When parents demonstrate that they do not have the emotional and intellectual wherewithal to tend to their children's well-being (as these two have done), then it is the duty of the state to act in loco parentis.
When parents demonstrate that they do not have the emotional and intellectual wherewithal to tend to their children’s well-being (as these two have done), then it is the duty of the state to act in loco parentis.
And who chooses when parents have crossed that line? And by what authority?