@Mira: She wasn't born on US soil. Social Workers aren't always brought in for abuse cases. Any Svartelf jurisdiction probably won't be recognized by the US. That'd be an interesting thing to read to about.
Here is the law..
A person born abroad in wedlock to a U.S. citizen mother and a U.S. citizen father acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under section 301(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), if at least one of the parents resided in the United States or one of its outlying possessions prior to the person's birth.
Sounds to me like she is an American.
She wasn't born on US soil. Social Workers aren't always brought in for abuse cases.
I believe you are totally wrong in this case.
involving more than 6.6 million children (a referral can include multiple children). And less than half of child abuse cases will never be reported because neighbors, friends, and relatives are often too nervous or afraid to contact social services and stop the abuse. Some worry they will break the family apart, especially if they are wrong, while others fear retaliation from the abuser.
The reality is just the opposite:
Reporting someone to social services is nothing to fear. The individual you report will never know that you are the one who made the call.
Further, social services will not take any action against the person you report if they find no evidence of abuse or neglect. In fact, the report and the ensuing investigation will never become a part of the individual’s record.
Likewise, social services will never remove a child from the home if your suspicions were incorrect.
Harry so far is neither guilty of abuse nor neglect. Social Services is ALWAYS involved if a minor is involved.
Well for the US, Maggie doesn't appear to have any documentation. Like a Social Security Number or a Birth Certificate. DNA testing could confirm paternity. And all of that presumes court proceedings to establish the facts.
She may have a Birth Certificate, we don't know that one way or the other. As for a Social Security Number, that can be applied for, if I remember correctly we didn't get one for our adopted babies till they were a couple of years old. Granted that was some time ago and the laws may have changed, but I don't think a baby automatically gets a soc number at birth. DNA would establish who dad is..
Come to think of it, the Carpenters enrolled her in school, most likely it was Catholic School as opposed to public, but even so, the school would require a Birth Certificate as well as a Social Security Number. I and my husband were both named as parents on both our son's Birth Certificates, though neither of us are their biological parents, they were adopted at birth. I am sure there is a paper out there with the birth parents name on it, but as far as the law goes, we are their legal parents. Father Forthill though his Church connections most likely could get a hold of the original, what ever it says. He could also help in getting a Social Security number for her as well. It most likely was all perfectly legal, I cannot see Charity or Michael being a party to something illegally done, even by the Church. So not that hard to get both Susan and Harry's name on little Maggie's Birth Certificate, most likely it was always on it.. From there the Social Security Number is just a matter of applying for it.
In Blood Rites Eb pretty much puts the blame on himself for the way Maggie turned out. But since Jim has baked in Choice as a primary plot device in the DF, Maggie always had one. He also changed it up enough so that Harry turned out differently.
I know he did, but chapter 4 explains the origins of his problem with her I believe. In Blood Rites Eb also told Harry he went easy on him when he lived with him because of the mistakes he made with Margaret being too strict. In chapter 4 Eb comes out and says he didn't raise Margaret, sounds like he wasn't even around! I don't know if you've had any experience with teenage kids or even preteen kids, but they have their own ideas about things to put it mildly. I can just imagine Margaret's reaction when this powerful wizard shows up in her life after being missing from it for ten to fourteen years, when her talent exhibited.. Now he presumes to tell her more or less how to run her life, and makes her really toe the line.. Yeah, HUGE mistake, not as clear is whether or not he told her he was her father... Lead balloon time if he did, no wonder she rebelled and it didn't turn out well.
Also as an aside, if you were raised in a dysfunctional family like me, this dialog rings true. You know everything that can make the other person bleed and when things get hot you start launching missiles at weak spots.
Indeed, as I witnessed in the dynamic between my husband and his father and aunt.
