I guess I wanted to say that isn't the usual...if a child ran away...the norm would not be to remove the children from their home or parents... at least that is my thinking.
I do know if I was a single parent of more than one child and one went missing...I am not sure I would be able to stay home and care for my children remaining in the very beginning, at least.
Thankfully my 2 boys now adults have never gone missing.
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I had a neighbor who had a mix of bio, foster, and adopted kids, about 8 in total. One was (maybe still is) a habitual runaway, starting at age 9 or 10. Each time, the family was investigated by cps, the boy would be interviewed by police, and he would be released back to the home. The other kids were never removed...