It is sad but I think the best you can do is call it in after the fact and give the police a description and the last known location of the parent and child. Obviously that isn't ideal but really there is no better alternative.

Oh I agree, sometimes when I am out in public I see parents behaving horrible towards or in front of their children. If it is really horrific language I think you could justify calling in to make a report (I'm not saying that anything would come of it for sure, but really some parents are just awful in the things they…

You are correct that legally parents have the right to spank their children. I am confused though because I never said in my comment that spanking was abuse...maybe you are replying to the wrong person?

I am very particular about touching. I'm not much of a hugger, even with my good friends and family. So I really relate to this, I don't like when a dude I have just met is trying to be in my personal space. I don't think this means we are doomed to die alone buuuuut, I am perpetually single so I might not know what I…

I remember that case, I think there are too many unknown factors at play for me to make a judgment that the child was taken away for no reason. I don't believe that the police and social service workers would take away a child just based on the second hand information that was given to them by a caller. I believe that…

Yes! I watched a documentary about the Toynbee Tiles on Netflix awhile back. It makes me sad that the tiles have been destroyed/purposely removed...I would like to travel and see them for myself.

TRUE DETECTIVE!

No advice but congratulations on the new job!

I don't have kids but I've been a kid...hands down I would rather hear my parents yelling cause of a fight rather than yelling "in ecstasy." Ewww. Just...ewwww. Like, my parents have been married for over 30 years and I am happy that they have such a happy stable marriage and have provided me with this example of how…

I had never heard of this before...what a sad story!

Yes! That one is just so bizarre...the details are just so creepy

I'm sorry your son's classmates are being such buttheads. Your son sounds like a sweetheart and I think you are doing all the right things, I think getting him involved in activities outside of school is a great idea. I hope he makes some new friends soon.

I'm sorry you went through that. You are absolutely correct that sometimes people file false reports just to be malicious, or vindictive or maybe they completely misinterpreted something they saw.

Ooooooh thank you for this! I am still going through all your links but I LOVE that you posted so many...I am basically addicted to reading creepy things on the internet. Like, depending on how many people post creepy links, I might stay in and read tonight rather than go out and socialize like a normal person on a…

Yes D.B. Cooper!! So mysterious...

I'm so sorry that your family is going through this.

My best friend gets this a lot. She is pretty, confident but also more reserved. So many people go out of their way to tell her that they hated her at first (they say this after she has become friendly with them) and I HATE it, she is used to it by now, but I always get all angry when I hear someone make a comment…

Yeah I agree, it is really sad that no one called in to report it. I used to work in an elementary school doing social work and SO many times teachers would come to me to tell me about possible child abuse they had witnessed or that the children had told them about. The thing was, these teachers KNEW that they were…

Yes exactly. In my state there is a current push for "renunification." On the one hand it makes sense: there aren't enough foster homes to accommodate the number of children that are pulled out of homes, and sometimes being placed in foster care can be more disruptive to a child's development and actually introduce…

It sounds like you either have personal or professional experience working with some particular social workers so I am not going to discount that, if in your experience they were slacking off then I believe your assessment.