another problem for our deployed reserve service members

just when you think you've heard it all. you haven't. now, some in the reserves, are having their children taken from them.

this shouldn't be happening. NONE of this should be happening. yet, NO ONE suffers more than your president and i (according to laura 'i'm not of this world' bush)

Deployed troops battle for child custody

By PAULINE ARRILLAGA, AP National Writer

She had raised her daughter for six years following the divorce, handled the shuttling to soccer practice and cheerleading, made sure schoolwork was done. Hardly a day went by when the two weren't together. Then Lt. Eva Crouch was mobilized with the Kentucky National Guard, and Sara went to stay with Dad.
A year and a half later, her assignment up, Crouch pulled into her driveway with one thing in mind — bringing home the little girl who shared her smile and blue eyes. She dialed her ex and said she'd be there the next day to pick Sara up, but his response sent her reeling.
"Not without a court order you won't."
Within a month, a judge would decide that Sara should stay with her dad. It was, he said, in "the best interests of the child."
What happened? Crouch was the legal residential caretaker; this was only supposed to be temporary. What had changed? She wasn't a drug addict, or an alcoholic, or an abusive mother............