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No, when the police receive a report of neglect, they are mandatory reporters and have to call CPS. They did not have the option, legally, to ignore the report and just send the kids home. When it turned out this family had an open file, CPS was likewise obliged to do an investigation. The kids were returned in 5 hours, which is a wholly reasonable time period. [/quote]

But the police didn't receive a report of neglect. They received a report of two kids walking along without a parent.[/quote]

That is neglect.  Neglect is lack of supervision.  Kids without someone of proper age supervising them is neglect.[/quote]

If two kids walking along without a parent is neglect, then my parents neglected me, my neighbors' parents neglected them, my friends' parents neglected them -- basically everyone I know who is my age or older was a neglected child. Everyone. Every single last one.[/quote]

Yes and my kids too.  They walk home from the bus stop on their own a lot.  Sometimes I come up with the dog, other times I am on a work call.  They somehow survive but if a police officer ever picked them up, I would act just like these parents did.  [/quote]

how old are your kids?[/quote]

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