[ProspectiveSingleMom]

Unfortunately, the moving all the time does work all to well for avoiding abuse/neglect investigations. My dad was falsely accused of abusing my oldest sister, and the SW who investigated and agreed the allegation was false, told my family to move out-of-state for a while to avoid having to be subjected to further investigations if the spiteful neighbor (of course, they didn't say that's who reported, but that's who my parents assume did it) made any more allegations. So, my family stayed with relatives in another state for a few months, while my dad stayed back so that he could keep his job. This was back in the early 80s, but it's pretty sad that someone who worked as an investigator for the county didn't even have faith in the system. Wouldn't a "well, it's obvious these allegations are false, so you have nothing to worry about" make more sense if the system were doing its job? I can only hope things are better now than they used to be, but it doesn't seem so in the experiences I've had working with abused/neglected kids.