Then, according to the [lawsuit] complaint, in what may be
the single most candid statement ever uttered by a child welfare worker, a
caseworker for the private agency explained how the system really works: The
case, she explained, is a “maze.” Like mice in a cruel lab experiment, both
parents are at the “beginning of the maze.” The children are at “the end of the
maze.” She then said that “whichever parent finished his or her services first”
wins — that is, he or she would get the children.
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