http://nccpr.blogspot.com/2009/12/applying-goldman-standard-to-foster.html
The above link is to an article that I found SO very interesting!
I am quite happy that this man has his son back. I am saddened that it took so VERY long and SAD that this is NOT what happens every day in America when relatives FIGHT CPS or State Adoptions for THEIR nephews (relatives)!
Even if the child lives with you for the first 10 months of his life (along with his mother),
then they move out of town,
he is detained at 17 months of age,
within hours YOU contact CPS and request both temporary & permanent placement,
YOU follow up with WRITTEN request,
YOU send history & medical information for his welfare to agency,
YOU keep calling & sending letters, gifts, photos, etc.,
YOU request an application,
THEY take 7 months to approve you for relative placement,
THEY never notify you of rights & court dates,
YOU ask for visits,
YOU drive multiple times (12 hrs. one way) for visits & court,
YOU retain an attorney,
YOU ask what ELSE you can do to receive placement,
THEY place child in fost/adopt home,
THEY don't tell court OR minor's counsel about YOU at ALL,
YOUR attorney notifies court & minor's counsel you EXIST,
NEPHEW'S PARENTS ask to sign over rights to YOU to adopt,
THEY deny, stall, lie............FOR MONTHS (5 months denying FAMILY CODE 8700(f)),
YOU ask for an application for an adoptive home study,
THEY DENY you one,
YOU track down nearest State Adoptions and ask for application,
THEY (Fresno;) allow you to apply!!! ;) ,
THEY (Fresno;) approve your adoptive home study,
THEY frustrate visitation and PERJURE themselves in court,
THEY finally allow PARENTS to sign their designated relinqishments 8700(f),
YOU complain to their superiors & ombudsman,
THEY mostly ignore you,
THEY name you PAP's (Prospective Adoptive Parents),
YOU watch in court as they SAY they signed assessment but don't AGREE with it,
THEY keep child with foster parents,
APPEALs are filed,
APPEAL is won in our FAVOR & published,
THEY STILL keep nephew and frustrate visits...........
...........to be continued!!!!!!
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