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Originally Posted by Willravel
States shouldn't draw the line, but rather should look to the best science available. This is why psychology and psychiatry exist. The same way medicine exists to understand and deal with the health of the body, psychology and psychiatry exist to deal with the health of the mind. If the kid in the article was coming to school with serious medical symptoms and the school called 911, no one would be questioning this.
It's proper for the leading experts in the area of child psychology to share their best understanding with the state so that the state can make the best objective ruling on when a child needs help a parent can't provide.
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putting this kind of power in to the hands of the state WILL leave it open to rampant ideological abuse. I can imagine seeing kids removed from their homes because they don't believe in God. it's all the parents fault for not teaching them about God.
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