there are definitely reasons for the state to take someone's child, all of which involve the parents being criminally negligent, abusive, or deathly incapable towards the child.

the problem is the state has slowly started to redefine these terms to include situations that very much do not warrant taking the child away.

examples of situations that would accurately fit these terms:

Negligent: the parent purposefully and willingly leaves a toddler home alone for multiple days straight.

Abusive: the parent is fucking the kid, or the parent is beating the kid such that they sustain injury.

Incapable: the parent is either physically or mentally incapable of performing their basic duties as a parent. ex: the parent is physically incapable of learning how to cook or hiring someone to cook for the child, the parent has an addictive drug dependency that prevents them from being lucid or sane while the child is present, etc.

how the state seems to be trying to redefine these terms:

Negligent: the parent has not scheduled the child to have one of the hundreds of shots and medical interventions that are now scheduled for them by the state.

Abusive: the parent refuses to accept the child's gender dysphoria that was diagnosed by a third grade teacher with no medical practice license.

Incapable: the parent is unable to understand or refuses to acknowledge the constantly changing pronouns and social taboos that are being concocted by the public school system.