Solomon's Sword: Two Families and the Children the State Took Away

The book came in a very timely manner. I was very pleased because I was on a timeline.

I was disappointed by the decisions of the judges in the LaFlammes case. But the Melton case was different. The reader gets 2 different stories about 2 different scenarios. I was kind of thrown off by the irrelevant stories that shapiro had thrown in. That is the only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars. It would have been a better read if the author would have just stuck to the point of the finalities and decisions of the stories instead of throwing in extra chapters that were kind of irrelevant to the other ones that actually had something to do with the cases mentioned. Other than that, great book

Shapiro applies his first-rate reporting skills to the issue of child neglect and delivers a book full of uncommon insights.