In re Curran’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““A child’s running away from home must be considered an extraordinary circumstance which both justifies and requires the State to intervene to protect the interests of the child. *** [T]he [Youth] Act does not authorize the State to remove a child from a parent. The [Youth] Act merely authorizes the State to provide a program in which the child may temporarily seek shelter and assistance. The child is neither removed nor detained by the program, since it is the child who has sought refuge in the program, [from] which he is free to leave upon his request unless a court order has been entered. The Legislature has sought to provide a temporary solution to the immediate problems faced by runaway children. The Legislature’s findings and purposes are set forth as follows: <*** legislature hereby finds and declares that juveniles are running away from home at alarming rates. Runaway youth are without protection and the ordinary means of support, exposed to unnecessary danger and become victims of various illicit businesses which prey upon their vulnerability. This [Youth] act is designed to establish procedures and services to help protect runaway youth and to alleviate the personal or family situations which present a threat to the health or safety of the youth or the family. ‘The legislature recognizes that when a youth runs away from home, it is symptomatic of some underlying personal or family conflict. The policy of this state is to provide assistance to such persons and to ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 131 Ill. 2d 328 - People v. R.G.