Can you believe that within a month, we have received calls for placement of EIGHT children?
The first child was a 3-month-old baby girl with blond hair and blue eyes. Mom had had parental rights removed from previous children, but was doing okay with this one. Then just one day, skips town, leaving the baby with a relative (who is married to a sex offender). The State was going to move forward with termination and placing the baby for adoption. However, the State wouldn’t place another child with us while our 12-year-old foster girl was still in the home since she had been rough with our 2-year-old, Stinkpot. By the time she moved, the baby had been placed in another home.
The second call was for an 18-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. This would be a temporary placement until he left for training in August. Since my husband is a Special Education teacher and his son has Asperger’s, the case worker was hoping to place him with us. We have yet to hear back on whether he will be coming here or if another home has been found.
Then, we received a call regarding 3 and 5-year-old brothers. Can you imagine our home? I would be as bald as my husband chasing boys around! However, these boys were for foster only, and we thought it would be best to leave our home open to children that may eventually be available for adoption.
The last call was last Friday morning before we left to go out-of-town. It was for a sibling group of FOUR. However, the State was going to split the sibling group and was asking us to care for a 2-year-old girl and 3-year-old boy. Sadly, there was a baby that had been born in September and just released from the hospital for FAILURE TO THRIVE, and the State wanted to place her with a stay-at-home mom. Since the goal for the children was reunification with the parent, I explained that we were looking more for legal risk children that might become available for adoption. When I told the case worker this, she seemed pleasantly surprised.
So here we are! Currently, still a family of 4! But who knows when that will change?
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