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I have a child who said.. you can't do that to me or you'll be arrested. For giving a quick swat on the behind with his pants on?

The child was 6.

So don't they understand they are empowering children basically to cry wolf? To avoid punishment?

It's just insane.

I have 2 seperate neighbors whos kids have called DCF, Dept. Children, Families, after getting in a simple argument. They do it for spite. And the parents are handcuffed by these laws.

Last week some of the neighbor kids trashed our back yard with bitten apples. When my husband asked them to clean up the mess the spokesman for the group mouthed off with, "it's your property, it's your mess!" After a bit more of my husband being mad and the spokesman mouthing off, my husband went into the backyard.
By this time the parents of the kid who lived on that side told them to pick up the mess. My husband slammed the gate and they could not get in. They were banned from our property for the week.
I told Mr. Spokesman today that he was allowed back if he followed our rules and did not talk back to us (later I found out he told my kids that he talked back to my husband because he talked back to him). The girl who lives on that side of the property (where the apples came from) is no longer allowed to play with my children because her parents are afraid my husband will yell at her -- all because he slammed the gate.
I told my kids in my dad's day the kid who sassed would have been spanked, then re-spanked if he ran crying to his parents. It seems either the brats run the neighborhood or the kids of families who insist on discipline become ostracized.

We had that problem one time. "This is child abuse."

I went upstairs and packed his bag, told him he was going to have to go to foster care, because I was going to jail.

And that was the end of that. LOL