Today up to 5 children will die from abuse or neglect. More children will be raped and molested by a parent than by a stranger. Children are not accorded the same rights guaranteed to the rest of us by the 14th amendment. The belief that there are strangers lurking out there watching waiting to attack children distracts us. We put pictures of missing children on milk cartons, and posters in public places.
Children are the property of the parents in today's society.
A piece of property has no rights of it's own and the owner may use and abuse that property at his discretion. Slavery is not dead in america. You can not buy people but you can own any that you produce. In today's society the myth of family preservation is still believed by those officials charged with protecting America's children. We do not preserve the rotten apple in the barrel.