charliesmum | (no subject)

My friends are losing their foster kids. Tomorrow, apparently.

The kids are going to their paternal grandmother who apparently couldn't be bothered with them when they were eating out of trash bins and sitting on a shit-covered couch while their heroin addicted mother slept, but now she wants them. Probably so she can hand them over to their father, the pedephile.

When DYFS sent the kids to my friends', they were told this was a definite foster to adopt situation, and there was no other family in the picture. They have spent the last eight months loving these children, caring for them, giving them security and safety, but they aren't 'blood relations' so, back to grandma they go.

You have no idea how much these kids have changed since they got here. The twins didn't speak, and now they talk in full sentences. The oldest would sleep all the time and hide in the closet, and now she is a bright and happy little girl. What is going to happen to them?

I wish there was something I could do. I wish they could run off to New Zeland with the kids. I wish the universe was actually fair. I really wish the father gets hit by a bus sometime in the next 24 hours.

I wish real life had happy endings.

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I am so so sorry.

WHAAAAT?

What the fuck is wrong with those assholes at DCYS?

I hope that your friends do run away to New Zealand with the kids. The hell with turning them over to the grandmother. I sure as hell wouldn't. She's already proven herself more than unfit, as far as I'm concerned.

I wish I had the Doctor's psychic paper, or knew a Jedi mind trick or two, or could use Voice on the DCYS creatures like the Bene Gesserit do in Dune. Anything to keep the kids away from destructive blood relatives and with people who love them, where they BELONG.

They really ought to have a test of, "Well, let's see, did you give a shit before? No? Well then," and that's the end of it.

That really blows.

That is just so awful and enraging. I'm so sorry. I hope the kids will somehow, some way, be okay.

Dammit! Can't they get a lawyer and fight it somehow? Prove to a judge somewhere how the kids have thrived with them and show what a lousy grandmother she was? That's just not freakin' right.

Oh, fer fuck's sake. Just how far do these hacks at DYFS have their heads up their asses?

It's so very aggravating that blood closeness is more important than actual care.
There probably should be some form of making sure they are being taken care of, in their grandma's house. Will your friends be able to take them back if they aren't?

the send them back to blood relatives here too. They hope that the blood family have come to their senses and are ready to take responsibility again, depending on the situation the grandmother may not even be monitered.
it is not right and not just and definatly not fair..........one can only pray for the kids and their saftey.
i don't believe one can adopt unless all parents relinquish parental responsibility, and being taken off them for the kids sake is not seen as them agreeing to the relinquishment. seems stupid, but for some it does work and parents do change..........but for the most it doesnt. And sadly it is the way of the courts in most counteries.

however would offer safe haven down under anytime.

Poor kids. My Grandparents were foster parents even now they have a few foster kids who visit them.

I wish the universe was actually fair. I really wish the father gets hit by a bus sometime in the next 24 hours.

Me, too.
Sometimes I hate the way the world is organized.

Oh God, I'm so sorry for all of them.