2006 New York Code - 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.