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We have a foster boy, he is now 9 months old, he was born Cocaine addicted. We have had him since he was 5 weeks. (was supposed to be a 4 week placement)(family did not want him because he was damaged)(Now they think he is fixed) He is a high maintenance baby. Cocaine birth and FAS.
Since that time he has had maybe 3-4 contacts with Bio-mom. He has had 1 contact with biodad. biomom currently in jail, bio dad just out of jail, again.
Now that it is time for placement. The state of wants to place him with an aunt in another state. We have written evidence that biomom plans on getting him back from aunt in 2-3 years
In the best interest of the child, he does not need to be placed back in "HELL".
My wife is stay at hiome mom, Degrees in Early childhood and elementry Education, We have adopted several FAS/drug children. Its what we do. Please contact us
We need help fighting this, how do we contacte interstate. Contact us please if you have info! FAS adoptive kids having panic attacks, scared they will be taken!
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I am not an expert on this by any means, but knowing what I do about adoption my advice is to find an attorney SOON. This link seems to have lots of KY info regarding adoption, including the ICPC administrators. I would also (and this may not be good advice but what I would do) get documentation of the FAS by someone who can testify to what damage removing the child could do. You do not have abandonment as the biomom has visited some. Good luck, again..please do not wait for the state to take the child, be prepared and at least talk to an attorney.
I hope this link helps.. [url]http://aaicama.aphsa.org/statepages/kentucky.html[/url]
Teresa
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That's the state does if reunification isn't possible, they look into kinship placement. If they can find a decent family member that's willing to take the placement, in most cases, that's where the child will go. I don't know all the facts, but also sounds like the baby isn't legally freed up and is just that a "foster placement". I don't know what the written proof may be but it seems like if say pursued in court it can be contested. And don't get me wrong, I totally sympathize with you and hate you're in this predictiment, because you can't help but be caring and get attached. I just know from what happened in my family years ago, my sister was out there in the streets making all the wrong choices. She got pregnant and actually stated in the paper that no one in the family was to be contacted or be given custody. When we found out, the baby was already in foster care. We begged her & the state for that baby(we're decent folk) and my parents had to eventually sue the state in order to gain custody and adopt the baby(11mos and $10K in legal fees later) and won. The judge decided in less than a hour into the case, that the state violated the baby & family's rights to maintain ties because the state never investigated or did any homestudies to prove us unfit. All I'll say is just "love that baby no matter what can/may happen".