People who are CPS workers are often the rejects within the bureaucratic world. Many suffer from low intelligence and are forced to settle for a job that no person would want. Some are as deranged and flawed human beings as the people they are in charge of investigating.
A degree in sociology at some community collage can not prepare anyone to be qualified in making the decision to remove a child from its family and hand it over to a government ordained custodian! Yet there are some really abused and neglected children out there who do need to be removed from unsafe conditions.
There are so many angles where the system can go wrong. I was confronted with a false report made by a vegan neighbor who didn't like the fact that I butchered my own food, that brought CPS to my home. The Hispanic woman who showed up was extremely disrespectful, inconsiderate, and in my opinion not worthy to make any decision regarding my children at all. Yet there she was with all the authority of the State behind her. As far as I know nothing I was doing was illegal, and yet the worker was insinuation that somehow the children were in danger because of the bones and animal pelts hanging in the back yard. I was questioned about Vaccines, medical care, butchering of animals, the children's schooling and many other things.
The investigation was dropped, but the experience of being treated like shit by people who lack the intelligence to understand the greatness of the raw Paleo lifestyle and fail to see how actually well off my children are still pisses me off a little. Especially if you know as I do about the degree of depravity within the area in which I live. Every other house is a haven for drug addicts and child abusers. There are more neglected children in my part of the world than the system could possibly deal with. Its no wonder that the workers become misanthropic and it explains why the best and the brightest avoid that line of work entirely.
Who in their right mind would want to come into my den and say that the state may have to take my children unless I change the way I live.
You might get your head chewed off and handed to you. (metaphorically speaking)