What has happened to our country? I walked to school up to the 8th grade. Since the distance to high school was more than a mile I took bus. Granted I graduated HS in 1975. Has the world changed that much or are we a country of wimps?

As a retired police officer, I find this incident to be a complete waste of resources insofar as the police and CPS. It is also VERY poor police work. A good street cop, with good street instincts, could clearly see these kids were not in distress, nor neglected in any way. Meanwhile, as these cops were wasting their time with this incident, a REAL crime occurred the involved a REAL victim. The lame PC crowd are hurting themselves. Look at what happened in Boston with the protestors blocking I-93, forcing an emergency vehicle carrying a patient, with life threatening injuries from a auto accident, to divert its route, thereby putting that patient's life in greater risk. The mindset of these 'protestor types' are contradictory in that they are ostensibly protesting a 'cause' but in reality their actions are so selfish they are causing more harm to the masses.

It's my understanding that children are abused while under CPS control something like 15-times more often than when not.

This story freaks me out...