An interesting situation developing in Italy after a family living an "alternative" natural lifestyle had their children taken after getting mushroom poisoning.
The court cited poor sanitary conditions at the family's home in the mountainous Abruzzo region and unauthorised homeschooling of their eight-year-old daughter and six-year-old twin boys, according to AFP.
They were raising the children in the woodlands home without mains electricity, water or gas, relying instead on solar power, well water and homegrown food.
I think it's pretty messed up when the state takes your kids away. Especially for something so harmless like simply living off the land.
The couple defended their lifestyle as "one without stress" and said their children were "growing up better" in a recent interview with Italy's public broadcaster Rai.
"The children are happy, healthy. We haven't done anything wrong if we want to return to nature," Ms Birmingham told Rai in broken Italian this month.
"Taking children away from a parent is the greatest pain there is … it's an injustice," he said.
The case has also sparked intense debate in Italy over alternative lifestyles and more than 135,000 people have signed an online petition backing the family.
I see a number of bitcoiners romanticizing about this kind of lifestyle. Just got to be careful out there. Perhaps it's better to do it in a place that is more remote.