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reason.com has an entire long-running series of stories like this happening in the U.S. I've heard quite a few stories from the Netherlands. It probably happens in other countries as well.

It's an issue in many Western countries, where we've seemingly become risk-averse to the point where it's causing more harm than good.

>>arp242+(OP)
Here in Norway the child protection services have been found guilty[1] of being too quick to remove children from their parents, and not letting the parents see them.

This seems to have led to the pendulum swinging too much in the opposite direction, where they now seemingly force foster kids to meet their biological parents against the kid's will[2]...

[1]: https://rett24.no/articles/norge-felt-i-ni-nye-barnevernsake...

[2]: https://www.nrk.no/norge/mener-fosterbarn-presses-til-skadel...