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Originally Posted By Scared Foster Parents

My husband and I have been Foster parents for a little over 6 months now. Right after getting our license we got a beautiful little boy right from the hospital, he was ofcourse a "tox pos" baby, but he was and is still a great kid. At the hospital, the "father" denied him and stated that he didn't want him and he(the baby) was taken from the "mother". Now 6 1/2 months into the process, with our adoption almost completed the "father" has decided since he is in good health and a good baby he wants to try and take him away from us. Of course we realized that these kind of things could happen when we got into this, but the social workers and everyone said that this was pretty much a done deal, being that the "mother" is incarcerated for a few years and "father" didn't want anything to do with him. So now we are fighting with the new social worker and his "father" for us to be able to keep him. Does anyone out there know of any ways that we can get around this and find some way to keep him with us. He has never even seen the "father" and only seen the "mother" a few times because she refuses to do visits or anything. The "father" knows nothing about this baby and has no clue as to how to care for him. What if anything is there that we can do? If anyone has any pointers or information regarding how we can keep our son, please help us. We have thought of contacting an attorney but don't know if that's the right thing to do. Please help if you can. Thank you!!!!!

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Originally Posted By Alicia

I'm sorry to hear about the difficulty you are having. I was told that in the state of California, after you have been a foster parent for the same child for 6 months straight, you are able to have an attorney to represent you and your rights/wishes as the foster parent. In Ventura County each foster child has an attorney. How is your relationship with your son's attorney? What does he/she say?