For one, you could temporarily lose your child/parents. Whenever something bad happens to a child and there was an investigation in progress the investigators a

For one, you could temporarily lose your child/parents. Whenever something bad happens to a child and there was an investigation in progress the investigators are criticized. So they've set things up in many states to bias strongly towards briefly taking the child away and placing them with strangers. But that has long-lasting negative impacts on childhood development.