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Originally Posted by MassachusettsMom
Of course, I'm sure no one suggested stopping the visits.  |
You are too funny!
Let's see.....how to tell this and maintain anonymity.....
The former sw didn't exactly play by the book and has, in her belief that the kids were better off with us, jeopardized the case. Because of many, many issues--all legal, none personal (we loved her)--we are going to be visiting until the bitter end. We've had the kids for a little more than 15 months. Up until December, we'd had a total of less than 12 visits. It was on again off again, no regular visits, for 3 months mom was MIA, once she had a warrant with a no contact order that she didn't have ammended for 6 months, and the rest of the time the sw didn't schedule them.
TPR trial is in a couple of months. We'll be visiting right up until then. And when I said bitter, I meant it. Mom is now complaining about everything from the picking on her boy by mine--and it happens, but it's not any worse than with other kids--to them calling me mom, which she's known about since a year ago in November.
Oh, yeah--the family is refusing to travel to make visits. They demand that the kids be brought to them. They've had conflict with the transport worker to the point that she is no longer doing our transport.
I think it's a "give them enough rope and watch what happens" scenario. They've not passed homestudies (3 homes involved), their psych evals aren't good, mom isn't working her plan much and has been arrested on a separate charge from the initial one, grandpa had DUIs and a child abuse charge since the kids have been with me, and mom's been in and out of rehab and halfway houses several times. But it's a jury trial and you just never know what will constitute enough for TPR.
I guess I'll suck it up and do whatever it takes. My boss is great and understands the problem. I just hate being pulled in so many directions at once and feeling like I'm doing a half-way job at all of it. And I really, really hate that we're doing this drama to our kids. We all love them. You'd think we could work something out.