[Terr_]

I've seen the narrative before and I agree that parenting attitudes have changed, but are there any stats/studies to show that kind of severe outcome has really become more common over the decades? (As opposed to simply more-feared.)

[bilegeek]

Most of the stats come from media outlets reporting on singular cases, and most of the articles on the subject are op-eds rather than scientific studies. It does seem to be more common, but overall data is unfortunately very hard to come by.

The plural of op-ed anecdotes is not objective data, but I can give you some jumping-off points:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/09/05/mom...

https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/living/feat-maryland-free-ran...

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arreste...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-mom-accused-of-leaving-ki...

https://www.businessinsider.com/teen-bans-curfews-malls-them...

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

https://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/sb0065.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/well/family/utah-passes-f...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-p...

[beaglesss]

Most the cases are sealed and depend on self reporting to the media by parents who do so at great threat of it impacting their secret proceedings, where you cannot even face the accuser.

By design they've made such studies effectively impossible from the outside. You don't even get a jury. So we're left with the odd anecdotes (as exemplified below in sister comment)from those who weren't successfully intimidated.

And that's the beauty. They can knowingly and willingly intimidate parents while screeching "but muh data, you can't prove it" laughing all along by design they've hidden the data in the shadows from inspection.

[Terr_]

Yet surely the number of cases and broad outcomes are at least countable, even if identities and specifics are not available, right? For example, like in this piece [0]:

> That study was based on an analysis of [...] the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, which provides information on removals of children from home, terminations of parental rights and adoptions.

From there with a little searching I find this graph [1] showing various metrics from 2013-2022, which don't appear to show any freakish growth over that decade.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-child-wel...

[1] https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/report/trends-foster-care-adoptio...

[janalsncm]

The flip side is you are claiming CPS is over-reaching but conveniently can’t provide any evidence of it.