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Somebody called CPS on me and now I'm worried
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 646229" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Just tell her. They can't take away kids because you are poor. That's discrimination. If you have a sofa bed you can start sleeping there or putting son there. But they can't remove a child due to poverty or many kids would be taken. I have been a foster parent once for three years and we read many case reports. Every single child was removed because of one of three things: substance abuse that has gone on even after intervention, over and over again, neglectful like a six year old is babysitting for her two year old twin brothers and they were all found in garbage cans looking for food at 3am, and physical/sexual violence against the child. Those were th e reasons we read over and over again. Nothing about "the apartment is too small" or "too many people live there."</p><p></p><p>If it helps, I'll briefly share with you a story of one little foster baby we had and loved. She eventually went to live with her very poor but well-meaning aunt who had ALL of her nieces and nephews living in her home because the others were all drug abusers many times over. They lived in a small apartment with two bedrooms, tops, and there were at least five kids there and this baby was going to be one more. The only thing stopping her from getting her niece baby was that she didn't have a crib for her. If was really stupid. So we drove the crib we'd used for this child to auntie's house and the baby went home. Nothing was mentioned about all of the people there with only two bedrooms. Sometimes her son, the father, slept on the couch there too.</p><p></p><p>There was absolutely no air conditioning or fans in the stifling heat of summer so we also bought her a few window fans to cool off the kids. It is NOT easy to lose your children.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 646229, member: 1550"] Just tell her. They can't take away kids because you are poor. That's discrimination. If you have a sofa bed you can start sleeping there or putting son there. But they can't remove a child due to poverty or many kids would be taken. I have been a foster parent once for three years and we read many case reports. Every single child was removed because of one of three things: substance abuse that has gone on even after intervention, over and over again, neglectful like a six year old is babysitting for her two year old twin brothers and they were all found in garbage cans looking for food at 3am, and physical/sexual violence against the child. Those were th e reasons we read over and over again. Nothing about "the apartment is too small" or "too many people live there." If it helps, I'll briefly share with you a story of one little foster baby we had and loved. She eventually went to live with her very poor but well-meaning aunt who had ALL of her nieces and nephews living in her home because the others were all drug abusers many times over. They lived in a small apartment with two bedrooms, tops, and there were at least five kids there and this baby was going to be one more. The only thing stopping her from getting her niece baby was that she didn't have a crib for her. If was really stupid. So we drove the crib we'd used for this child to auntie's house and the baby went home. Nothing was mentioned about all of the people there with only two bedrooms. Sometimes her son, the father, slept on the couch there too. There was absolutely no air conditioning or fans in the stifling heat of summer so we also bought her a few window fans to cool off the kids. It is NOT easy to lose your children. [/QUOTE]
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