[greenberry]

My husband and I have been Theraputic Foster Parents for 6mo. and we finally had an isp. TPR was mentioned but not discussed. We came away not really knowing what the goal was other than the mother was to go to consuling and work on getting a job.
Both my children have been in the system since they were 4&5. they are now 11 & 10 . They want us to adopt them and we want to. We decided to take the TPI program to help with the children at our church to understand them. We have never had children and have been married for 20 years. we have tried to adopt and the Lord has closed all doors until now. We were told before we took these children fathers rights had been terminated and mother's would in 2 mos. This didn't happen. I also told the worker's I would have a hard time fostering and they knew we wanted to adopt. As for the money we get it all goes to extra activeties for them and to buy things(bunk bed, clothes, equipement for sports-dance) We have bonded with these children and they with us. They have been sexually abused by members of both sides of the family. They go through therapy and were placed in the mother's sister's home for 1 1/2 yr before she gave them to dhr.(she kept the 2yr. sister). All relatives of the family have been suspect so there is nowhere for them to go. the isp meeting determined they would stay with us until the bmom had a job and we would continue visit every other week and phone calls(which i have to make them do). Both children have to be made to respond to doing homework and disipline. it takes our individual attention to each child. The bmom shows no response other than wanting to get the son back. do we have any legal rights?