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Re:Utah governor signs law legalizing 'free-range parenting' by oh_sigh on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @01:47PM (#16640590)
There's a number of stories about children being taken from parents for dubious reasons, who end up dying in foster care:

Removed from parents because the father smoked marijuana at night when the child was asleep, child murdered by foster care parent with a history of violations: http://fox43.com/2014/11/06/2-year-old-taken-away-from-paren...

Removed from parents for "drug use and homelessness", died from neglect in foster care: https://www.abqjournal.com/1113809/caregiver-arrested-in-dea...

Removed from parents because baby had a bruise from when he bumped his head while feeding, died in foster care: http://fox40.com/2017/08/17/after-baby-dies-in-foster-care-b...

Re:Utah governor signs law legalizing 'free-range parenting' by zzzeek on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:06PM (#16640780)
I read that last one and I'm not sure the "free range parenting" bill would even cover that. That was a case of, baby had a bruise and a doctor arbitrarily decided it was a willful injury by the parents. A process as aribtrary and random as that seems pretty broken and after that the foster process failed catastrophically. But I doubt "free range parenting" shuts down the entire process of removing kids from environments that are detected (rightly or wrongly) as directly physically abusive.