I know I would have never liked the state coming to my house uninvited, and I don't necessarily agree CPS should be the ones handling the home school debacle of making sure parents are really homeschooling or hiding child abuse. In the last year for which stats are available over one thousand children lost their lives in the US at the hands of their parents, eighty five did while in foster care. I am never going to grapple with whose more a threat to children or call a childs death a natural selection. We just had a case here exactly like that, a baby died from malnutrition and the father called it gods will....no that's out right neglect. He's now facing life in prison. There has to be a better way to deal with these situations, I can't argue that home schoolers shouldn't face some sort rule requirement to provide proof of life, safety, they place requirements on public school parents...why should one group not be required to meet certain demands even if those are demands are different then the other. Yes it's very sad that a minority of people make things difficult for the majority, they actually wreck quite a lot of good things for people, what's at stake here though in loss is a precious life of a child/children, if you've ever been abused as a child like I was you would know what it feels like wishing someone would finally come to your rescue.