[WillowTheWhisp]

The more I read about this the sadder I become. I was initially drawn to this article because of the suggestion that LDS representatives could supervise the FLDS prayer meetings.

But then as I read on through the story I read that they have had their phones confiscated and are no longer able to contact their attorneys. The authorities are trying to separate breastfeeding mothers from their babies.

The women face a deadline of when the DNA samples are collected and the children are placed in foster care. They will likely be separated.

They are going to be separated even if no abuse has taken place? It sounds like child abuse is taking place right now and it's the state of Texas which is guilty of it. I never had much time for the FLDS before all this due to their stance on polygamy but my heart is softened towards them now.

Here in this country (and I don't doubt the same occurs in the US) there are children who are neglected, malnourished, beaten and tortured who are left with their parents, sometimes with the eventual tragedy of their deaths. Here we seem to have happy children, clean well fed and cared for whose only 'crime' is that their fathers may have more than one wife. It hasn't even been proved that their mothers are under the legal age and yet these innocent children are the ones who are suffering.