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Amen.
These kids should be allowed to stay with their mothers. The whole rationale for making such a drastic sweep, as I understand it, was the documented history of girls who have just reached puberty being forced into marriage with much older men. How does this make the mothers the abusers? Just because they have been used as brood mares doesn't mean that they're bad mothers. And the trauma induced by breaking up a community so violently is likely to be as bad or worse than the pathology of that community in the first place. These women should be able to stay with their children and be given material options to integrate with healthier communities, if they so choose.