GS-4FAMILY AUTONOMY AND THE STATE'S DUTY TO PROTECT
The Children Went Home and No One Followed: An Alappuzha Death and the Limits of Family Restoration
The death, the removal of the surviving children into care and the Child Rights Commission's inquiry have raised a direct question: how a family already known to child-welfare authorities was able to take its children home without effective oversight. The tragic starvation death of a two-year-old boy in Alappuzha prompted the district Child Welfare Committee to immediately assume protective custody of his four surviving…
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