> if you aren't doing anything wrong, child protection services won't do anything regardless of people calling them Sadly, this is not always the case in the U

> if you aren't doing anything wrong, child protection services won't do anything regardless of people calling them Sadly, this is not always the case in the US. There's plenty of stories out there of CPS taking kids away from parents for extremely questionable reasons. A lot of time there are vague laws that they can use to back up their actions. For example: > In Illinois, the law defines a neglected minor, in part, as “any minor under the age of 14 years whose parent or other person responsible for the minor’s welfare leaves the minor without supervision for an unreasonable period of time without regard for the mental or physical health, safety or welfare of that minor.” "Unreasonable" is poorly defined, and overzealous CPS officials can easily claim that letting a child ride around alone in a neighborhood represents a "health and safety risk". Unfortunately, these kinds of things have happened with CPS. I can't say how common it is, but the threat does exist.