This article does nothing to sway my opinion. I usually am very much in favor of wanting more info and not jumping to conclusions, but in this case I am not. It is wrong. Maybe there is "medical child abuse" and if there is, the hospital should be able to prove that without a shadow of any doubt whatsoever and do it quickly. If they can't I'm siding with the parents every single time.
Sometimes kids are born to crappy parents, sometimes those parents just don't agree with you, some kids are wonderful, some are horrible, some grow up to be awesome, some we wish never were born. and everything in between.
None of this extremely vague stuff about a study not large enough or significant enough to even warrant a publication, let alone citing as a reason to take away a child. Or "the child's mood improved when the mother left the room" Ok, then show us, not me necessarily, but a panel of independent psych docs and convince them. NOW.
It's a scary world when a doctor can use something like that as an excuse and turn a family's world upside down. A parent should have absolutely 100% control over their own child's medical choices/decisions/treatments/etc. 100% and if they're going to remove those, then the hospital should have to prove without any shadow of any doubt that they are right, and everyone else is wrong.
I really, really don't want to live in a world where a doctor can say some vague stuff and have your child taken away because you don't agree with them. I'd like to think most others don't either.