71.   The panel has found that caseworkers are sometimes so ill prepared that they are unable to explain to a judge why children were removed from their homes.

72.   The public would be outraged if children were removed every time there was an allegation, says Flora Sotomayor, program administrator for CPS.

73.   The three deaths shocked the state and caused officials to be more aggressive in removing abused children from their homes.

74.   The threshold for removing children from their families is loosely defined, varies between communities and evolves over time.

75.   The woman who took Donna likely faces child-abuse charges, and there might be action to remove the child from her care.

76.   Their foster children must be removed.

77.   Their mother hastily removed the children from the local elementary school and took them into hiding, residents say.

78.   They include making endangering the welfare of a child a felony instead of a misdemeanor in many cases and making it easier to remove children from abusive households.

79.   They started conducting programs like Operation Taxi Cab, where police got parental permission to physically remove their children from known gang hangouts.

80.   They see few other options for controlling disobedience without removing children from class, which they say is counterproductive.