[MAMoore]

Hi,

My sister is a foster to adopt parent. She has two children from the same parents. The first child she got at around 8 months old only to have to return her to the parents after a year of caring for her as her daughter. She got that baby girl back after another 8 months along with her newly arrived 8 month old little sister. Now after sooo long (one is 4 the other is 3) the children are about to be returned to the biological parents...I think the childrens' best interests are not beign served but the decision has been made and they are going back officially in 100 days. My sister is devastated. We keep trying to think that there is a grand plan - that for some reason they need to go back to a home where we know that they dont receive basic care and suspect that even basic love is a stretch and where we are concerned about things we see as signs that sexual abuse may have occured - but it is hard.

Does anyone have any hope to share? Stories where the end makes this easier to bear? She doesnt know I'm here writing this...I thought maybe someone who has experienced something similar with an encouraging story might help her move forward...I think the worst part of this whole experience is that she loves these children as her own but because of the system she is helpless to help them.