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Maybe you can help me with an issue I am having. I'm not a foster parent I was a kinship parent to a cousin's little boy had him for two years when bmom got him back, that was 10 months ago. I just recently got a call from another cousin (other side of the family) that his daughter went to jail lost custody of her newborn baby to DSS. If i could take him into my home. I called the SW the next day (Oct 10th) told the SW that I was interested in taking the baby. She said well the baby has already been placed, I told her I know that but I'm family and I would like to be considered to take care of him. She had me go into her office 4 days later and interviewed me. The first thing she asked was what was my intention with the baby. I explained I wanted to take care of him until r/u or tpr was determined and would be interested in adoption. Three weeks later she called to have all my family fingerprinted and then would go from there. This is were the problem lies, my DH,DD (22) DS (18) and I got livescanned, everyone is fine but I decided to add my DD boyfriend to the list becasue he comes over 3 days out of the week. Well, the SW called yesturday and said boyfriend had something on his record when he was a juvenile and she could not place the baby in our home. I told her that he doesn't live with us and he is now 22 and goes to college getting a degree in engineering and works full-time. I could get character letters if she needed them. He is even willing to call her and explain that he does not want to be the reason we would not be able to keep our cousin in the family and would not come over while the baby was in my care. She said that she would have to talk to her supervisor and let me know next week. I'm in CA. and would love to hear any suggestions or direction I can go from here. I told DD boyfriend not to be mean but he (the baby) is family and you and my DD are only dating. Someone help
Henderfive
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