“…The dominos fell with the randomness of the selection of the investigator, depending on who was on duty that day in the jurisdiction of the IPV incident. The choice of interventions in child removal decisions can vary from one CPS investigator to the next (Bhatti‐Sinclair & Sutcliffe, 2018; Hughes & Chau, 2013), with some investigators more likely to gravitate to child removal (Doyle, 2007). There are a few predictors of the decision‐making of workers to investigate or remove children, including: case factors (child race/ethnicity, gender, age, and socio‐economic status) but not the child's point of view; parental substance abuse; CPS organizational factors; and investigator characteristics – experience, stress level and personality (Lauritzen et al, 2018).…”