I hope people don’t misunderstand my stance as saying the government should always be able to decide what to do with kids.
But I do think there are times that they have to.
As with many issues like this, the question is always...where do we draw the line on what they can do?
Everyone can agree that at one end of a spectrum is a nuclear family raising healthy and well adjusted kids that have every chance in life to succeed.
At the other end of the spectrum is a single woman with no husband and no family who has axe murdered one of her ten children for being too rambunctious.
Where do we place the line?
Yeah, in an ideal world the government shouldn't be in that position, but this isn't an ideal world and sometimes something needs to be done and the government, at this point, is the only entity with the legal authority to do that.
Put her in jail and put the kids up for adoption as orphans. Once the parents are in jail for law breaking, the kids CAN'T be left on their own.