Child Protective Services False Reports

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Have you ever had a protective agency call you, write you, or stop by your home on behalf of the welfare of your children? Was it a necessary call? How do you view these agencies? I have had CPS called on me twice several years apart by two different individuals. Both of these women had no grounds to make calls, yet they did it anyway, and what's even worse, they lied! Of course, the officials made the mandated contact to me (one in person by an agency social worker, one by a letter in the mail) but it irks me to the core that people will do such things to meddle in people's lives. I am not saying that CPS agencies are not an important factor to the safety and well being of America's children, as some children need to be taken out of the homes they live or the parents really need to change their ways to provide a safe and sound environment for their children. The agencies need to investigate every case reported, and for good reason. But I was infuriated to find out that these women who called on me made things up to report in documentation that I am not doing all I can do as a parent or I am negligent somehow in my role as a mother. What better way to screw with someone than to call officials on them involving their children? Has this ever happened to anyone? Or have you seen cases as such within your family or close friends?