Guardian urges against return of caged kids

A court-appointed guardian for 11 children taken from the adoptive parents who kept some of them in cages testified yesterday that she has believed for months the youngsters shouldn't be returned to the couple.

Well hey, with 11 kids, it's hard to keep track of them all! Cages (with name labels) surely help. The parents said

the enclosures, rigged with alarms, were needed to protect the children from one another and to stop them from roaming the house at night ...

Well, cages will help that.

And on a happier note, since being removed from the cages, "Their whole demeanor has changed," Ms. Kern said. "They're energetic. They're brighter. They're crisper." (I'm glad she didn't say 'crispier'! I'm anti-cannibalism).