I suddenly find the MA DSS in my life accusing me of child abuse after having spanked my daughter. When did these people become the judge and jury for us and why have they been allowed to infringe on our privacy and how we raise our children?

When too many people have abused their children.

As I just got done saying in another reply...
Unfortunately the law is enforced by people that have different determinations of what they will let slide or enforce. CPS took two of my four kids because
They did not like my boyfriend at the time and they said my kids acted up too much for me.
Yet I see CPS workers "work with families" where the mom and boyfriend do and sell drugs,
Leave their kids filthy, leave the house filthy, don't feed them well because they use their food stamps for drugs and scream and cuss at their kids and even smack them around.
I could write a book on how evil they are at "playing God" and ALL the games they played with me so that I was unable to get my kids back.

One day they were doing a home visit with my kids and they started talking about a local case that was on the news about a woman that spanked her kid in a parking lot and got turned in. When my workers heard it was a CPS worker they changed their tune and said, "I guess anybody can have a bad day!"