Reading the article, I got the feeling that there was more going on than just a custody battle. Giving the kids personal alarms, wanting to homeschool them, etc., makes me think that mom was rather unbalanced. (Not that everyone who homeschools is crazy. I just think that, combined with other behavior, she seemed kind of paranoid.) If she'd gotten it into her head that her kids were only safe if they were with her, and then she was told that they'd be taken away from her (even if only to visit their father), well....