One of my friends was so scared of CPS he had his wife keep her last name and insisted his children have her last name
That is how paranoid my friend we will call him Jim (for this piece to protect his identity) was after getting married and having children. He grew up in the system and was worried that his last name would make his children a target for CPS. I thought he was being paranoid to be honest. But I respected the fact he would give up the right for his children to have his last name in order to protect them. Fast forward a few years his marriage didn't work out and they divorced. He has co-parented with his ex wife and raised those two children to respectful adults.
He met someone new a few years ago
They have started a family together but his new partner in life insisted the children she has with him has his last name. And against his better judgement he let her have her way. The day after their son was born, CPS was there taking the child, supposedly because of a drug in her system, that the doctor gave her, it wasn't a street drug. In order to keep his family together Jim had to sell his home to pay for a lawyer. It took 4 months of fighting but he did regain custody of his son. But it got me thinking maybe he is right. Maybe the system is targeting children of those who grew up in the system and they use last names to identify then create reasons to take the child or children.
I started wondering because of what is going on with 
She too was in and out of the same county's CPS system as Jim and I was, she had moved out of the area after having children, but she started having problems with CPS shortly after moving back to our home town. So I have to wonder if the CPS in that county is targeting the children of those who grew up in the system and why? Is this some type of study? Cause neither of these families deserve to have their children remove. The only reason Jim got his child back is because he had an asset to sell to pay for an attorney.
How do we fight back against a system that does this
I don't know how we are suppose to fight against a system that does this to people. How can chains be broken when they remove children from homes who should not be removed? I see children of Heroin and Meth addicts being kept in the home but children who are from good homes because their parents were foster kids at some point in their life, being removed. It makes me sad, I don't know the answer to stop this crap from happening but I can try to start discussions about it.
