I am raging

So this is what a Momma Bear feels like when dumb ass people want to endanger her babies. Yes I am mad, and Yes I may curse a little...it is just one of those days.


So this is foster care: you can be having a pleasant day painting fingernails and trying to explain the concept of wasting food when you get a call (that is not from your case worker as it should have been) telling you that your foster child's moronic parents have filed a Petition of Reunification.

Panic begins, the urge to throw up overwhelms you, and you remember ever stupid decision that a person in power ever made and mentally create a picture of a judge who is too dumb to sit in your middle school class room.


Then you get pissed.

So here is the deal, Snow White's parents have a private attorney (who obviously didn't review the petition that they filed because it was riddled with typos and word usage issues) and these people have decided to file a petition the have their children returned to them immediately.

They claim that the agency did not do their due diligence, that the GAL never gets back with them, and that Snow White is lying about the abuse that happened to her while in their care.

They also are angry that she is living so far away and are claiming that because of the distance, living with us is not in her best interest. They claim that her medical needs are not being met and that not going to the same school as her brother is a detriment to her.

They also claim that the threats that they claimed to have made against her former foster parents were a lie and the the supervisors can prove that.
They Lied.

I spoke with the supervisor today and mentioned this petition, she had no idea that this had happened and was furious that they were using her name. She said that she never provided any such testimony and that they did threaten the foster parents.

I also did speak with her caseworker. Apparently in these situations very little is asked of the foster parents. They don't like to have foster parents testify if they can avoid it in order to maintain the foster parent's anonymity and/or good relationship with the parents.

I also asked if there was any reason for him to think that I needed to get Snow White's things ready to leave and he chuckled and said not at all. This is reassuring because if the judge approved this motion, Snow White would leave our home immediately.

While trying to write this blog, many people have called me and talked with me about this. The caseworker explained that parents can file this type of motion at any time during the case. She also explained that since there was no judge or attorney signature on the document, the parents wrote this themselves and the judge will consider the source.

They will also have to prove that their claims are true, but since the first claim that I questioned was proven a lie, I am assuming that there are several other....inaccuracies in the document.

It just makes me to enraged. The fact that they can write down that their little girl is lying about something that no little girl should know about infuriates me. Then they belittle what they know happened as not a big deal.
HOw can they do that to her? How can they claim that she is a liar? I mean, we guessed that they had claimed that she was lying because she is so sensitive about being called a liar, but to put it on a court document.... despicable.

Honestly I am not nearly as worried about this as I was several hours ago. Her entire team believes that Snow White is honestly explaining what happened to her and that the parents are not fit guardians in their current state. Her GAL (who I met in person on Friday and it was amazing) is happy that she was removed from her home and won't agree with immediate reunification.

However this is foster care and Anything can happen. Pray for me. This is going down on August 4th.