So that is how I feel tonight
and will use that icon to get all my angst out tonight before my 9am hearing tomorrow where we decide if the children should be returned and when and how and so on. My clients aged 6, 4,almost 3 years old and 9 months are in two different foster homes.
They all have been through removal twice, well the baby only once, thank god. This is the second go round...we returned after Mom being in rehab for 9 months and she did well, we returned, 7 weeks later she is back to abusing drugs and tries to slit her wrists, in front of the kids of course. My 6 year old's client's most wrenching question today: "If we get taken away again, can we come back to this home"? Yup, 6 years old, knows she may go back home and does not trust Mom to keep it together and has seen 5 foster homes...seriously, I am considering breaking into superficial Entertainment Law because my soul cannot take this shit much longer.
They all have been through removal twice, well the baby only once, thank god. This is the second go round...we returned after Mom being in rehab for 9 months and she did well, we returned, 7 weeks later she is back to abusing drugs and tries to slit her wrists, in front of the kids of course. My 6 year old's client's most wrenching question today: "If we get taken away again, can we come back to this home"? Yup, 6 years old, knows she may go back home and does not trust Mom to keep it together and has seen 5 foster homes...seriously, I am considering breaking into superficial Entertainment Law because my soul cannot take this shit much longer.