Broken

[Christian Soldier]

My family is broken. The long story is that someone called the "hotline" and reported us. The charges appear to include being late on paperwork and maybe neglect. Maybe. You can't be too sure with people who are late on paper work. Our foster agency is telling us that CPS insists that our foster children be removed.

But it doesn't add up. Since when does CPS politely ask a foster family to please move the children somewhere else, as they have. Since when is it okay for the old family to know where the new family is? Forget taking them there. Am I making sense?

The short story, then, is that we had to take our foster kids to emergency respite care, with a new permanent placement to follow. All for a minor "intake" that most likely originated from our own agency. We are hurting so much right now, and working hard to get past it.

CPS' idea is that the investigation will take a while, and they refuse to leave the kids with us, so, by CPS Logic, time for a new home! Why not, wait for it! Leave the kids where they are and investigate from there. The foster parents need not even know that they are being investigated. But NO, best to move the kids and get everyone on with their lives. Not like the parents can't just get more after.

I'm not. This is it. I will not participate in a program that treats children like goods for sale. Yes, the kids need us, but when the system is this broken, when they callously move children with no regard for the children themselves. But, most of all, when the appearance of the agency comes before the welfare of the children, I am out.

We will keep out license active in the event that the kids become available again. Otherwise, I'm done.

Please pray for our kids, and us, that CPS wakes up and restores my family, and that the Lord God will comfort us all.

Thank you

[tris]

C.S.,
Praying for you and your family that the Lord will comfort and heal your hearts and protect the children. So sorry.

[metalikhan]

So very sorry for all your sakes, Glyn.
Praying God wraps each of you in His loving, healing, and protective embrace.

[Christian Soldier]

Thank you all. I am more and more certain that we have been betrayed. The complaint against us concerns compliance and minimum standards violations. In other words, we're not following all the rules, and some of our paperwork may be out of date. There are only a handful of people who could even know that, and they all work for our agency. Point blank:some one in our agency called the hotline and reported us. This isn't standard operating procedure. Nor is it SOP to remove kids from a home under these circumstances.

Again, we have been betrayed. And just like Judas, these are supposedly God-fearing people. Pah! These are not Christians, they do not care about children. All they care about are their precious ideals, ridiculous standards, and the mountain of paperwork that they have buried us in. There is no room for children in their lives.

CPS, as a whole, treats children as goods to be moved and placed, similar to how UPS or USPS operates. Are the goods safe? How quickly was the reporting completed, concerning these goods? How are the goods stored?

Questions that are not asked: Are the children happy? Are they loved? Are they cared for? What is their quality of life? I used to think my foster agency wasn't like that, but... I've seen them target people before, and that person is still broken and damaged, and I don't know what happened to her child.

Pray for the souls of those who have wronged me. I always pray for my enemies, for He is so much better at revenge than I am, and I will not rob Him of it. Mind you, there are people there who really do care about the kids. I can give you their names, their biographies. Then there are others who, obviously, do not.

God help them. God rest their Souls.

-the previous rant brought to you by: CS!-

[MattB]

CS,
May the Lord comfort you and your family. And the children are always watched over by Him. He is a Great God we serve. In His name, all can come together.

[fluke]

Prayers are with you CS. I can imagine the grief just at having the children taken, but to be betrayed and by someone professing Christ. That goes beyond "a terrible thing" to "terrible beyond words."

[Kristen]

Wow. Words are insufficient to mourn this kind of injustice. Praying the only way I know how…HIs will be done…

[Christian Soldier]

We finally talked to the CPS investigator today. Unbelievable. I'm thinking, they pulled the kids, the allegations must be pretty severe. I kept picturing doomsday cults with child sacrifice. Nope. They wanted to know about my soon to be son in law and some comments that he had made. And, of course, the children like to act out sexually from time to time. This has severely reduced over the last year. Oh, and we can't get the kids back until licensing finishes, which could be as long as 60 days from now... The kids will be in another placement long before then, and we do not have standing to try and sue for them.

I am in severe pain, emotionally, but, getting better. We have plans in place to get Jamie a good job from inside the home. It will earn enough to let us keep our house. I want to focus on my family for a while, before trying to take on more kids, assuming I ever do. I just get too attached to keep bonding and letting go of kids. I just... can't.

Thank you everyone, and may God bless you

[stormiel]

So sorry to hear that. You will all be in my prayers.

[Teskas]

Sorry to read about this, Glyn. You are in my prayers.

[Christian Soldier]

At this point, I'm at a loss. We can have our kids back, eventually, but... there are factors inside my home that prevent me from being able to allow them to come home. My heart is so empty right now, and my depression gets a little worse every day. Please... please pray

[beckyminor]

Continuing to pray for you, CS, that the Lord will send a shaft of his light into the darkness of your deepening depression and bear you up under this terrible emotional load. You have been strong through this very long battle, and I can understand how after a while, it just gets to be too much. May you find peace in resting on God's arms in this difficult time--and may his justice be done with regards to the situation with the agency. And of course, may the children, the most vulnerable victims in the whole mess, be shielded by God's mercy. Praying for you!

[metalikhan]

Prayers continuing, Glyn.
Trials that drag on for months (or years) can be so exhausting, so disheartening. We just have to cling that much harder to the Father and trust His will in the matter is perfect even when resolutions don't happen as quickly or in the way we want them to happen.
Chin up, soldier, as you endure. Deliverance through this is already being orchestrated.

[Christian Soldier]

It gets a little better every day. I guess it just surprised me that I would have to face this, largely, alone. Thanks everyone for your prayers