Is the OS using parentalcontrolsd: RemoteService and xpcd: for Maintenance ?

I'm trying to flush out some weird OS activity that I just started noticing on my (3) different 10.9.5 Mac platforms.
Is the OS using parentalcontrolsd: RemoteService and xpcd: Interprocess Communication and Services to launch scan, observe, I/O messaging, maintenance and repairs on the OS ?
This may have been going on for awhile, but I just began noticing similar and random events on my (MBP, Mini, MacPro) Console Logs that have occurred while the systems were either being used during the day, or idle overnight. Parental Controls have never been setup on any of these systems, each has only one User Account (Admin Level), all are on my in-house RFC 1918 Network via PW protected Airport Extremes. I just began observing these events, and now beginning to save the logs when they occur and just doing some research.
Some of the events are identical across all platforms, some are different, all are at different times of the day, all launch parentalcontrolsd: (RemoteService) that conducts either a scan, access, process or observe event (FSEvent, Cache API, I/ODevice, Kernel). Most of the parentalcontrolsd: events launch a xpcd: command line of varying sorts, so I know it is activating message traffic.
I haven't knowingly observed any of the events as they occurred yet, but just installed Snitch on all of the platforms and will start watching and logging. If anyone knows if Apple uses this method for their automated update and error correction, you'll save me some time wondering about this activity… After some thought if it's justified, or nefarious. I think the ARD.app, ParentalControls.app and FindMyMac.app (Location Services) have the potential of being terribly misused by a ne'er-do-well...
Incase it turns out to be the latter, does anyone know some command line to remove the ARD.app, ParentalControls.app, FindMyMac.app without throwing kernel panics and errors in the remaining OS ?

I thought about doing what you suggested but was worried that it might try to start setting up a new partition on the hard drive and trash my existing system. Any idea if this is a safe method to test it ?
BTW the Snow Leopard CD came with iLife & iWork and is sold as a bundle called "Mac Box Set" it was on special and was cheaper than just iWork or iLife alone.

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