Minors and protecting yourself

[InbetweenDreams]

Not sure how social services differ between the UK and the US (I would presume that laws vary a lot) but in the US generally speaking it is difficult for social services to take kids from their parents. Usually, but I have heard of some screwy cases such as yours when nothing is wrong they want to put a microscope on you...but if it's a deadbeat alcoholic who beats their kids they turn a blind eye until the last minute.

I do see perhaps why their default action is to arrest someone on the spot since that's typically what they often do here in the US, even if you didn't throw any punches as it is all at the discretion of the officers who show up. Of course it being a 17 year old the cops probably would have changed them as well.

Of course that's just my conjecture. Hopefully they'll not make a big deal out of it but it seems perhaps they already have. Hope it all gets cleared up soon.