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Evelyn
2002 · Film · 92 min
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
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One of my neighbors is a police officer and she is appalled by the behavior and decision making of child protection services. She described multiple occasions where she was required by law to accompany someone from CPS to take away a child in circumstances that were unwarranted and only happened because the family was too poor to fight a legal battle. The movie Evelyn (based on a true story) illustrates that this is a perennial problem.