The Tom Woods Show, episode 457.

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What an episode we have for you today talking about child protective services.

And I think to the extent most people give any thought to child protective services at all, they think this is a benign institution. After all, it's looking after the welfare of children. What could be better than that? Well, that characterization is very much disputed by our guest today, Carlos Morales.

Carlos Morales is a former Child Protective Services investigator.

He is president and founder of Child Protective Services Victim Support

and a committed legal advocate for family reunification.

We're going to be talking about his book, Legally Kidnap,

The Case Against Child Protective Services. Remember, by the way, to get your copy of my free

e-book, 14 hard questions for libertarians answered by texting the word liberty to 33444. We talk about defense and law and sweatshops and drugs and banking

and the environment and all kinds of issues you're going to have to deal with when arguing with

your friends. We help you sort that all out and give you some good arguments for your arsenal.

So that's texting the word liberty

to 33444 to get that free ebook. All right, let's turn now to Carlos Morales. Carlos,

thanks so much for being here today. Thank you for having me. This is such a shocking book and

story that you have here, and it's on a topic that I think a lot of libertarians are

uneasy about, because as you note in the book, there obviously are cases in which children's

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