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Originally Posted by Jeremiah L.
The question is, is it the government's RIGHT to set certain rules like that? And besides that, the Rights of a Child document is not just setting rules against abuse and neglect, which should definitely be punished. But it's giving government power to define and decide when it can step in and take custody of a child, which it should not have. In extreme cases, yes, the government should take custody of a child who is being abused or neglected. But just letting it decide to do it whenever parents are "unfit," is ridiculous.
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So are the individual parents doing the abuse and neglect the ones to decide?
It makes more sense to have a societal decision. That would mean government.
Should individuals have the right to determine when a killing is a murder or when fighting becomes assault?
We need societal definitions of these things.