“If she was starving him into a life-threatening health condition for the past 20 months, and it was getting worse not better, despite home visits and home observations and other family support and interventions, would you decide it wasn’t anyone else’s business”?
A Constitution is difficult enough to maintain, A Republic under a Constitution is more difficult yet. If sticking your nose into other peoples business would net the end of the Republic and the Constitution, what would your decision be?
...and let’s carry it right to the end, the parents are abusing the child, sexually or at least there is a hint. No evidence yet, just a hint, a thought, a rumor.
...and despite the perceived snarkyness with sticking ones nose where it doesn’t belong, that is not aimed at anyone specific, it is a general question regarding the powers granted government by the people and Constitution.
The people cannot grant to government a power they themselves do not have.
aside from your completely overlooking the fact that almost 2 years ago, doctors who saw this child for sleep apnea filed a complaint with social services for parental medical neglect and child in need of supervision due to his morbid obesity - care to start your argument again?
I guess you could propose that mandated reporting by doctors (and teachers and other professions that work with kids) of child abuse and neglect is unconstitutional, “the people” should withdraw their consent to it, and go from there. And let families deal with their own kids as they wish, short of killing them, by commission or ommission.
“The people cannot grant to government a power they themselves do not have.”
The problem with this reasoning is that the parents are citizens of the nation also, and they do have the power to intervene in the child’s life, so they can grant a measure of that power to the government.