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Old 11-20-2005, 09:05 PM
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Unbelievable!

I can't believe you haven't had a visit from your worker yet, having a child since June?!

We picked our child up on a Friday, and had visits the next week, then 2 weeks after that, then 4 weeks after that, and then monthly.

I think it is scary that they are not visiting more often--in the first place because as fp we need support and feedback about our kids and their cases, and in the second place because that is how so many kids in foster care end up poorly cared for or even abused--because no one is monitoring the fparents!

I don't mean you or anyone in particular, of course, but we all know some people foster for the wrong reasons and need to be monitored a bit more often than every 6 months!

I wouldn't panic about the visits--our worker did ask to see our fson's bedroom, but other than that did not look around. The visits are fact-finding missions for the info they need to put in the child's file--how he is doing developmentally, when he was last at the doctor, etc.

Good luck, and I hope your worker is worth the wait!
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