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Wessler’s reporting showed that in dozens of states, courts have the power to sever parents’ connection to a child if authorities conclude that a mental illness might render them incapable of proper care – even if there’s no evidence of actual harm or neglect.
To be clear, he says, there are parents whom mental illness renders unable to care for their children. But there are many others harmed by laws based, as Umansky points out, on "a very different conception than the latest understanding of what mental illness is and the ability to moderate it."