What’s missing in this discussion is the neighbor. This isn’t just about CPS, it’s about there being someone in the neighborhood twisted enough to call down st

What’s missing in this discussion is the neighbor. This isn’t just about CPS, it’s about there being someone in the neighborhood twisted enough to call down state authority on the parents for no particularly good reason. Most people don’t have this kind of interaction with CPS because most people don’t live next to informers. But some people do, and the informer makes things terrible for them. Edit, which on second reading, you do mention. “Some busybody” is a big part of the problem.