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<blockquote data-quote="BloodiedButUnbowed" data-source="post: 734059" data-attributes="member: 13303"><p>Hi there and welcome.</p><p></p><p>You have a big heart and it is wonderful that you want to help these children.</p><p></p><p>If this were me, I would work within the court system to have the youngest placed outside the home in a therapeutic setting. It sounds like he has severe emotional problems and that his biological father is a big part of the problem. It might be that his ONLY problem is that he was so severely traumatized as a younger child. This is NOT to minimize his issues. Many times severely abused children turn into the worst type of offenders as adults - murderers, rapists, that kind of thing. </p><p></p><p>Not to say this is your youngest child's destiny, but if he has been damaged from a young age, it is very unlikely, sadly, that any amount of therapy will help. He may not know how to interact with others in a healthy, normal way, and he may be unable to care about others at all.</p><p></p><p>This isn't his fault, but children like him can cause tremendous harm. They need to be in a secure environment for their own and others' safety.</p><p></p><p>I would make sure your CPS caseworker and all other contacts in the child welfare system are aware of every little thing this child has done as well as the ways you have tried to help him - therapy and so forth.</p><p></p><p>Does he have an IEP from school?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BloodiedButUnbowed, post: 734059, member: 13303"] Hi there and welcome. You have a big heart and it is wonderful that you want to help these children. If this were me, I would work within the court system to have the youngest placed outside the home in a therapeutic setting. It sounds like he has severe emotional problems and that his biological father is a big part of the problem. It might be that his ONLY problem is that he was so severely traumatized as a younger child. This is NOT to minimize his issues. Many times severely abused children turn into the worst type of offenders as adults - murderers, rapists, that kind of thing. Not to say this is your youngest child's destiny, but if he has been damaged from a young age, it is very unlikely, sadly, that any amount of therapy will help. He may not know how to interact with others in a healthy, normal way, and he may be unable to care about others at all. This isn't his fault, but children like him can cause tremendous harm. They need to be in a secure environment for their own and others' safety. I would make sure your CPS caseworker and all other contacts in the child welfare system are aware of every little thing this child has done as well as the ways you have tried to help him - therapy and so forth. Does he have an IEP from school? [/QUOTE]
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