My parents used to send me outside an hour a day to play because video games and all I ever did was find a spot where they couldn't see me and take naps.
Maybe in some places. But in Iowa at least its actually really difficult to have a child removed from their parents. I know a girl who is 18 now, but when she was 16 she tried to run away from an abusive homelife, and the cops made her go home with her mother due to lack of evidence. This was after the cops saw this girl literally recoil out of fear when her mom came in.
Don't get me wrong, I understand why running away from home isn't the best plan in this kind of circumstance. But also, it's a problem when parents right to parent is more important than child's right to safe living environment.
She wasn't removed from her house largely because she was afraid to testify against her parents. And the cops escorted her home because her mother had the right to force her to go home. She didn't even spend a night in state custody. There was no investigation into her parents despite multiple people in her life reporting them to DHS. I didn't see her for weeks.
Maybe, yeah. I'm not an expert, but I've yet to hear about a place having laws which are actually reasonable and serve the purpose of protecting child from abuse adequately
Don't get me wrong, I understand why running away from home isn't the best plan in this kind of circumstance. But also, it's a problem when parents right to parent is more important than child's right to safe living environment.
She wasn't removed from her house largely because she was afraid to testify against her parents. And the cops escorted her home because her mother had the right to force her to go home. She didn't even spend a night in state custody. There was no investigation into her parents despite multiple people in her life reporting them to DHS. I didn't see her for weeks.