In her latest book, Out of Control, Who's Watching Our Child Protection Agencies? author Brenda Scott reveals the chilling truth about a system gone haywire. Drawing from court records, case files, media reports, and personal interviews, the author discloses how the child protection system is, in far too many instances, overstepping its function. Vague definitions of child abuse allow maverick social workers to pull children from safe environments and put them in foster care, where they are often emotionally, physically, and even sexually abused. Other children have been knowingly returned to unrehabilitated parents to be brutalized again.

With insufficient checks and balances, the system that was designed to protect children has become the greatest perpetrator of harm. Social workers are poorly trained and, for the most part, unsupervised. Foster homes are sometimes far more abusive than the child's original environment. Most disturbing of all, however, is the current trend to confer even more authority on government agencies to enable them to 'protect' our children.

There are ways to protect your family from deleterious and unconstitutional government intervention, however. In Out of Control, the author explains
- What parents rights really are
- How to demand and protect those rights
- Exactly what to do if a child protection worker shows up at your door
- Which agencies to contact for help when under investigation by a child protection agency.
It is vitally important that the child protection system be overhauled before even more harm is done. The author calls on parents to wake up and move to stop this trend before it's too late.