Many people don't take troubles serious until they knock at their own doors...
My friend has got CPS' attention and appeared under their careful control. It's the first case when I hear sad news about CPS in my native city, but this evil exist everywhere.
My friend, Yara by name, is a young girl of 22, she became a mother only some months ago. Despite of this great happiness, her life situation is not easy and careless: she was brought up by grandpa and grandma, because her mom had died in her early childhood, and her dad had just left them. So grandparents became her family.
When she was pregnant, her granddad died... Moreover, she isn't married, the father of her baby appeared to be not so loving and responsible as she used to think. So she left just with her grandma, who is 75 years old now.. An old woman with a great loving heart, very kind and wise, but the age means much, and she isn't so healthy and cheery as we want our close people always to be...
So she lives with her grandma and her little son now. She is an orphan and she had received allowance till she became 18, so CPS already kept its eye on her and her family. When she gave birth to a baby, but still wasn't married and continued to live with her grandma, the attention became to grow.
Hard living conditions, the amount of monthly money is limited by the grandmother's pension and a small allowance for the child, the absence of the child's father - that's all are more than enough to pay attention and to follow this family for the CPS.
And they found the reason to enter their life...
One day, they were at home, in different rooms: the grandma was with the baby, and Yara was cleaning another room. Suddenly she heard a loud crying of a baby! Wild scream! She ran there and... it appeared that the baby fell out of his cradle and hurted his head!
How did it happen? The baby was sitting in the cradle, and the grandma just wanted to take him to another room, took the handle, and it broke down! The handle fell out of her hands, and the baby fell on his head on the floor.
The grandma was just in panic, she was screaming and trembling even more than the baby because she was afraid she had hurted him. Yara was in shock because she was afraid both of her son and of her grandma who could have a heartattack because of the stress. The baby was screaming wildly...
Yara called to ambulance because she wanted to save and to help her baby! It's a normal and logical wish of any mom, but she didn't expect it would have so dangerous effects.
In our city ambulance isn't ambulance, I mean it never comes fast! People can wait for 15-30 min and even for 1 hours if it's hot time and they have a lot of calls. This time wasn't the exception. Doctors came in 20 min.
Thanks God, the baby calmed down, he stopped crying, and seemed to be fine. But Yara was very nervous this fall could have bad effects for his health, the head is a special zone especially for newborns, so she decided to examine the baby carefully in the hospital.
They came there, made necessary procedures and analysis, and the baby was fine. Deep relief for Yara and her grandma! But a doctor asked too many questions, and then she called somebody...
Yara didn't pay attention because she was happy her son was ok! But the next day, the door bell rang... It was 7 pm. Yara was waiting for grandma's friend to come for tea, so she opened the door without any doubt, and it was shock - social workers + policemen were standing there...
She didn't understand what was going on, and when they required to see the baby and to write an explanation document why the baby had been hurted, she remembered that doctor's call... A signal to CPS!
It was the second great shock for her and Grandma. They didn't know how to behave, how to protect themselves and what to say, they did what they were required to do... Yara was very afraid, she held her baby hard...
They wrote many explanations in tiny details what had happened that day, and why the baby had been hurted. CPS asked 100s of questions. They doubted the baby really fell out of the cradle, they had an idea the baby had been just beaten by somebody! Yara explained how it happened again and again....
It lasted for some hours, but thanks God they just left the flat after receiving all the explanations. For that time it was the happy end, but one of CPS workers said it wasn't the last time when they visited them...
So now they're under careful attention and investigation. When I knew about it, I gave Yara all necessary info about CPS, their outrage and her rights. Now she reads our stories from 
In the case of CPS it's better to be "armed" too much, than to have not enough "arm".
I do hope this story will not be one of our sad stories...