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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 164383" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Anything that gets an agency looking at the problem is a good thing. If you go to a parenting class and pop up with "I'm here because an abandoned unrelated child who lives with us molested my son" you might get a rise out of them.</p><p></p><p>The next thing I am going to say, I don't want you to think that I am suggesting you throw this boy away. I'm suggesting you threaten to.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, and without the boy knowing, I would hold the "He's not ours and you need to give us services or take him to foster care tomorrow" card over their heads. They don't want that, and they know full well that you have no legal obligation to keep him. I'd play it hard, too. If he were in a foster home, they would not only be paying the monthly fee, there would be respite care for the foster parents, medical, mental health, dental, hospital, Special Education, you name it. They just plain aren't going to take that chance.</p><p></p><p>Don't do it if you can't do it without blinking though. You have to have a good poker face to pull it off. Make sure he's out of the house at school or with husband or something so he doesn't hear, and don't discuss it with husband where he might hear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 164383, member: 99"] Anything that gets an agency looking at the problem is a good thing. If you go to a parenting class and pop up with "I'm here because an abandoned unrelated child who lives with us molested my son" you might get a rise out of them. The next thing I am going to say, I don't want you to think that I am suggesting you throw this boy away. I'm suggesting you threaten to. Honestly, and without the boy knowing, I would hold the "He's not ours and you need to give us services or take him to foster care tomorrow" card over their heads. They don't want that, and they know full well that you have no legal obligation to keep him. I'd play it hard, too. If he were in a foster home, they would not only be paying the monthly fee, there would be respite care for the foster parents, medical, mental health, dental, hospital, Special Education, you name it. They just plain aren't going to take that chance. Don't do it if you can't do it without blinking though. You have to have a good poker face to pull it off. Make sure he's out of the house at school or with husband or something so he doesn't hear, and don't discuss it with husband where he might hear. [/QUOTE]
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