The threshold for a child protection action in most jurisdictions is "suspected" abuse and neglect which includes "possible danger" to the child. No hard proof or evidence is required. The information gathered through this consent form will be sufficient to raise suspicion towards many households thereby enabling a protection action. Suspicion is largely subjective. The authorities are telegraphing their move.
That's kind of why our criminal justice system was set up the way it is. It was set up under the principle that it's better to let a hundred guilty men go free than it is to jail one innocent man. That's why If you get a good lawyer, most of the time all your charges are going to get dropped. Civil court is a modern invention that was created to get around this legal threshold so that the government could oppress the living fuck out of people without really having to prove anything. I know it's fucked up to say this but it's better for society overall if the government doesn't have the power to remove a child from an abusive household except in the case of an arrest and conviction. Because if you give the government this power, then this shit is what's going to happen. That power will be used to persecute dissidents.
The threshold for a child protection action in most jurisdictions is "suspected" abuse and neglect which includes "possible danger" to the child. No hard proof or evidence is required. The information gathered through this consent form will be sufficient to raise suspicion towards many households thereby enabling a protection action. Suspicion is largely subjective. The authorities are telegraphing their move.
That's kind of why our criminal justice system was set up the way it is. It was set up under the principle that it's better to let a hundred guilty men go free than it is to jail one innocent man. That's why If you get a good lawyer, most of the time all your charges are going to get dropped. Civil court is a modern invention that was created to get around this legal threshold so that the government could oppress the living fuck out of people without really having to prove anything. I know it's fucked up to say this but it's better for society overall if the government doesn't have the power to remove a child from an abusive household except in the case of an arrest and conviction. Because if you give the government this power, then this shit is what's going to happen. That power will be used to persecute dissidents.