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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 539197" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>My heart has gone out to her. I have not experienced this tragedy. I have experienced the total disregard for parents when it comes to the placement of a "difficult" child. Within the borders of the USA I have experienced as a GAL the misrepresentation of facts, the eagerness to get the foster child "off the rolls", the pain of emotional and sexual abuse on children who have been passed about. Among the emotional baggage the I have as a caring adult is a boy who was assigned to me by the Court system many years ago. I drove each week eighty miles round trip to fulfill my roll as advocate for a boy who had been "in the system" for decades. One day...OMG!...he told me "Mrs X I finally have a family!" (I had not heard a word thru the Court system.) I replied "Tell me about the family, son." He told me eagerly "I am moving one hundred miles from here to live with a family who <strong>really</strong> wants a son. I have met them and they are very nice." </p><p></p><p>The blankin' "system" adopted him out to people I never met, in a location I had never visited...and checked off "a new placement for adoption". It has been twenty years and my gut still tells me he was a pawn and I was not able to protect him. So sad. DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 539197, member: 35"] My heart has gone out to her. I have not experienced this tragedy. I have experienced the total disregard for parents when it comes to the placement of a "difficult" child. Within the borders of the USA I have experienced as a GAL the misrepresentation of facts, the eagerness to get the foster child "off the rolls", the pain of emotional and sexual abuse on children who have been passed about. Among the emotional baggage the I have as a caring adult is a boy who was assigned to me by the Court system many years ago. I drove each week eighty miles round trip to fulfill my roll as advocate for a boy who had been "in the system" for decades. One day...OMG!...he told me "Mrs X I finally have a family!" (I had not heard a word thru the Court system.) I replied "Tell me about the family, son." He told me eagerly "I am moving one hundred miles from here to live with a family who [B]really[/B] wants a son. I have met them and they are very nice." The blankin' "system" adopted him out to people I never met, in a location I had never visited...and checked off "a new placement for adoption". It has been twenty years and my gut still tells me he was a pawn and I was not able to protect him. So sad. DDD [/QUOTE]
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