6. Adjust the federal monetary incentives to reflect proven success in child safety, rather than rewarding the ever-increasing placements, terminations of parental rights, and quickie adoptions. Right now states receive federal dollars when children are removed, placed in foster care, or adopted. They receive very little for family preservation or reunification, which creates a twisted incentive to remove children (See Title IV-E of the Social Security Act).

7. Disallow the use of any "risk assessment" tool that contains scientifically unproven, variable, and discriminatory indicators. Children should not be removed from home unless real abuse or neglect has been proven.

8. Create real avenues for filing complaints. In many states, parents can only file formal complaints against licensed social workers and as noted, most caseworkers are not licensed. Conveniently, many child protection agencies claim to have few complaints.

9. Guarantee due process. As it stands right now, a person who murders a child has more protection of his rights than a parent that has had an anonymous allegation made against him or her. He also has more rights than a child caught up in a maltreatment investigation.

10. Create clear, concise definitions of what constitutes abuse or neglect. Disallow vague definitions and put an end to agencies overstepping their authority and “interpreting” the law differently than the legislature intended.