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No, it DOESN’T make sense to give cash to a drug-abusing parent

“There’s really nothing scarier for a parent than having the government come to your door, forcibly take your kid from you, not be sure where they’re going, not be sure when you’re going to see them again,” Max Selver told Gothamist.

Selver, the lawyer representing Meredith Trainor in a federal lawsuit filed last week against the city’s Administration for Children’s Services for removing her 11-month-old daughter from her custody, might want to rethink that statement.

After all, many parents might find what happened to Trainor prior to this removal — learning her baby is in the emergency room, having ingested cocaine while in the care of the child’s father, who lied and said the girl may have put something in her mouth at the playground — even scarier.

You would have to get through nine paragraphs and a bar graph in the Gothamist story to learn what actually happened to Trainor’s baby, i.e., what actually led ACS to seek the emergency removal.

But for the media, activists and many of the folks who work in child welfare these days, government intervention, not child abuse, is the real danger.

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