Jugendamt is a German institution for child protection. It has unrestricted power over families and can retrieve children from their parents without a court order, hinder the use of mother tongue etc.

Currently there are several hundred complains against Jugendamt in European Union institutions, mainly from member states of the EU but also from USA and Canada. Cases exposing Jugendamt activities and questionable behavior of German government officials and  approach often leading to what is described as kidnapping of children, fueling a multimillion hugely profitable racket that has destroyed countless families especially of those families who home school their children.