child removal
State seizes minor
Child removal is the legal process of taking a child from their parents' or guardians' custody, typically by government child protective services.
It occurs when authorities determine a child faces abuse, neglect, or danger in their current home: The caseworker recommended child removal after documenting evidence of severe neglect.
The term appears in family law, social work, and policy debates about state intervention in family life.
- custodyProtective care or control
- state custodyGovernment holds legal guardianship
- fosterEncourage development of
- separationState of being apart
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
placement · taken away · welfare · court · guardian · protective · family court · social worker · investigation · home study · neglect · abuse · emergency · hearing · parental rights · termination · trauma · family
- cultural erasurecultural genocide, ethnocide, forced assimilation, cultural erasure, identity loss
- child custodycustody order, shared custody, sole custody, joint custody, legal custody
- custody lawcustody order, custody laws, joint custody, sole custody, shared parenting
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
- family lossorphan, motherless, fatherless, parentless, abandonment
- parental rightsparental rights, parental authority, parental responsibility, parental responsibilities, parental consent
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