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Originally Posted By LauraUn, hi. My name is Laura and I live in Alabama. My next door neighbor and best friend used to work with this girl, who gave birth to two beautiful baby girls, within the last two years. She however is not capeable of taking care of them herself, so she gave the oldest one to my neighbor. She has legal custody of her. The youngest one, Angel, is 8 months old, and she was living with her mother. But today, DHR took her, and isn't saying what they are going to do with her. My husband and I have one daughter, age 13, and we have always wanted another child. We have totally fell in love with Angel, and we were going to try and adopt her. But what I am wondering is, can the mother still have say in who she wants her child to live with, and do you think we can fight DHR? I have heard they are extremely hard to deal with. If anyone has anything to say, please let me know. I would appriciate it very much!!Thank you,~*~Laura C.
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Originally Posted By diane michelsenYou need to see an attorney in Alabama asap. It seems that the b/m would still have some parental rights, but the juvenile system is rahter convoluted and confusing. If the birth mother has rights, she may be able to indicate who she wants to adopt the child. Good luck.
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Laura, In response to your question, I am new to DHR. My husband and I had to jump through hoops to become Foster Parents to a child who was within our family that DHR took away. We submitted all information about our entire life history including fingreprinting, criminal background checks, physical exams, financial records, and now foster parent classes, and then some! So, we were on DHR's "side" and they still continue to treat us like we are the bad parents or criminals. We are not respected by DHR and we are given little info about anything. The more we ask, the harder they are making it on us. It has been pure hell for us. I don't know if it's policy or a bad case worker but if we complain about her to her boss, we pay for it, believe me. Think long and hard before involving yourself with DHR. I thought that since we were the one who brought this child being abused to DHR's attention, and totally co-operated with them, we would be treated with kindness but that has not been the case.