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>>but I rather live in a world where the police or CPS chase every frivolous compliant than them unable to do anything without a court order or not stopping abu

>>but I rather live in a world where the police or CPS chase every frivolous compliant than them unable to do anything without a court order or not stopping abuse enough.<< This is a noble goal, but there's a very serious flaw in this logic. Money. Our government doesn't prioritize child services as much as the military and CPS works on less of a budget than you would think,so chasing down frivolous calls to action and malicious calls without repercussions and someone saying, "They weren't parenting the way I thought they should be parenting" (like letting a 7 year old walk alone in a safe neighborhood - which is fine). These take away much needed resources from very real abuse cases and placement services and treatment services for children who need them. CPS workers are often over worked and under paid, as is.

jjk166 4y ago
Unfortunately there isn't a way to know ahead of time which complaints are frivolous and which aren't. They don't know whether the person who is calling in a complaint is a busybody worked up over nothing or if it's a jealous ex who wants a leg up in a custody hearing or if it's someone has misinterpreted what they've seen or if it's someone who has just witnessed the tip of an abusive iceberg. A quick visit by a trained professional is not particularly expensive and is much more effective means of data collection than a slow trickle of information from poorly informed and possibly malicious random people. Considering that this case worker is probably not getting pulled off a "real" abuse case to do this visit but is instead going when they have an opening in their schedule and would otherwise be idle, the claim it is drawing away much needed resources is questionable.