My wonderful husband sent me an article from a local newspsper that said our states DHHR is under investigation. Finally, they messed with someone that had enough pull to get something done. I guess they took an 11 month old baby girl from foster parents that had already filed the intent to adopt. She had been with them since birth, and instead of taking one of the children that had only been there a few weeks, they took the baby. Hummm... this sounds like out story. They said they wanted her to have a traditional family, and placed her with a high status family that wanted to adopt. Even though I don't support the same sex relationship stuff, I think that it was very wrond to move the child. The couple had adopted several children and taking her from them was wrong.
One of the little boys we called about a few weeks back, had a listing on the state web site. I called and about 30 minutes later my husband said "did you see where they want him to have a single mom". I had the listing that I printed in my hand, and I showed it to him. After we called they changed it. So we are gonna jump in on the investigation, and give our statement of what goes on, and has happened to us with foster care. I hope a few heads will roll for what they have/are putting foster children through in our state.
Our first boys were 18 and got kicked out of foster care the day they turned 18, because they wanted another placement. They were in care for 11 years, and were never allowed to be adopted. Their origional worker left the DHHR because she couldn't deal with what they were putting the kids through. She is also the one that told me that the federal money was why Many of the kids are never adopted. Once we get through our adoption I am going to really open up a can of worms for the state, and I hope they get everything they deserve..... |