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<blockquote data-quote="Ehlena" data-source="post: 394595" data-attributes="member: 6097"><p>difficult child has definitely suffered from his time with his mom. She took meth while she was pregnant and breastfeeding, and he was subject to neglect/abuse. When he was taken away he was dirty, underweight, wearing inappropriate (adult) clothes, and speech delayed.</p><p> </p><p>She hadn't really been a regular part of his life until after my husband filed for child support - and then she started calling regularly, exercising visitation rights...things went downhill from there. difficult child's teachers say they can pinpoint the exact day that difficult child decided that he no longer wanted to live with us. He idolizes his mother to an extremely unhealthy point. I've noticed that any time she makes a request of him, no matter how strange or unreasonable, he has this almost panicked, very intense reaction. He won't respond to reasoning. He constantly makes excuses for her behavior. It's maddening.</p><p> </p><p>His mom has been court-ordered to have another psychiatric evaluation.</p><p> </p><p>I'm not sure what group home difficult child will be taken to yet, the social worker told us she will let us know as soon as she does - and I'll look into those things you mentioned.</p><p> </p><p>If difficult child comes back to live with us at some point, we will be installing 24/7 security cameras in the common areas of the house, to protect ourselves from any further allegations.</p><p> </p><p>But I think I'm going to put off thinking about the future for as long as possible. difficult child is doing some rapid decompensation in foster care right now...I'm hoping he doesn't get himself into serious trouble for the next several days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ehlena, post: 394595, member: 6097"] difficult child has definitely suffered from his time with his mom. She took meth while she was pregnant and breastfeeding, and he was subject to neglect/abuse. When he was taken away he was dirty, underweight, wearing inappropriate (adult) clothes, and speech delayed. She hadn't really been a regular part of his life until after my husband filed for child support - and then she started calling regularly, exercising visitation rights...things went downhill from there. difficult child's teachers say they can pinpoint the exact day that difficult child decided that he no longer wanted to live with us. He idolizes his mother to an extremely unhealthy point. I've noticed that any time she makes a request of him, no matter how strange or unreasonable, he has this almost panicked, very intense reaction. He won't respond to reasoning. He constantly makes excuses for her behavior. It's maddening. His mom has been court-ordered to have another psychiatric evaluation. I'm not sure what group home difficult child will be taken to yet, the social worker told us she will let us know as soon as she does - and I'll look into those things you mentioned. If difficult child comes back to live with us at some point, we will be installing 24/7 security cameras in the common areas of the house, to protect ourselves from any further allegations. But I think I'm going to put off thinking about the future for as long as possible. difficult child is doing some rapid decompensation in foster care right now...I'm hoping he doesn't get himself into serious trouble for the next several days. [/QUOTE]
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