2 Network TV shows Sunday dissed CPS

The first on ABC, featured a family who were impoverished by CPS, DCFS probably
in California because their child was taken away on the old saw ( intentional
pun) of brittle bones disease.

Also known as osteogenesis imperfecta. The family (eminently middle-class and
loving, BTW) used up all their savings fighting stupid court orders.

FWD:

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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Sunday, November 28, 8/7c
"Burns Family"
ABC

The design team adapts the Burns Family home in Garden Grove, California to
accommodate a six-year-old with "glass bones."

Gerald and Ellen Burns get a makeover after spending most of their savings
fighting a court order that separated them from their son, who has osteogenesis
imperfecta, a genetic disorder that causes bones to break easily.

Producer(s): Tom Forman.
Original Airdate: November 28, 2004. 8 o'clock/ 7 o'clock Central on ABC TV

Obviously, this was another false allegation that nearly destroyed this family.
There are thousands of them. Even when the falsely accused PROVE their
innocence, they do not recover the court costs, which can run $50,000 to
$100,000.

UPDATE- Here's the story-

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
WTNH.com

"Burns Family" - On "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," airing Sunday, November
28 (8:00-9:00 PM), the design team adapts the Burns Family home in Garden
Grove, California to accommodate a six-year-old with "glass bones."

When Benjamin Burns was born in 1997, he was an apparently healthy baby boy.
Six months later, Benjamin's sister was playing with her baby brother and, when
he started to fall, she reached out to help him. But when she grabbed his arm,
she unknowingly fractured it. In the weeks that followed, routine tasks
performed by Benjamin's parents resulted in more visits to the hospital and led
to the discovery that his arm had been re-injured and he had a fractured skull.

Eventually, Child Protective Services was called and Benjamin was separated for
three months from his parents, who were accused of child abuse. Nothing could
have been further from the truth, and loving parents Gerald and Ellen Burns
spent every resource they had trying to get their son back and prove their
innocence. When it was finally diagnosed that Benjamin suffers from
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), a genetic disorder characterized by bones that
break easily, the Burns were cleared (?) of the abuse charges and allowed to
bring their son home. Which is really uncommon.


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The second network offering by CBS featured a sister, too poor to foster her
younger brother, who was left to be predated upon in a GROUP HOME.

Peter Falk starred as a angel. Would that many children languishing in GROUP
HOMES were able to access an angel.

Sources: http://www.familyrightsassociation.com