Understood, but I feel like the situation could’ve been resolved long before those kids were further traumatized by being placed in foster care. Cops are not our friends.

She had been NC with her parents, and had made sure they had no say in the kids’ raising. But without the paperwork, they were next of kin. Kids were traumatized, there were no other immediate relatives *or proven legal guardians* at hand, so CPS had to take them. It was an impossible situation.