Far too many children in far too many states are being taken from parents for reasons that defy logic and common sense, magnified by racial and class biases. Instead of supporting reasonable parent decisions, child protective services has become an integral part of the surveillance society. This has become especially insidious where health care providers work hand in hand with police and caseworkers when children show up for routine or not-so-routine care.
We need to get back to a system in which only cases in which there is clear and convincing evidence of serious imminent harm to the child at the hands of the parent [warrant intervention]. [P]arents are simply demanding a child welfare system that protects children and families—something that is everyone's right [and doesn't tear the children apart from well meaning parents].
Link: Mom Brings Coughing 10-Month-Old to the Hospital. Days Later, Cops Take the Baby.