This short story tells so much about what is wrong with child welfare services:In Feb. 2000, my grandsons were removed from my daughter because they got a report of her "dirty house". Since then she been through the complete "treatment plan" but everytime her caseworker gives her some hope, she comes up with something else. My daughter was even told that she should sign relinquishing papers on the youngest (two years old now) or she would probably lose both boys, the older one being two, which she did. Since then she has been back to court and the judge overturned this relinquishment. Thank God. My daughter gets to see the boys twice a week, one hour at a time. Sometimes if she is lucky it will be two hours. She goes and sits with her oldest in pre-school in the morning for an hour and then gets to have time with him in the foster home twice a week, one hour at a time. If it wasn't for the pre-school, she wouldn't get to see him very much.. The youngest one, she goes to his speech therapist with him (imagine, two years old, and having to go a speech therapist) and then gets to see him at the DFS office twice a week, one hour at a time. The "treatment plan" they had her agree to, or they told her she had no hopes of getting her sons back, is so unrealistic, from drugs for ADHD and manic depressant, psychological and psychiatric evaluations, parenting classes, counseling, and anything else you can imagine. She and those boys have lost so much time together that they will never get back. I listen to her and I watch her cry for these two little boys and it just breaks my heart. These two little boys were her whole life and now her life has been taken away. Myself, as their Grandma, miss them terribly. |