I'm inclined to agree with Glocksman on this one. The girls lives cannot be that great under either parent. If they are indeed successful entertainers, then I suspect both parents have an eye on the money they've made. Particularly the father, whose implied lifestyle might need a little more cash than he seems capable of earning himself.
While I would trust neither, even with the Coogan law, the mother seems more reliable. Asking the girls to decide which parent they would prefer would probably mean staying with the mother anyway; she's been the custodial parent for most of their lives and they know nothing about their father - except, assuming there is some accuracy to their mother's divorce testimony, he wasn't very pleasant to live with.
Having the state step in to send them to an institution - where they will be subjected to other children with problems and perhaps even marked for bullying as racists - will do them no good. I've read enough stories in the news of child welfare screwups, and would never, ever trust child to the state and foster care except as a last resort. Sending them to other relatives dosen't guarantee their welfare; those people might also be racists, or have other problems. They haven't indicated any desire to intervene, either, from the story.
As the girls grow older they will begin to form their own opinions of the world, including racism. It would not surprise me if the pressure of being propaganda tools and the quality of racist company turn them off racism, and perhaps even their mother. They will have a better chance of learning non-racist ways in an economically secure home where there are fewer penalties for being rebellious.
State intervention on the grounds of anti-racism would be a disasterous precident for individual rights. Society is better off when people are free to think for themselves and reason things out from freely available soources of information. Society dosen't legally enforce racism anymore, because most people knowledgeably decided it wasn't socially beneficial. Laws are not enforced by state dictat alone; there has to be broad public sympathy for laws or there will be defiance, thru apathy and resentmant, as well as principle.
Removing children from their parents is no small decision; punishing the parents - and the children - for politicaly incorrect dissention alone is not sufficient reason. An extreme example would be
Argentina; the military junta was a staunch American Cold War ally whose leaders were trained in the School of the Americas. What happens in the periphery of imperialism can trickle down home. Racists may not be likeable, but their ideas are defeated through reasoned, open public discourse, not ideologically, politically correct statism. That sort of blind power is too easily hijacked and perverted by those who seek only power and advantage.
The best interests of the children will keep that child in the safest, most stable environment possible. That appears to be with their mother, who appears to be managing their material needs effectively, and the judge decided accordingly.
Venomous mentions Canada's hate speech laws; I actually disagree with Canada's hate speech laws; they certainly weren't applied to the reprinting of the Mohammed cartoons by the Western Standard. To me, it was Muslim baiting by people who don't like Muslims. Others 'reasoned' that it wasn't. It may be the democratic majority opinion as well; the arbitrary 'reason' of the mob - or just the the media spinners.
Hate speech laws may have put holocauset denial out of the public spotlight, but did next to nothing to debunk it. Visibly martyring such causes only makes them stronger. If you can't touch it with a ten foot pole, you can't whack it with the pole either.
It may be emotionally satisfying to some to silence those they disagree with, but to do so in such an arbitrary manner is counterproductive to real social maturity.
As for suggestions to the girl's sexual futures... not my business to comment on such things, but I will say that Alyeska's comment is remniscent of the bad-old-days lockeroom jokes suggesting lesbians only need forced hetrosexual intercourse.