Bureaucratic bullies often use the threat of referring a family to social services to coerce submission. Here is an example from Canada.

Michael Cohen, spokesman for the English Montreal School Board, told CBCnews that Marra was “perfectly entitled to call youth protection services”. “You just can’t pull your child out of school and unilaterally decide to have your own home-schooling program. It doesn’t work that way,” he said.

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