Excerpt from my guest opinion in the June 28, 2024 online edition of the Daily Herald:

The latest publicly available data for Utah shows that less than half (41%) of youth removed from the home of their birth parents or primary caretakers are granted a court order to come home.

Scholar Dorothy Roberts calls the system of family policing “benevolent terror.” It is easy to see why. When faced with the option of being either incarcerated or having their children endure the trauma of being forcibly removed from their home, how many parents would do whatever they could to avoid the latter?

Read the full article here.