http://fanbox by Brian Richards

As you try to soothe her tears, two police officers and a social worker come into the room.

Your home school year has ended and your family is boarding a flight, happily anticipating an exciting move back to your family's country of origin.

 You rush after them, begging them to give your son back to you, only to watch helplessly as your son is taken away by social services, bewildered tears running down his face.

 Meanwhile, a contingent of officers has stormed your house, and Social Services have seized your children and are interrogating your pregnant wife, again with no explanation

While these scenes may seem like they're straight out of a made-for-TV movie script, they are actually based on real events.

 In Sweden in 2009, seven-year-old Dominic was snatched off of a plane and taken into protective custody where he remains to this day.

 And in Canada in March of 2012, little four-year-old Nevaeh set off a firestorm in the life of her family when she drew a picture of her daddy fighting monsters with a gun.

 In nations governed by dictatorships, military rule, and communist parties, the abuses of the power wielded by officials are unfortunate facts of life, and parental choice is a foreign concept.

 Increasingly, however, these parents are discovering just how vulnerable they are to governmental incursion into the heart of their homes.

 However, the belief that government, that faceless entity populated by an ever-shifting power base and mercurial