One of the gripes people seem to have with CPS in Michigan is their inability to get it right when making decisions about which kids are at risk and which kids aren’t. They will fight a loving parent tooth and nail, sometimes for years, trying to remove a child who’s in no danger, but on…

Whenever a child goes missing in the movies, the story tends to focus on the frantic manhunt, and the relief parents experience when the child is finally found. Which makes sense, because that’s what parents and loved ones are experiencing when a kid turns up missing. At first it’s all denial and horror and anxiety,…

One of the major points of contention among supporters of legalized recreational marijuana in Michigan and its detractors, was the issue of how it would affect kids. Would seeing their parents use pot make it more likely for kids to want to use it too? Would they be exposed to the second hand smoke of…

Thanks for joining us for the final wrap up of this talk about what could affect a CPS worker’s decision when it comes to removing your kids from your home. In the previous three articles we looked at a number of different factors than can all play a role in making you look like a…

Thanks for joining us again for another look at some of the reasons CPS workers decide that kids are at risk of being neglected. As we pointed out in the previous two articles, it’s rarely just one thing (unless that one thing is really extreme). Usually it’s a combo deal, where several signs seem to…

There are a lot of factors that come into play when CPS shows up at a family’s front door and decides those kids are at risk and need to be removed. Some of them are probably pretty obvious – a child who is severely malnourished to the point that their bones are clearly visible, or…

In a classic case of paying it forward, a rescued dog helps to rescue a child who was in danger of losing her life to exposure. However, this happy story doesn’t have a totally happy ending, depending on who you are, and where you stand on the issue of CPS involvement. Peanut, a medium sized…

Unless you have been camping in the Upper Peninsula without cell service for over a month now, you have probably heard about the Pokemon Go craze that has taken the world by storm. There have been news reports of people walking off cliffs, strolling in front of moving cars, and breaking into private property in…