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You're making a lot of generalizations and assumptions.  You're assuming, first, that the story the parents present is the entire story.  I don't assume that.  Second, your statement that "it's not neglect to let your child walk home from the park" is obviously overly general.  If I let my 4 year old walk home alone from the park, that's neglect.  I think if I let my 6 year old walk home alone from the park, that would also be neglect, but that might depend on how far the park is, the maturity level of the kid, etc.  If I let my 8 year old walk home alone from the park, I don't think that's neglect, and neither does CPS.   So let's be clear on how awful this nanny state really is.  They agree if the kid is 8, it's all good.   Your disagreement is on where that line is (somewhere between 4 and 8, probably -- you'd say closer to 4 and I'd say closer to 8).
I don't know whether the parents are neglecting their children in other ways, but [b]I do know that two separate people have reported these kids (according to that Fox news story that said the most recent reporter didn't know the kids).  That to me says there's something worth investigating.[/b]  That's what CPS did.   And the police report, while certainly not definitive, raises the issue of the kids being spotted in/near the garage and for long enough that the person reporting it called and when the police came the kids were still there.  That's not consistent with the story of the kids walking home from the park -- at the very least there was some dawdling near a parking garage with a homeless guy.  If my kids were doing that, I would want a police officer to check it out and get them out of that situation.  I'd of course want him to then bring them home to me.  But they can't do that, because once the report has happened, they have to do their due diligence to make sure the place they're returning the kids to is safe for the kids.
Your conclusion, that CPS messed up, isn't determined.  You would have to know a lot more about this situation before you decide that.  The may have, they may not have.

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To me, it says that something that used to be a fact of normal life (children walking by themselves in public) has now become so unusual that two separate people thought that the best thing to do, when they saw two children walking by themselves in public, was to call the police. I think that's really sad.[/quote]

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