How is it possible that it is so easy to argue that a child would be “irreparably damaged” by being reunited with her father?

The Associated Press: Fight Over Cuban Girl Reaches Fla. Court
A judge hearing arguments in a custody case over a 4-year-old Cuban girl criticized state officials Monday for saying she would be irreparably damaged simply by being taken from her foster family and returned to her father in her communist home country.

Cuban farmer Rafael Izquierdo is fighting his daughter’s wealthy foster parents for custody. He allowed the girl’s mother to take her to the U.S., but the woman later attempted suicide and allowed the state to take custody of the child.

The point that needs to be driven home, time after time, is that unless you want to eliminate natural families, children are presumed to be best off with their natural parents.  What we are seeing is, I believe, an accelerated push toward some kind of system in which children do not live with their natural families, and are put into state run facilities where they are raised (socialized) by “the village”.  The only argument against this being the logical direction of development is that it would eliminate the great societal cash cow, child support.