New Mexico Statutes Chapter 32A. Children's Code § 32A-3B-1. Short title; purpose

(1) through court intervention, to provide services for a family in need of services when voluntary services have been exhausted; and

(2) to recognize that many instances of truancy and running away by a child are symptomatic of a family in need of services and that in some family situations the child and parent are unable to share a residence.