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Since this is the first post of yours I'm coming across, I'm going to interact here.

Now, first off, lemme give some disclaimers.

I am a known vegan troll. I have baited, and most definitely will bait again, vegan zealots. It makes me giggle how easy it is, and I'm okay with this being my major personality flaw.

Second, that while I used to be responsible on a professional level for maintaining the dietary health of my patients, among other responsibilities, I am constantly lagging behind bleeding edge research on most of the science side of plant based diets. Notice that there is a difference between eating a plant based diet and being a vegan. Vegans aren't the same thing as vegetarians, they have an extended system of belief beyond dietary.

With that out of the way, the problem isn't a vegan problem. It's an education problem.

When a plant based diet is applied improperly, nutritional deficits occur.

However, when a standard diet of mixed plant and animal based foods is applied improperly, nutritional deficits occur.

As such, vegans need no extra layers of attention in general.

What is needed is rapid education programs for parents when it is discovered that they aren't providing good nutrition, regardless of plant based or animal included diets. Because you can raise kids on a plant based diet entirely. It's just harder, you need to have a better grasp of what foods can and can't provide enough of what kids need.

It's only when a parent refuses to correct their ignorance of dietary needs that separation should be mandated.

Unfortunately, there's really nowhere that provides good nutritional education as part of public education. At best, you get the whole food pyramid explanation and are then told to go fuck yourself lol. Even elective classes like home ec rarely go in depth into the specific nutritional needs of children.

This means that intervention needs to start with education, not separation. You can't really punish the family for a societal failure. And yes, separation punishes the children and the parents, even when it isn't the primary goal (or shouldn't be). There's plenty of damn good reasons that keeping families intact is, and should be, the default goal.