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I didn't want to tell anyone of what was going on in my house. but one of my friends went to tell her mother and her mother called cps, with out me knowing. i was with my friends family visiting for the day and had visibal bruises. the police came right away to see me first and take pictures of the bruises. then removed me from the home that day. however a month later they wanted to send me back home. the police said it would be ok to return. i then realized how much better off i was at my new home and how well i was treated and how much better i felt there. i refused to go home. i begged to let me stay in foster home. my foster mom faught for me as well and i was later told my parents agreed to let me stay at my foster home even though they had to pay cps to keep me in the foster home because they didn't see anything wrong. even though i had bruises all the time. they don't seem to follow up very well sometimes and i couldn't beleive they tried to send me home. i'm glad my foster mom faught for me to stay with her. i did end up going home at about age 16. i was there for a month, it was suposed to be on a trial basis and i had singed papers with my worker saying i could come back if it doesn't work out. a week after i moved back to my mother's i got a phone call from my worker saying i wasn't allowed to come back even though we had allready agreed. i then got really scared of what would i do if... anyway about a month after living with my mom i called my foster mother and all i said was "i can't handle it anymore". she said i'll be right there. she came right away to pick me up. she took care of me with out any compensation from cps until i could get on welfare and find myself an apartment which i did when i turned 17. she was so good to me. she knew what i was going through and saw things that were happening, and i'm glad she saw it and saved me. she means the world to me and i love her so much. has anyone else lived in a great foster home?