Families Best Interest

liberty in a representative democracy. This core doctrine leads the court’s to mouth the standard that if the State intrudes upon the sanicity of the family they must do so in the least intrusive manner possible. While this sounds good as a public policy, the sensiter and subtle philosophy and overriding concern for the child’s welfare tarnishes the application of this doctrine. The child foster care system as now judicially administered attempts to impose upon the individual choice of the parent a State supported concept of correct child rearing techniques and methods. This, of course, leads to the official arrogance of power that the Bill of Rights was specificially designed to limit.