I don't know about the foster son- hug but the lesbian mother holding her 8-year-old's hand story is true. It was an incredible story that involved the law and it took the mother a long time and many hurtful hours to clear her name, not to mention the harm done the child.

Fear - of all kinds and in innumerable occasions - makes bedfellows of stupidity and power. On the one hand, we all want children to be safe but on the other we often make unsafe the very child we are trying to protect.