foster care
By mimama5
@mimama5 (28)
United States
March 10, 2010 10:48pm CST
Okay, foster care sucks and so do the caseworkers. The knitpick at everything to get your kids taken away. Then they bring up your past, which comes back to bite you. I hate the foster care system. They take kids for no reason. They make stuff up to get your kids taken from you. I hate the system, it seems like you are under a microscope. Let me know what you think.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Mar 10
mimama5 I doubt if all foster care sucks. I would think that they should be very careful who they entrust these precious children to as not all people who sign up may be kind loving people who will care and respect a foster child as they should. If you have a past thats too bad as it does count as they do not know you and they have to find out about you from your past and your present., I would think if whatever happened in your past is not now happening it wou ld not matter. but they cannot just give children to everyone who might want to foster, some foster parents have turned out to be dreadful and only want it for the money they get p aid. I think you must be under a microscope as these are living children who must not be mistreated or abu
sed. sorry but thats the way I see it.
sed. sorry but thats the way I see it.@mimama5 (28)
• United States
16 Mar 10
my children have never been abused or mistreated. I took damn good care of my children. It doesnt matter to them that what happened in my past is from 12 years ago, my baby doesnt even look like she gets a bath, so tell me how that is getting better care than if she were at home. My children were always taken care of very well, i was extrememly careful who I left them with. there are very few people who i entrusted my children too and i have even been told that I am too picky.
@mimama5 (28)
• United States
18 Mar 10
First of all, I want to apologize for jumping at you. I posted when I was angry and I now realize I should not do it. I didnt realize that I came to as attacking you, but again, I wanted to apologize. I will not be posting when I am mad. I just have a bad history, and I didnt stop to think that people dont know my situation.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 Mar 10
I don't have any personal experience with it, but I suspect it's like anything else. There are good and bad caseworkers, good and bad foster parents. But I do agree that when they do the wrong thing, it can be devastating.
@ErrollLeVant (4353)
• United States
17 Mar 10
Hi and welcome to mylot--your friend twoey pointed us to your site.
My wife and I served as foster parents for a while, as we awaited our adopted daughter. There are probably things wrong with the system, but there are kids in intense need and we did not do it for the system or for ourselves, but for those kids.
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
17 Mar 10
Let me start by saying that I understand that you are upset and angry at the situation but you have to deal with it. I agree that things from your past shouldn't have a bearing on now unless the circumstances are the same. In other words if you were in trouble before b/c you weren't sending your kid to school and that is what your in trouble for again then they should be able to use it but if you are in trouble for something else now, say not keeping your kid clean, then they shouldn't be able to use the past. I don't know if your getting what I'm saying...
I will say that I also dislike caseworkers...with a passion. There are a lot of them that seem to take a lot of pleasure in making ppl miserable. They lie to everyone, even under oath and they have their own agendas. Personally, if it was me, I'd do whatever I had to in order to get my kids back and then I'd cut ties with Family Services as much as I could. This type of thing is also why I won't ever have kids...I wouldn't take the chance of them stealing my kids.
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