31. There was no paperwork, no lawyer, no child welfare agency to peek over their shoulders. 32. After the child welfare agency takes Ariel, Wesley gives Lindsey a rent-free corporate apartment. 33. Incredibly, lawyers for the child welfare agency are fighting in court on the father's behalf. 34. The child welfare agency had no record of previous child abuse charges against the woman, police said. 35. When the child welfare agency closed the case, no services to assist the family were in place. 36. Her case has since been closed, but Nicholson's outrage at the child welfare agency remains. 37. The layman _ unencumbered by the Byzantine statutes governing child welfare agencies _ finds the decision virtually unfathomable. 38. The saga of the Santiago family illustrates a quandary beginning to confront family courts and child welfare agencies nationwide. 39. Child welfare agencies have been criticized in recent years for trying too hard to return children to troubled families.40. The judge refused to say whether he believed either he or the child welfare agency had made a mistake.
