I’ve spent the last several hours reading the saga of Maryanne Godboldo, the Detroit mother who had her 13 year old daughter removed from her care and was taken into custody by police after a long stand-off between her and the police. She wasn’t being pursued because she was a criminal or was abusing her child. She was reported to Child Protective Services by a child psychiatrist who reported her for weaning her daughter off of the anti-psychotic medication, Risperdal, and the 12 hour stand-off occurred when she refused to let a CPS worker and police officer into her home to take custody of her daughter.


Read the rest at The Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation blog.