Lies, hyperbole, and trouble.
Give a pissant a lot of power over any fraction of your life and you will end up ass deep in lawyers.
They don't need a warrant, don't have to have a hearing, you are presumed guilty at their whim.
You are forced to prove a negative to establish innocence, and often have to resort to a court battle to get your own kids back.
If caught lying, they double down, and they can interview your kid in your absence in school without anyone (but your kid) telling you, and they tell your kid not to.
Great granddaughter was dropped off after a playdate by the other kid's mom in her old neighborhood (they'd moved). The great granddaughter (7, and fearless) had a lot of fun knocking on doors and seeing which of her cronies were home, but by the time anyone in the family found out what was going on someone had called the SS (Social Services), the police ran interference when we went to pick the kid up and it took over a year to get her back.
In the meantime she was 'placed' with 'Foster Parents' who abused her, took all her Christmas and birthday presents from her, made her clean house (not just her room) resulting to chemical burns to her hands that made me cringe (I'm a former firefighter/EMS, and spent 35+ years on oil rigs afterwards and those rivaled any caustic soda burn I've ever seen).
At another Foster's she ended up with lice and scabies. She had never had either.
I was prepared to get the one LSW's license pulled (I had that much on her) but she retired before we got the kid back, and I didn't dare do it while the case was open.
CPS is pure evil-always has been-it should not exist in its present form at all and should not have the power to re-home kids as if they were pets. That is the main reason that I decided to work with learning disabled and retarded adults after graduation-not kids-and took my transferrable skills to the private sector ASAP-I became a workers comp case manager.