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Originally Posted by ScottKuma
The problem here isn't with the old lady, but with the fact that in today's (American) society, police/child services can't keep their mitts off of a chance to completely ruin the life of a probably awesome parent in every other case.
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I happen to be an employee of one of America's state child protection agencies. I'm not with the Department of Child Protection, a division of my agency, which is tasked with investigating complaints of abuse and neglect, so I can't speak with authority on this specific issue. But I can tell you that there are way, way more terrible parents out there then is easy to comprehend. And the reality is that given the sheer number of horrible people in charge of children, child welfare agencies simply cannot ignore allegations of abuse. I hope everything turned out for the best, and that the case you are referring to is an aberration, but your ire should be focused on the abusive parents and mothers giving birth to crack babies, not the woefully underfunded agencies trying desperately to help kids.
I know I'm biased on this, but I can tell you that from the inside, what we really need is less complaints about the "nanny state" and more resources devoted to ensuring the horrible parents out there are found (and the innocent ones accused of wrongdoing are identified, as well).