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Where I am from abuse has to be pretty severe.They won't removed a child for homelessness or lack of money-they will help.In the kiddos we fostered the parents had years yes years before the children were removed.That was because the beatings got so severe the agency itself would be in trouble.I felt alot of grief for the parents.I reached out to them beyond what I thought I could.I have cried, hugged, mentored them, as best I could.The mom truly did not want them back, dad didnt know this.She would desparetly call me when he left, she said she missed her childhood and now getting them back shed miss out again.She too had beaten her child as well as step dad and she admits it happned alot.He didnt get to go to school much and fell thru the cracks, teachers tried all they could.
They are in a different foster home, parents go so threatening they had to go to a different town.But not all are poor parents.You can try, to see their point of veiw, but when it keep bshing you in the face and the kids hide to avoid visits and no one listens, it does get very hard to sympathize any longer.
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