And yet every day babies and children are removed from the care of birth parents and parental rights are terminated.
My son was removed from the care of his birth parents, due to a threat. He never went back.
There has been the basic presumption at work in our society for the past 30 years or so, that children belong with their birth parents, if that environment can be made safe and sufficient. Millions of children are removed from circumstances where that bar cannot be met.