I'm speechless.

ColleenSwerb

ColleenSwerb

Brodo gettin her Swerb on
So, today was the big meeting with the little boy, my friends, his mother and her husband, and CPS.

I don't know details. My friend came home and sent a mutual friend who was on AIM a message and asked her to pass it along.

He's probably going to live with his mother in December.

I'm speechless, and heart broken.

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I seriously want to cry now...this is just irresponsible and so darn wrong....I cannot even believe this is happening!!! :cursing::cursing::cursing::cursing:
 
:cursing::cursing::cursing: what IS wrong with people?!?!?!

my heart is broken for that sweet boy and your friend. broken! :(
 
(((Col))) I feel for your friends and the little boy. Sadly CPS is one messed up system. I had to deal with them in Colorado and it was with a family that didn't even WANT their children yet they still gave DH and I a hard time. It's just a joke of a system. Children get lost in it and it's just terrible. I hope and pray that things work out for the best for this little boy.
 
:( That's beyond disappointing. I'm so sorry to hear this. I'm still going to be hoping and praying that all works out as it should and that he and his sister can finally find peace and love and stability away from their mother.
 
i don't understand how they can be so retarded. they better hope nothing happens to that little boy because of their stupidity.
 
Thanks for the kind words ladies.
I haven't talked to my friend yet. I don't want to intrude while she's so upset. I'll probably stop by there tomorrow after work. We're hoping that they will take this ridiculousness to a tv station or the news, which they were thinking of doing. It's too awful a situation and if it's so easily happening to this little boy, I shudder to think of how many others are suffering as well.
 
I was just going to say....
is there ANYONE they can talk to other than CPS?
Newspaper, radio, TV, congressman, senator...ANYONE?
Something has got to give here.
 
My friends husband wanted to contact a news station last week, but my friend wanted to wait and see what happened with this meeting today. She said the meeting was a total joke.

So I'm hoping that in the next few days they'll talk about it and contact someone to try and help. Our big group of friends are all willing to write letters on their behalf and whatnot.
 
Arrgggggggh, this makes me so angry and incredibly sad! :cursing: :(

Sadly, having gone through this crap for years in our own family, and watching the scenario with our friends and their foster kids right now, it doesn't surprise me. CPS, Family Services, etc... whatever they might be called in our different parts of the world, the common denominator they all seem to share is that they're an effin' joke! I realize it's not an easy job to expect of anyone, and the bureaucratic BS they're entangled in is beyond stupid but, SERIOUSLY, where do they find some of the bleeding heart idiots who work there?!? Ugh, I need to stop before I head off on a tangent that involves a reeeaaally lengthy rant...
 
I hear ya Joan. It was silly for us to get our hopes up. My friends have gotten screwed over since the beginning with this situation. It's been going on for 3.5 years!

::sigh::

I just keeping about how awful a Christmas he's going to have this year. Our group of friends can't even send him anything because his mom most likely will not give it to him, and will sell it for drug money.
 
I'm so heartbroken for your friends, Col. It's a really sad, twisted world when stuff like this happens. And Joan, I hear you about going off on a rant! :cursing::cursing::cursing::cursing::cursing:
 
Well, you never want to stop getting your hopes up, of course. And you try to tell yourself things like at least we're giving the kid(s) some good in their life, but it's such a frickin' kick in the gut every time this crap happens.
 
He's so lucky to have your friends interceding for him, especially since the system seems to be stacked against him. :(
 
Ugh, that is wrong!!! But as a former foster parent I am not at all surprised by that ridiculous decision. Boy the stories I could tell ya!!! :mad:
 
your poor friend.I had the same thing happen to me except it was some other foster parent who grrr the system short of the long is...there were 3 kids..who were adopted by these people who did all these terrible things to them and made them do to each other think terrible...and multiply it...anyways the system said that they should not be put back togehter sibling wise because of these happenings and when u got the children back togehter bad things happened..anyways...they went and placed all of them back together with people who adopted them who went to church wtih these people. The whole situation amkes me ill...

AND lets add another story--i had 2 foster children and it makes me so furious

My other "foster son" I have been trying to adopt since he was 13. He's now 16 almost 17 in may. His father whose a drug addict and has alot of problems won't relinquish custody because the state won't force him to. He's never made a plaec for this child or his brother when 18 was kicked out of the system into NOTHING..homeless. he tried to kill himself until I flew out there and helped him get on his feet and live on his own. He doesn't want to leave the state because he loves his brother--but he wants to live with us. His little brother has now gone through 8 other homes since i've had him...they have now stuck him into a "mental" area because he's had a nervous break-down from all the home swapping....I've wanted to adopt him since he was 13. I even told his father I'd let him see him at ANY TIME he wanted. I'd buy the plane tickets etc. as long as he let me take this child OUT of the system. It makes me ILL.

My prayers are going out to your friend and the little boy it makes my heart hurt so bad to see that once again the SYSTEM isn't working...

Oh I've got another interesting tid bit....my DHs mom got her kids taken away and his sister was placed with her father who...is a registered child...you fill in the rest....once again...makes no sense...

ANYONE A SOCIAL WORKER? if so PM me..i need some advice...:( Had to share my 2 cents since I know all too well how it goes and I completely empathize.
 
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Oh Col, that is awful!!!! I can't believe they sent that little boy back to his mother! What the heck is wrong with the judge???? If it was his grandchild you can be sure he wouldn;t be doing that!
 
WOW, I'm shocked, I can't believe the people who are put in place to protect children are doing him the worst harm. I'm sorry Col, that just breaks my heart!
 
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