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It's called different things in different states. Here it's CYFD (Children Youth and Families Department).
It depends on who the trad families are interacting with. I had thought there were scandals about Muslim communes at a similar rate by population to the extremist Christian ones, but haven't looked at the numbers.
I’m not even sure I can find the extremist Christian scandals. There was YFZ ranch back in 2008/2014, but that was a weird branch Mormon cult compound. Also, it was raided by Texas; I can’t imagine they’d be any more lenient towards a comparable Islamic cult.
The YFZ raid was a dud on the claim of physical abuse of children, but most of the elders did get convicted for statutory- and polygamous muslims marrying teenagers would almost certainly get in just as much trouble. Mohammedans get a weird double standard in the progressive press but it's unclear that they actually get treated better by CPS.
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I've mostly heard drama around the kind of homeschool families and communities who don't want to have to prove they did in fact educate their children in basic ways, but the accusation was educational neglect more than religious practices.
There was a Muslim cult in New Mexico that got in trouble for physically neglecting its children, after one of them died of preventable causes.
While I think states sometimes go too far in scaring parents about what constitutes "neglect," both cases seem basically reasonable, not of the "kids playing alone in the park" variety.
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