Were Powell children's needs obscured by a glut of false or exaggerated child endangerment claims?

Chuck and Judy Cox, whose daughter Susan Powell and her children were murdered by their father, pointed out on the Today Show that child protection agencies  "deal with a lot of people that exaggerate the threat or cry wolf ... we get lumped into the mass of people they have to deal with. But this was such an extraordinary circumstance that we felt they should have taken more care."

Transcript of Today Show, Feb. 7, 2012.