a year ago we started the journey to parenthood. actually, more like a year and half, when laurie said she was ready and willing to do it. but last october we got our home ready. got new furniture, a bed, towels, tolietries, bedding, a ps2. everything we could to make his first night at home good. well that first night never happened. and it never will for him. i think of him often. i still wish he was ours. and i still cling to a small speck of hope that we'll get a call, and get him. he deserves so much more then what life has dealt him. sometimes i really hate people. and "the system".
Friday, October 26, 2007
not appropriate for community placement
so as some of you may know laurie and i have been diligently preparing to open our home to a child. first he was to arrive 2 months ago. date changed to three weeks ago. instead of coming home he was sent to a therapeutic work program and would be with us in 180 days.
now they've deemed him "unacceptable for placement within the community" and will be keeping him in residenital programs until he ages out of foster care.
funny what happens when you give a homeless kid with drug addicted parents to foster parents who takes kids as a means of making money and not to actually raise the kids. then you yank them from that set of parents and give them to "family" whose main source of income is drug dealing for which one of the parents is now serving 20 years in jail for drug/gun charges. i wonder why the kid might have a problem with right/wrong. legal/illegal. empathy/remorse. hmmmm.......
needless to say we're pretty pissed. and sad. for him. for us. and for the nuturing environment (he had never had) we were ready to offer he won't get. for the person he could have (and hopefully still might) become. we're pretty devistated that he, nor we, will even get a chance.
we're going to try and fight it but they've kinda given up on him so we are low on hope.
happy samhain! guess it's mostly tricks not treats this year...
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