3 Children removed from NJ parents

[kandrathe]

Except that this situation is far more similar to "Sending your kids to play on your roof", rather then the hazards of making a living in any of your listed occupations. What you have is a failure to distinguish between self-destructive behavior and employment. (Society's failure to differentiate certain forms of employment from self-destructive behavior is another story altogether)

To continue the rooftop analogy, if you had a very good reason to send your kids up on your roof, Child Services shouldn't be touching the kids. If you were doing so to make a political statement... Take them away.

I see your point, but it is not quite like the roof top. More like having them wear clothing with unpopular political expressions in an area of town where it will get noticed. So the question is more the utility of the political risk, and whether it was their intention to bring the political spotlight upon themselves and their family. I'm thinking it is too fine a line to try to define politically safe expression in these terms. The state would be likely to interfere in peoples lives, like political activists where it is not their job, but their passion to speak out against what they perceive as unfairness from the government.

I do agree though that they should have not involved their infants in this mess. I wish at some level that "idiocy" was a crime.