In Child Welfare Cases, Most of Your Constitutional Rights Don't Apply

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The welfare of the child is the responsibility of the state.

If this is the case, then the state should follow its own rules when investigating.

It steps in when the parents are no longer the best protectors/promoters of that child's welfare.

Sometimes, sometimes not. The system is certainly weaponized, and families of some classes and races are disproportionately targeted.

Parents might lose their autonomy, but it's in the context that the child has always been an individual with rights.

A person could argue that when investigators don't get warrants to examine a child's room or body, they too are losing their rights.

But it seems to me that their is more danger and tragedy arising from a lack of intervention than there is from overzealous investigation or intervention.

The point is this is not "overzealous investigation." It's the process we have, and it routinely tramples people's constitutional rights without explicit permission to do so.