Yeah, it's crazy how they (CPS) expect to stay in contact with someone so toxic and how they seem to believe that it is in the best interest of the children. My ex brought me to court after I left the country (!) and at the time he wasn't on the kids' birth cert because I was still officially married (long story). They told me that he should be on the certs, for their best interest...I don't know why, because all he was is toxic. I even told them, all they would inherit is debt....nothing else. Not even the name. After court (in which him and his parents tried to take the children) I signed the letter for him to put his name on the birth certs....He never did...