The Father's Sins

Today I represented one of the defendant parents in a DYFS case. DYFS is New Jersey's version of child protective services. And not a very good version, they need to upgrade to DYFS 2.0. The parties have 2 young children and went through an incredibly acrimonious divorce about 2 years ago. As hostile as they are, they agreed upon joint physical custody. The ink wasn't dried on the judgment when they each began their own campaign to discredit the other and gain control of the kids. Both have problems, one is an alcoholic and the other has mental health issues. Neither believes that they have a problem and point to the other. Thus we end up with DYFS.
Seems the alcoholic took the kids to dinner and, low and behold, if the restaurant didn't put alcohol in his drink by mistake. On finding out that the alcoholic was drinking with the kids, the nut went off. Police were involved, ultimately DYFS jumped in. Now we have a small bureaucracy for this case consisting of a judge, 4 lawyers and 5 therapists.
Separately, neither of these parents are bad people. Together they make Ghengis Khan look like Mother Theresa. Both absolutely refuse to see the damage they're doing to their kids or the part they're playing in it. This is a difficult case for me because I don't believe in my client. I do my job but the fervor is absent. People like this should be banned from procreating.