I asked my co-worker who used to work with CPS... her reply basically boiled down to "it's complicated" -- but that courts usually go with bio-parents. Even if they're lousy parents.

And then she's like, is this a true story? So I had to explain that this was a (proposed) fictional story and that Lois & Clark would probably be involved in some way.

PJ


"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K