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Hello All,
I will be very brief as time is running out. My partner and I were matched with a baby boy over 8 months ago to Fost/Adopt. Our son was only 4 days old when we received him. Bio Mom has no interest in raising her child and has never once called us or met our baby. When baby was 3 months old we received a phone call from our county worker and she stated that there was a possiblity that there was a Dad. Someone contacted our worker from jail stating he was our son's father. He has been encarcerated since Dec 2011 and is projected to be released Dec 2013. Everything moves so slow with the county and finally DNA was ordered from Dad and Son. When we received results our son was already 7 months and results came back positive. The county reached out to Dad's family to discuss placing child at their home but they werent interested. Once they found out that DNA was a match they showed a little more interests. So grandparents have decided to take our son. They have cleared background and are awaiting home clearence. We seem not to have anyone on our side and want to hire a lawyer to fight this. Our son should be with us as he is very attached to us now. I need help with this situation. Has anyone been thru this before? I need advice or if you know of a lawyer that will fight for Foster Parent rights. PLEASE HELP!!!
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I have the opposite end of the experience. Our (soon to be) kids are currently with their foster parents for almost a year. We are trying to bring them home to us and have been weeding through the long process almost six months. My first question is how do you know the family was not interested? I can say from my experience we were never contacted or asked. The birth parents were not forthcoming with information and without them the state agencies do not actively look for willing family members. By the time we we already looked bad for not coming forth sooner. My heart aches for the foster parents and the kids however isn't it in their best interest to be with family if the family are good people able to care for them. I have attended foster care meetings since the beginning on my own to get as much information and a jump start on the requirements. They teach from day one the main focus of fostering in reunification with the family. I think foster parents are given hope to adopt prematurely without giving the rest of us a chance to parent our own family. My heart aches for the foster parents and for the kids. I worry about the kids and how they will adjust but I also know I can teach them to overcome the circumstances that brought them into care in the first place. They may never know there is much more to our family then their birth parents. In my heart they are already my children and I will forever be grateful to the couple who opened up their homes and hearts and cared for them. However I will continue to do my best to bring them home.
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