the first place. Her mother, Maryanne Godboldo, was accused of medical neglect when her 13-year-old daughter, Ariana, began to have erratic symptoms following a series of vaccinations, and was given an antipsychotic drug by a center for at-risk youth. Godboldo felt that the drug, however, made her daughter worse, and began looking for holistic treatments instead. Child Protective Services then tried to remove Ariana from her home, resulting in a "stand-off" with a police SWAT team during which Godboldo reportedly fired a gun."


"Ariana remains in protective care, despite the fact that the judge says she would like to have her discharged to a family member."

http://www.care2.com/causes/health-p...ntipsychotics/

This high lights the problem of the right of the family to protect its members versus the risk of children in risk families versus and the right (or might? duty?) of the state to interfere.

A SWAT team to take away a child???

Over medication??

We all want children to be protected, and we all want to protect our children.

If the state come in and take them without cause, there is virtually nothing you can do to protect them! The social servervices do not give back what they take, and at the same time, the whole system cannot not garantee their saftey, as is so often shown. What do you do?

There are times when children have to be taken away, surely, but how to determine that?

How much power should the state have over parents? What is the balance? Do the social services have too much power?