We are but a whisper away from this scenario. Try taking your child out of the hospital in the US ...against medical advise if you disagree with their treatments. You’ll be lucky if CPS doesn’t break down your door in the middle of the night and take all your children away, hold them hostage and put you through the worst judicial hell you can imagine. Just saying...
This sort of custody dispute is already happening in this country. See The Boston Globe, Feb. 23. 2016.
Have we already forgotten about the case of American Girl, Justina Pelletier? Her parents had to sue the Boston Children’s Hospital where she was locked into a psychiatric ward, against the will of the parents.