People with good intentions may not oversee the consequences when they did report something that could have been solved without interference of CPS.

We are conditioned to alert the "authorities" when something seems amiss. We assume that the authorities will ensure that the situation would be resolved in an equitable manner - but the truth is CPS is looking for easy targets and will use manipulation and trust building to leverage between parents and children and parent and parent. The "authorities" ultimately believe that family structure cannot be restored and the answer is almost always removing the children from the parents. @ironshield