Clearly you haven't been involved in a child custody case. If you had, you'd know the kinds of tricks people will play, up-to-and-including falsely claiming the child has been kidnapped and is under threat. Family court never, and I mean NEVER, holds anyone accountable for false accusation, and there is a subset of family law attorneys in every town who knows this and uses it, if they get a chance. The collateral damage, "boy who cried wolf" style, is just another unhappy side-effect of this practice.
As for the risk of a murdered child, well, if that argument works for you, then why stop there? Why should police have to wait for a search warrant...what if we end up with a murdered child? Why should police have to avoid using deadly force to stop a fleeing suspect...what if we end up with a murdered child? Of course, we already have a (rather large, vocal) group of people who believe exactly this, which is why CPS is called on parents who, for example, run into a bakery, with their minivan idling with 6 kids in it, and get arrested for child endangerment.
It's easier to take an extreme, confident position when you don't know anything about it.
As for the risk of a murdered child, well, if that argument works for you, then why stop there? Why should police have to wait for a search warrant...what if we end up with a murdered child? Why should police have to avoid using deadly force to stop a fleeing suspect...what if we end up with a murdered child? Of course, we already have a (rather large, vocal) group of people who believe exactly this, which is why CPS is called on parents who, for example, run into a bakery, with their minivan idling with 6 kids in it, and get arrested for child endangerment.
It's easier to take an extreme, confident position when you don't know anything about it.