Have you ever had to call CPS / Child Welfare Services?

i have never called cps on anyone but as i was growning up my uncles wife kept calling cps on my father because he was a single father raising a girl by hisself and i thought it was crazy my dad never beat me or my brother or touched us in a wrong way she just didnt like the fact that he was raising a girl by himself but he had no other option my mother left and he had to do what he had to do and i have a daughter and a son on the way and they will get bumps bruises and marks on them but i thought about calling them on my daughters father because she come home with a hand print on the back of her leg and i thought that was to excesive there but i couldnt prove who had done it so i couldnt do anything about it but i wouldnt put anyone thru the hassel of cps unless i think the child is in harm by the parents

No I hbe never called cps on anyone. I don't get all worked up over a cut, bump or bruise. Kids are kids they are goin to fall, run into things, cut themselves on things. I would never jump to that extreme with 100% evidences that someone has done something to my child or someone else child. Because call CPS and having a report done with out any evidence isn't helping or making things better it does more harm then good being all crazy over little things. My daughter come home from school or a play date with a bump or something I'm not going to worry about. If she came home and told me someone touched her private parts you can bet I'll be the first person at the police station jumping down there throat to find out what happen. Other wise then that I'm not calling CPS with out my evidences other wise I'm wasting there time. Case works do more then just help families that have some kind of abuse issues they help families with money problems and living situations as well. My daughter has a case working because of her health plan that I have for her it's ruined through the government so her case worker sends me mail every now about health insurance stuff.

Yes, I have had to call them. It was a young woman, afraid of her husband, whose husband was abusing her two small children and her. She confided in me and I had to think about it long and hard before I called, knowing how dangerous her husband was to her and her children. But to be honest, despite her not wanting them involved, I believe his treats to kill her and her children were not idol and the police didn't think it was either. Thank goodness the police arrested him when the CPS went to investigate because he was threatening her and the kids as they took him away. I know she has moved away because she is afraid when he gets out of jail he will try to find her and their children and hurt them again. So far, his sentence has been extended once because of his behavior in jail, and at the rate he is going, he may never get out. Child abusers are not treated well in jail by other inmates. The children were too young for school, but I'm sure if they saw the evidence I did, they would have turned it over to CPS also. These weren't the little bruises children get from falling and playing, but obviously, from being hit by a hand, foot or whatever that man could find. Doctors can tell the difference between accidental bruises and those inflicted by an out of control parent or person. Several people in my neighborhood have been turned in by schools, and only one of them was prosecuted. Frankly, I think he deserved it, but all they did in his case was place him on probation. Since then he has moved out of state because part of his anger was because of the economy and job availability here, but that isn't an excuse for harming his children. Hope you get over being paranoid because it won't stop CPS if you really are harming your children, if not, paranoid thinking can cause you a great deal of physical stress that you do not deserve.