Parental Rights

[aimeecc]

I can pull it up.

I think the NYT article is mis-representing the DC case. Although her grandmother claimed the mother was home schooling them, a social worker did attempt to follow up.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Story?id=4141688&page=2

The girls' absence from school prompted a social worker to visit their home. Jacks refused to let the social worker enter the home and the worker called child services.

"The home did not appear clean. The children did not appear clean and I assume that the mother is suffering from some mental illness," she said in a phone call.

No one followed up, and the social worker called again this time to the police three days later. Her frustration in trying to reach authorities clearly was audible in the call released this week by the city.

"I've been transferred all over, I need someone to come out to a home where I believe abuse and neglect is occurring," the social worker is heard saying on the call. "And I don't want to be transferred to someone else. It's an urgent matter."