Comments on: Would I do this again? Ricky part One Million or something. http://fost-adopt.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/would-i-do-this-again-ricky-part-million News and information for those planning to adopt through foster care as well as firsthand accounts of those who have. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:12:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michelle Vandepas http://fost-adopt.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/would-i-do-this-again-ricky-part-million/comment-page-1#comment-19 Michelle Vandepas Wed, 31 May 2006 20:53:36 +0000 http://foster-adopt.www.adoptionblogs.com/2006/05/28/would-i-do-this-again-ricky-part-million#comment-19 Thanks for the comment Kinship mom. I wish it were that simple. Mom will never give up her child and he will never be up for adoption. Homelessness and bad parenting is not the same as abuse and neglect. he wouldn't have gone into foster care, he would have gone to a neighbors house, or a friend of a friend or somewhere else. In good conscious I couldn't let him go to 'strangers' - someone Mom picked up from somewhere - when we could take him.<br /> <br /> If I thought there was any chance he'd be adoptable or in long term foster I'd go for that.<br /> <br /> Even our caseworker at our agency interviewed us and the MOM together before we took him, and said that he'd probably not go back into foster unless MOM went back on drugs. She's been clean three years now, and I hope stays that way.. <br /> <br /> Thanks for the comment Kinship mom. I wish it were that simple. Mom will never give up her child and he will never be up for adoption. Homelessness and bad parenting is not the same as abuse and neglect. he wouldn’t have gone into foster care, he would have gone to a neighbors house, or a friend of a friend or somewhere else. In good conscious I couldn’t let him go to ’strangers’ – someone Mom picked up from somewhere – when we could take him.

If I thought there was any chance he’d be adoptable or in long term foster I’d go for that.

Even our caseworker at our agency interviewed us and the MOM together before we took him, and said that he’d probably not go back into foster unless MOM went back on drugs. She’s been clean three years now, and I hope stays that way..

]]> By: KinshipMom http://fost-adopt.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/would-i-do-this-again-ricky-part-million/comment-page-1#comment-18 KinshipMom Wed, 31 May 2006 20:09:45 +0000 http://foster-adopt.www.adoptionblogs.com/2006/05/28/would-i-do-this-again-ricky-part-million#comment-18 Perhaps by taking Ricky every time his mom has a problem you are enabling her, and keeping Ricky out of the foster care system and diminishing his long-term options of finding a permanent, loving home. Just a thought. Perhaps by taking Ricky every time his mom has a problem you are enabling her, and keeping Ricky out of the foster care system and diminishing his long-term options of finding a permanent, loving home. Just a thought.

]]> By: HeatherK http://fost-adopt.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/would-i-do-this-again-ricky-part-million/comment-page-1#comment-17 HeatherK Mon, 29 May 2006 07:37:20 +0000 http://foster-adopt.www.adoptionblogs.com/2006/05/28/would-i-do-this-again-ricky-part-million#comment-17 Whew! You are both saints.. Whew! You are both saints..

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