Parents’ nightmare: Mississippi officials take away kids for too much homework

‘A Mississippi couple lost custody of their five children for making them do “excessive” homework and having too short “punishment” haircuts, among other unproven accusations. It took them months of legal battles with the state to get their children back.
Details of this social services horror story would have stayed inside the family of Jennifer and Scott Berry, had it not been uncovered by the Biloxi-based Sun Herald.
Over two years after winning a case against Mississippi Department of Human Services, the couple and their children are still struggling to get back to life as usual.’
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