Lolita is a famous work of fiction by Vladimir Nabokov. I read this book and saw one movie version of it some time ago -- but it is a story that sticks with a person. The Wikipedia synopsis is pretty good.

Humbert is not an evil man, though he is far from a saint. But his love/lust have led him to do things most of us would agree are not in Lolita's long-term interest.

Lolita feels conflicted about Humbert. At times she seems content to stay with him, other times she seems like she wants to get away, though she doesn't have the knowledge of the world to know how to make it happen.

So here is the question. Suppose that they live in Child Liberation World, driving through the American West. She's 13 years old. Suppose one day she tells a police officer that Humbert, her stepfather, is driving her around having sex with her all the time against her will and she doesn't want to stay with him. She agrees to accompany him to the police station to take her statement. But when there, afraid of what happens next, she says instead that she's consented to it all -- she just said she didn't because she was mad at him and now she wants to go back to him.

As I understand Child Liberation World, the police must just let her go. She has made her decision and it is no further business of them to intervene.

I think this is a good case study of where child liberation does not do the right thing. She needs to go to foster care. The state in all its clumsiness will do better by Lolita than Humbert will. She does not have the perspective to see that. You could claim that in Child Liberation Utopia she would have been raised to know all about these things and have the perspective. That's too utopian for me -- some kids would know that and some wouldn't -- it was after all their choice not to learn it.