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Has anyone surrendered rights to an adopted child? My daughter has been physically abusive to the other children in the home. She has molested my toddler son. And is constantly making false allegations of abuse against, first me now she's accusing her siblings. I am at a loss. We have worked with several Preventive agencies to keep her in the home and make it work. Four years of this plus counceling no change on her part.
I'd like to know if anyone has had similiar problems. Also, is there anything I can do legally to stop her from making the accusations to CPS. My career is being affected by this I can't get a job. I'm a single mom and sole provider. Thank Goodness the kids have their subsidies. I am being helped by relatives. I've talked to her about how wrong this is and what it does to my being able to work. She doesn't care and continues to slander me. I have other adopted children and everything is fine with them. This girl is just so vengeful and nasty. PLEASE HELP!!!:(
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Depending on the state you're working with, it may be possible to place her into a residential treatment center where she can get ongoing counseling and your family can get some peace. There are ways to disrupt adoptions but they are very difficult. Some people surrender their children back to foster care but they are often charged with child abandonment in order to do so.
Some people use agencies or private lawyers to locate families to rehome their children. You might try looking at [url=http://www.radzebra.org]Welcome to Attachment & Trauma Network - ATN[/url] for more assistance.
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You may want to contact "A Childs Waiting". This is the agency we were going to contact about disrupting. But, may parents in a different state would like to try to work with her first. She was causing so many problems, and had just began to get physical with the small kids in our home, and thats where we drew the line. She NEEDED to be an only child, and now she is. If my parents hadnt taken her, Im sure she was a few months away from foster care, as she had just begun running away. Since she has sexually abused another child in your home, if you do not have her removed asap, you will likely end up in trouble for failure to protect the other children. I would contact the county asap and ask for her to be removed!!KT
Thank you so much for responding. I am waiting to hear back from the county worker about surrendering my rights or at the very least placing her in voluntary foster care. She is presently in a psychiatric center from there she is going into residential placement. I will not have her back in the home. I realized that I could be charged with failure to protect. Even though I kept the other kids away from her always after that you just never know. Anything can happen. Thanks again!!
With our a/son, we obained an attorney and placed our son in state's custody due to his much documented behaviors and safety threat to our other children. We were not ordered to pay any child support and in fact, have an order from that judge that we do NOT pay child support and the subsidies can not be touched.
Hugs and prayers sent your way!
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Do you have a receiving family in mind? If so, you can accomplish this with reasonably minimal attorney time. It may still cost several hours of time for an attorney but this is a life changing decision for you AND the child and it isn't going to happen without consequence... physical, financial and emotional.