[willowhawk]

I am truly devasted that after 9 years an adoption could disrupt! The story is as follows... I have 5 adopted children, three of them being siblings. They came to me 9 years ago from a family of 8. The oldest was placed in a residential setting and the other four were placed in an adoptive home the next town over from me. They were all very difficult children and myself and the other adoptive parents became very close in order to keep the siblings in contact with each other. Through the years we have had our trials and tribulations. My children now aged 18, 17 and 10 are all doing wonderful. I recently found out though that the other four have been having major issues. A lot of them were just teenage related as they are 16, 15, 14 and almost 13. It was discovered that one of the girls (15) has had an 18 year old boyfriend. Of course the parents put a quick stop to that. In retaliation, the 15 yr. old said that the adoptive father had sexually molested her. This of course wa not true, but the father was removed from the home pending investigation. Things went downhill from there and after almost 2 months of the adoptive mother having these kids on her own, she decided that she could not handle them. I guess they have been very abusive to her, even to the point of threatening her with a knife. Major counseling had been going on, but to no avail. Last week the mother asked for a voluntary emergency placement for all 4 kids. The Department of Social Services denied this and instead filed a 51A against the Mom. The kids were removed and placed in temporary homes. The Mom has decided that she can no longer parent them.