Paperwork is supposed to restrain state power, not replace it. But across multiple states, courts, audits, and investigations have documented a disturbing pattern in child protection: forms treated like orders, signatures treated like shortcuts, and sworn statements treated like tools. When paper becomes authority, families can be separated first and given due process later, if it comes at all.

Paris Golec says her daughters Abigaile and Natascha were taken from her in May 2017, and that what followed was not protection, it was procedure used as a weapon, across state lines, across courts, and behind closed records. After reading her entire blog, I wrote this to put her account where more people will actually see it, and to expose the systemic failures that allow a mother to report a crisis while the system re-labels it as “civil” and lets time do the damage.