So he can go tell the court she's an unfit parent and she'll lose custody of her kids? If anything doing a story like this is really risky for her, CPS could argue she's not capable and make things really different.

People get really messed up and vindictive when it comes to child support.

I'm 100% sure she's evaluated her options and child support just isn't one of them.

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nradov 13 hours ago | parent [-]

No, you can't be "100% sure" of anything because the article omitted key facts. That's my point. You're making unwarranted assumptions about people you don't even know.

Litigants say a lot of things in family court. So what. Judges don't automatically believe such claims. An allegation of being an unfit parent doesn't mean loss of custody so quit exaggerating. While you can find rare stories of CPS employees and judges who abused their authority, the reality is that CPS makes every effort to keep families together and only take children away from parents in extreme cases of abuse or neglect.

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		I'm just going to assume that you don't have any personal firsthand experience with the system . I'm going to trust the judgment of the struggling single mother, there's probably a good reason she's not collecting child support right now. This website has a tendency of attracting upper middle class people, and the vast majority of you have just world theory. You think things are much more fair than they really are. I will agree that this is irresponsible journalism, unless they paid her a significant amount of money, the potential downsides of exposing her situation outweigh any benefits. A social worker can easily make a case for sending the kids to foster care from an article like this. Even just getting CPS to leave her alone might be a difficult process