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    TE> However, I think the issue is not with Pennsylvania alone. CPS and   
    TE> family   courts on the whole world tend to get things wrong about half   
    TE> of the time,   meaning you could just as well replace all those   
    TE> "experts" on child   welfare with a monkey rolling a dice.   
      
   Tobias, thanks for your reply. You get it. I see it the same way. The family   
   court system is extremely flawed. Maybe their logic made sense hundreds of   
   years ago, but times have changed and now children need their fathers.   
      
    TE> with my   first and only wife, and still CPS took one child away from me.   
      
   I'm sorry that this happened to you and to your child. (And of course it   
   affects the entire family.)   
      
    TE> The child in question is a daughter who reached "those years" of turning   
    TE> into a woman exactly when the Covid lockdowns kicked in and became     
      
   This scenario has similarities to mine. My son is 16 and he has major   
   depressive disorder. At the most recent court hearing, his grandmother told   
   the judge "He has threatened to kill himself if he's forced to see his   
   father," and the judge looked at me and said "With that being the case, do you   
   still want to proceed with your petition for custody?"   
      
   The judge seems to think that the child is in charge. With that logic, the   
   child can get anything he wants by threatening to kill himself. Maybe he wants   
   a helicopter and a million dollars, well, I guess we know how he can obtain   
   those things too! :)   
      
    TE> intervention. We hope and pray she sobers up when she   grows older and   
    TE> realizes one day we are still there to provide true love   and better   
    TE> support than the governmant can ever provide.   
      
   That's a good point! Maybe there's a political motivation behind all this.   
   Maybe the courts want children to depend on the government, so that the   
   government can exert more control over them throughout their lives.   
      
   I hope that you get reunited with your daughter some day! Fathers are just as   
   important as mothers, and maybe even more important than mothers during the   
   teen years.   
      
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