Have you, or any child you have ever known, called the police or CPS to report their own parents?

Question

Just curious. I've never met a kid who did that, but it's bandied around on here like it's an everyday occurence.

Answer 1

In high school, I know MANY who seriously considered it, and a few that actually did.

One girl was being abused, and it took a small group of us over a month of being in her face about it before she actually did something...in cases like hers, I think it's perfectly acceptable to do so.

However, a guy I know called the police out of spite, which angered me greatly and I TRIED to talk him out of it for quite a while. He had been raised by his mother, who seemed to be a good mother...her rules were a bit lenient, but he was a pretty good kid who never took advantage of her trust, and so it worked out. His mother met a man and married him...the problem is that the stepfather tried to enforce his own, more strict rules on a teenage boy.

So, he called the police to nark on his stepfather for smoking pot.

I feel this is wrong. Unless it's a case where someone in your family is causing harm to someone else, you don't nark. In the boy's situation, he needed to think about his mother's feelings, and her choices.

A lot of people call the police/CPS because they are whiny, spoiled little children that don't like not getting their own way or the realities of getting older and having to be accountable.
Some are legit, but most are just pathetic.

Answer 2

I don`t hit my kids or spank but thats a personal decision and it does NOT mean I would ever let them get away with that kind of behavior let alone reward it. I don`t think they are afraid of CPS. That`s an excuse. What they really mean is ``I just don`t feel like dealing with them and doing the right thing aka carrying out the discipline they need because it might be an inconvenience to me to have to listen to them scream and carry on for 10 minutes``

Answer 3

My nephew did it once. But he was a delinquent, got out of control and thought he would try to get my sis and her husband in trouble because he didn't like that they were trying to discipline him (not abuse - just restricting him to his room for the night). So the police came and saw what was really going on -- that he was lying -- and gave him a good talking to. He's lucky they didn't haul him off to juvie for that one!

Answer 4

When I was 5 my mother heard screaming from across the road where my friend lived.
Afterwards he came over "to play" with a bloody nose, black eye, tears in his eyes and welts all over his body.
My mum called the children's aid (thats walk we have in canada) and cleaned him up. He stayed the night and the next morning he was taken away.

Answer 5

My best friend did that when we were in high school. She told them her dad had tried to kill her. To make it worse, she lied to them. Ironically, they never talked to her friends - if they had, they'd have known she was lying. She went to foster care for a few months before they sent her back to her parents.

Answer 6

I haven't, but I've thought about it... My dad really gets on my nerves when he gets drunk and starts threatening me or calling me names... He never really physically hurt me though... He's just a big fat asshole, that's all. If he had physically hurt me I would call the police immediately, wouldn't you?

Answer 7

In highschool I recall someone doing it, but not in my younger years. I haven't heard my daughter speak of these things at her school (knock on wood), and she hasn't threatened to call them on me yet. ;)

Answer 8

Nobody I have ever known.

Answer 9

police of cps? how do they relate? canadian pediatric society? or do you mean the childrens aid society? i dont see who would call the cps for any reason.. but i understand cas because i had to. Umm... i hope that helps some.. sorrry

Answer 10

Nope I never did. Who would?