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Originally Posted by Pebcake
I may be wrong,
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We agree on something!
I promise, I'm joking. 
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but I did watch a segment on 20/20 where the parents were on the program because there had been a complaint that there was abuse happening in the household. The social worker came, couldn't decide if it might be true or not, so took the child just to be safe. Turns out the call had been made by a disgruntled nanny. In the meantime, the child was raped in the foster home. I don't remember which state the story focused on.
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Most jurisdictions have laws allowing children to be removed if, after initial investigation, authorities have sufficient reason to believe that abuse is occuring. I don't know of any jurisdiction where it can be done "just to be safe" if the social worker can't tell what's going on.
Just to be clear, though, in this case, the complaint that sparked official action came from one of the children, and no children were removed into protective custody until some investigation had been undertaken.