The situation in Allegan County, Michigan is typical of the problems caused by CPS.
In a one year period, according to their own records, CPS was involved in six hundred ninety cases. Out of these cases, four hundred seventy were found to have “no preponderance of evidence.”
What does this mean for the families involved? It means that four hundred seventy families were inconvenienced at best, and terrorized at worst by the system charged with protecting their children. Many of these families had to hire lawyers, costing them thousands of dollars. Although innocent, many had to pay the high cost of defending their innocence. The innocent pay. But why?
According to the law, CPS must check out an accusation against a family member. The problem is that this is not done. I know personally of accusations made, if they had been checked out, would have been proven to be without any basis of fact, but CPS did not bother to check them out. One case I know of is where a boyfriend, dropped by his girlfriend, called CPS, telling them the girl was being abused by the mother. This was one of the 470 cases where, although found innocent, it cost the family lawyer fees. As soon as a lawyer was involved CPS lost interest. All they would have had to do was to check out the story and the family would not have been needlessly harassed.
I believe that many of these cases would just be dropped if CPS would just do their job and do some simple checking.