These mothers and their children have been indoctrinated into this culture and they all are completely isolated from the outside world.  I believe that the intervention was mishandled completely here in TX...  

The state kept saying it had 31 girls from 13-17 who were pregnant or had children.  They would not provide an age break down.  As their cases went to court, 26 of those minors turned out to be 22, 20, 26, 27, and 18.  Their attorneys have told the court that these women showed their i.d. to CPS long before CPS stuck them in foster care as minors. CPS refused to accept it.

 One of the girls is 14, and she is not pregnant nor is she married. Her attorney had to fight to get that admitted to the record- Walthers said it was irrelevant.  What CPS ended up with is FIVE girls from 16-17- four of them are or will be 18 this year.
No 13 year olds.  No 14 year olds.  No 15 year olds. This pregnancy rate is not much different from the mainstream, in fact, since they do not use birth control, it's lower than the number of sexually active girls this age in the mainstream.
One of them is married to man less than three years older than she.  One is married to a man less than five years older.  I don't know about the remaining three, except that I think one of them is much older.

The two mothers who gave birth in custody and CPS took custody of their newborns?  On documents submitted to the court at the 14 day hearing, CPS had their names and birth years correctly noted.  And one of them was shown to be 22 and one 18- yet four weeks later, CPS was still saying they were minors- until hours after they gave birth.

There were 15 adults whom CPS claimed had become mothers as minors- but they all happened several years ago- at least one of them became a mother 8 years ago, and we don't know where she lived and the laws of that state at that time.

 From the 3rd Court's ruling: "* *There was no evidence that the male children, or the female children who had not reached puberty, were victims of sexual or other physical abuse or in danger of being victims of sexual or other physical abuse;

    * *While there was evidence that twenty females had become pregnant between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, there was no evidence regarding the marital status of these girls when they became pregnant or the circumstances under which they became pregnant other than the general allegation that the girls were living in an FLDS community with a belief system that condoned underage marriage and sex; (7)

    * *There was no evidence that any of the female children other than the five identified as having become pregnant between the ages of fifteen and seventeen were victims or potential victims of sexual or other physical abuse;

    * *With the exception of the five female children identified as having become pregnant between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, there was no evidence of any physical abuse or harm to any other child;

Also:
"  there was no evidence regarding the marital status of these girls when they became pregnant or the circumstances under which they became pregnant other than the general allegation that the girls were living in an FLDS community that condoned underage marriage and sex."

I also know that there are unlikely to be anywhere near the numbers of pregnant teens and abused girls that CPS claims.
The stories of pregnant 13 and 14 year olds are largely mythical.  The single alleged 13 year old mother is now 22, an she didn't live in Texas when it happened, and we aren't sure she actually has an 8 year old.  CPS Agent Angie Voss says she does.  Angie Voss is also the one responsible for holding a 22 year old in custody against her will, insisting that she was a minor child- in spite of the fact that documents Voss submitted to the court at the 14 day hearing showed that pregnant adult's proper birthyear, making her 22 years old.

Angie Voss removed the children on the basis that she saw pregnant minors.  She knew they were pregnant minors because they looked like minors to her (in spite of the driver's licenses), and they were undeniably pregnant.  Problem: the only two to give birth so far are 18 and 22 years of age. So Voss did not see any pregnant minors.
A third 'pregnant' minor is indeed a minor- she's 14.  But she's also not pregnant, and the court has had to admit that.

The 3rd Court also noted:

"The Department conceded at the hearing that teenage pregnancy, by itself, is not a reason to remove children from their home and parents, but took the position that immediate removal was necessary in this case because 'there is a mindset that even the young girls report that they will marry at whatever age, and that it's the highest blessing they can have to have children.'"
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"  there was no evidence regarding the marital status of these girls when they became pregnant or the circumstances under which they became pregnant other than the general allegation that the girls were living in an FLDS community that condoned underage marriage and sex."

You may not like what the FLDS believe about children being the highest blessing- but it is a belief that is constitutionally protected. CPS admittedly removed these children because of *beliefs.
And you may be concerned about the five pregnant teens (four of whom will be 18 this year), as am I.  But CPS had an obligation to find out some things before they took away the children, such as... who were the men?  Were they other boys?  Angie Voss was asked this in court, and she said she didn't know if she'd tried to find out or not.
They needed to ascertain marital status, and they didn't even try.
The State of Texas changed the age of marriage with parental consent from 14 to 16 in Sept of 2005, less than 36 months ago.  According to Rep. Hilderbran, the lawmaker responsible for spearheading that change, he did it entirely to stop the FLDS from flourishing in Texas. He also tried to push through some legislative changes targeted at making it harder for the FLDS to vote, but that didn't make it through.
They also changed the bigamy laws, making it a felony, and you are committing bigamy in Texas if you 'give the appearance of being married' whatever that means, while you are married to another.
So it's difficult to see this process as some noble endeavor to Save the Children rather than an effort to stamp out a religious sect that Texas finds embarrassing.

Furthermore, the 3rd Court of Appeals noted:

Texas law allows minors to marry--as young as age sixteen with parental consent and younger than sixteen if pursuant to court order. Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 2.101 (West 2006), §§ 2.102-.103 (West Supp. 2007).

So when Texas changed the marriage laws less than 36 months ago, they still left an opening for children under 16 to marry- with court order.  I am not saying the FLDS have a court order (I am reasonably sure they do not).  But I am saying it was wrong to take away 450+/- children on the basis of one pregnant 16 year old and four 17 year olds with babies on the basis of an activity the court sanctions under certain conditions, without finding out if those conditions were met- without the state even trying to find out if the girls were married, if they'd conceived in Texas or in another state where the age of consent is below 16, or if the fathers were 40 years old or 19.

The double standard is even clearer when we note that these are all the minor mothers they have, the FLDS do not use birth control, and in the 'mainstream,' 1/4 of teenaged girls have had at least one STD and Texas has the highest teen pregnancy rate of the nation- and nationwide, 40 percent of teen pregnancies are, in fact, fathered by adult men.