At one point in Murphy Canyon Family Housing (Navy) the families organized enough if CPS showed up at the front door, the kids would be shoo'd out the back door and by sunrise the next day the family was on its way home to wherever they came from.

I can't begin to guess how many good loving Navy families were ripped apart by Calif.  CPS, and how many divorces resulted from it, notably when the husband was deployed to sea for months at a time.

I was once told that MCFH was the state's leading supplier of Caucasian children for the adoption market.

Roosevelt Roads Family Housing N/E of SF was just as bad, and I saw the same thing in Chesapeake Bay Virginia in the Navy family housing groups there.
 
It's truly pathetic.
 
But, you have to understand junior enlisted service members are brainwashed to trust the system, to not 'rock the boat' and to comply with orders blindly. This naturally extends to civvie authorities.
 
Point by point:
 
* Services hanging families out to dry to avoid ‘appearances’ of collusion/covering up- Yes, big time.
* Threaten service members career to obtain compliance- Yes, absolutely.
* Denying service members due process of law- But of course. But no more than in any other low income family targeted by CPS.
* Unwarranted intrusion into a family- See above, they'd cruise the family housing complex watching the playgrounds for kids dirty from play (well duh), then follow them home and raid the family on whatever pretext they cared to invent (like this is hard in a family existing half a point above the poverty line?).
 
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