Squalor and clutter worse than a maniac with a gun?

An interesting article I found...

An Evansville man is arrested, his children removed from his custody, after police discover his home is filthy.

Police say James Mitchell was arrested on charges of felony child neglect and receiving a stolen gun.

Officers were called to Mitchell's home on Savannah Road Sunday night, after someone reported Mitchell had a gun and wouldn't let people out of his house.

Police apprehended Mitchell without incident; but inside the home, they found four children, ages six to eight months, living in squalor.

The children have been placed with family members.

Mitchell remains in the Vanderburgh County jail.

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It's intereting to me that, while he had an illegal gun, the reason they took his children away was the squalor. What does it say about our society that when a man has a gun, and won't let people leave the house, they don't take his children away because he's a gun-weilding maniac, but because his house is filthy? To me, it says that the people in social services are more worried about squalor then they are about crazy people with guns.

Are you at risk of having your children taken away because of your squalor?

Personal Story of a Daddy's Girl

My parents have recently divorced, after having been married for half of their lives. My father has been moderately to severely depressed for years, and has been in and out of the hospital with a variety of illnesses. He was also hovering around 380 pounds. To make things worse, he'd recently lost his job (along with many others who had been downsized) and was starting to slide back into inertia and depression.

From reports from family memembers, he had gotten to level three squalor. I was going crazy with worry and with guilt (as the eldest daughter, it's always been my role in the family to take care of my parents, but my career took me from North Carolina, where they live, to Texas).

I have to say I am now looking forwards to going home and seeing Dad's clean house. I got him tapping, and when he started to spiral out of control he used this as a lifeline.

His doctors have been amazed at how much more roubust his health is. Without dieting, or exercizing, he's lost 50 pounds and is now thinner than he was when I was born. His house is now under control. He's happier and lighter, both physically and emotionally, than he has been in my entire life.

His entire life has turned around. While he still has a long way to go until he's perfectly healthy and all of the old pain has been released, watching him improve has made me determined to share the benefits of EFT with as many people as I possibly can. It's been the miracle he was waiting his whole life for.

It's changed his life, it's changed my life, and I want to help it change the lives of as many people as possible.