They need to get out of The Peoples Republic of Kalifornia.
Silly people think their child belongs to them. It belongs to the collective!
They need to find employment in another state. Once you’ve gotten into a state database every time someone comes to your door there is a probability that state employee will do something you won’t like and it will be expensive to fight. So, if you get 10 visits and there’s a 10% chance that the employee will be having a bad day and make an adverse decision, at the end of 10 visits that probability is close to 1.
On the one hand, state employees have WAY too much power. On the other hand, if they don’t take away the child and the boyfriend, girlfriend kills the child in a drunken/drugged rage then the employee gets blamed. That’s the employee’s incentive to heck, just take the kid. It’s no skin off the employee’s nose and it’s the less risk option for the employee.
How utterly shameful. They would be better off in Russia than in Kalifornia.
The Nikolayev family needs to get somewhere else very soon. CPS, however, is CPS everywhere. In some states they are less munificently funded than in other states, though.
Nope. Not gonna improve. These CPS-as-bully stories have been out there for 20-30 years, and if that much bad press doesn't cause it to be addressed, nothing will.