Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Preventing cohousing “neighborly awareness” from becoming surveillance (with CPS calls)

[Sophie Rubin (yophiest]

The idea that your neighbor in cohousing would call CPS without it being an
egregiously inappropriate or abusive situation is absolutely wild to me.
Your neighbors are there to help you mind your kids, or let you do your
thing, not sic the authorities on you… what a toxic situation. I’m so sorry
you’re dealing with that.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 15:41 Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:

> Our community culture is much more let-the-kids-play-on-their-own than your
> examples suggest, so we don't have rules about it. I'd be surprised to
> learn if anyone has ever called CPS on a neighbor here. I hope your
> call-CPS-first neighbor is an outlier in your community and not typical,
> but either way their behavior feels very unhealthy and unfriendly to me.
> I'm sorry you have to deal with this.
>    Muriel @ Shadowlake Village
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