It's really unfortunate that child "protection" has come to the state that it now is in. There are some much more extreme cases where a child does need help from someone to be protected from a horribly abusive parent. That said, there are now too many triggers for child services interventions. Where I live (Ontario, Canada), for example, there are legal regulations that require certain care givers and other professionals to engage protective services at a very low threshold. Without going into great detail, I have seen examples in my work where a new mother will be reported to the protective services before she has even left the hospital. Now if she is a homeless crackhead, this maybe makes sense but if she is struggling with PPD and perhaps is just in need of greater support in her initial experience with motherhood or if her spouse appears to be prone to aggressive behaviour, these should not be triggers to report her but the practitioners are scared NOT to make a report because they fear reprisal if anything were to happen to the child. Consequently, people members of the public are scared to even take their children for medical services because of fear for being accused of neglect.

It's wonderful to do everything we can to protect children but a lot of them do not need protection. I agree with the author, we all grew up in eras where a certain degree of humanity and imperfection was permitted for parents and we all survived and even thrived in many cases. Now the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction.