What you deem to be ok, I may deem to be too harsh, or vice versa.  From there everything goes down hill.
Here you go :
Parents let their 10 and 6 yr olds walk 1 mile home alone - CPS goes after them :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...06c0be-9c0f-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html
"CPS Accuses Mother Of Child Endangerment For Letting Her Son Play Alone Outside"
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/09...rment-for-letting-her-son-play-alone-outside/
"A Sacramento couple recently had their baby ripped from their arms at their home by Sacramento Child Protective Services workers, with the help of local police, after telling a Sacramento hospital they wanted a second opinion on treatment for their baby."
http://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/24/sacramento-family-fights-seizure-of-child-by-cps/
This from the last article pretty much sums up the CPS :
"Assemblyman Donnelly is now demanding an audit of Child Protective Services."
"Donnelly first contacted a Deputy Director at CPS. The first question I asked them is, Are these parents abusive? Do you suspect that they are guilty of neglect or something along those lines. And they said, Absolutely not; 99.9 percent these are just normal parents. And I said then, What the Hell are you doing?'"
Note: I don't have kids so I have no horse in this race, just see it as another example of excesses of the police state / loss of freedom.