Moral obligation is to save children first LAST year a young mother from Aurukun on Cape York Peninsula had her three children removed by the Queensland child safety department. Anxious to have them back, late last year she appeared before the elders who convene the Family Responsibilities Commission in her community. The elders told her to get her three children back from child safety she had to join the Strong Families parenting program. She recently told her story: "My children were with child safety in Weipa, and I wanted them home with me."