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You are just getting started. We fostered for 21 years and had some of the kids for 4 years. I have watched how the kids were treated and am not impressed with the system. we have had kids put back that did not want to go back. Have seen kids try to hire a lawyer so they did not have to go back. watched them send the kids on visits to a home that had no door on the bathroom, no hot water, no stove. 5 teenagers and one was a boy. One girl even wrote to the judge asking to stay. They forced them all to go back and shortly after they started to run away. All have left now. I have seen them put kids back and have to live on the street. Do you really think that the system cares. They say they do, but when you have done this for awhile you can tell. In my county 2 years ago, living conditions was so bad for one family that the dogs were taken away and the toddlers left in the home. the toddlers had just been returned home from foster care so you know a cw had to have checked out the living conditions. Roaches were so bad that a year later the house was still condemmed. Animal feces was all over the carpet. Health dept. was involved and they could not believe that they removed the animals but not the kids. It had already been proven once that they were not being taken care of. We have really been disalusioned with the system. It does not matter what agency you are with, they all have to be accountable to the county DFC. The judge only knows what he is told and they only tell him what they want him to know. I had one judge tell me in court that he should have talked to me first that he could learn more by talking to me than the cw. That went over real well. We never got anymore kids from that county. They said they had problems with us as foster parents.
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