Where my tax money goes.

"It's probably the largest family law case in the country if you look at it as one big problem," said Vick, the former chairman of the Texas Bar's family law section.

Walther and the lawyers who gathered in her courtroom split up the 400-plus children into several categories, including teenage mothers, boys and girls of different age groups, and children with special needs. But because of confusion about birth records, authorities suspect 20 to 30 of the people seized may be adults.

Several of the children have given investigators differing stories about who their parents are, attorneys told Walther.

Fearing that members of the sect remaining on the ranch would try to influence their testimony, the judge Sunday ordered mobile phones confiscated from the 100-plus mothers who accompanied children to the shelter.

Vick said he expected some of the children to be reluctant to open up to lawyers.

"Given the background these kids have had and the culture they've been raised in, they would be afraid," he said. "So it's not surprising, and certainly they have only one experience, and they do want to go home. That's not unusual at all."

Though there have been only 123 cases filed thus far by the state's Child Protective Services Division, about 416 children -- most of them girls -- are included in the custody battles.

MAAAAAN the governments just mad that these families are all still together because if they weren't they'd be collecting big time on those child support checks like Flavor Flav and his 6 (oh wait a new one is on the way) baby mama's are.
So much [unneeded] time and media attention has been brought the the "polygamous scandal" that I've become tired of CNN and FOX. Is it really that big of a deal? How important is it to this society; how does it affect my life? The media, which we've already known, reports on news that doesn't do anything to advance or teach society. The dictionary defines news as: information about recent and important events. Keyword IMPORTANT.

Supposedly the importance in this whole thing is this:

"It was no secret that a polygamist sect that built a compound in the West Texas desert believed in marrying off underage girls to older men. And the sheriff had an informant for four years who was feeding him information about life inside the sect.

But authorities say their hands were tied until last week, when they finally obtained the legal grounds to move against the group."

Well believe me, if it was that important and all of what they said was going on it wouldn't have taken 4 years for authorities to do something; unless the police were responding to citizens call from South Central, then i could see 4 years before any action taking place.

I feel these people aren't harming anyone. Though American society feels that polygamy is wrong, for some reason, I personally feel it isn't harming anyone in society. They have their own little town and live a green life, Al Gore should be happy.


Look at the fence on that thing, ain't NO one getting in there. Or out.