Does it really? I’d be interested to hear those stories.
Well, there are entire web pages devoted to it, but ...
We have friends who have a son who went through a “playing with matches” phase. One night, he set the drapes on fire, so they gave him a spanking. The kid told his teacher, the teacher told the CPS. CPS took the kid.
9 months and $60,000 in legal bills later, they got the kid back. Out went the college money for the older siblings, and the parents aged at least 10 years from the stress.
The CPS is evil.