N.Y. Family Court Act § 1011: Purpose

§ 1011. Purpose. This article is designed to establish procedures to

help protect children from injury or mistreatment and to help safeguard

their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. It is designed to

provide a due process of law for determining when the state, through its

family court, may intervene against the wishes of a parent on behalf of

a child so that his needs are properly met.