Today, I learned that CPS still won't take my sister's kids away from her, even though they are living in literal squalor and filth. They run away to my house all the time and I constantly have to give them back. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, CPS came to my door because they found out that I didn't report it when my sister abandoned her kids on my doorstep. They're telling me that I'm going to have to take them down to the foster care center and go through the proper channels if I want to keep them. FML
Today, my late sister's kids are in separate foster homes and I was told I can't have custody of them because I'm not a resident of their state (California). I can't afford to live there. FML
Today, my sister in law threatened to call CPS on me because I “starved” her children when they spent the night. I didn’t starve them. I made an actual home cooked meal instead of the microwaveable or fast food crap she constantly feeds them. They chose not to eat and threw tantrums instead. FML
Today, my sister is upset that I won’t upturn my entire life by letting her kids stay at my house 4-5 days a week. She decided to move in with her boyfriend after one month, before even introducing him to her kids. Now he’s decided he doesn’t like the kids, so she wants me to keep them. FML
Today, I'm being called despicable, cruel, and heartless because I refused to take in my deceased sister's four kids, which resulted in them being put in separate foster homes. I'm 20, live in a tiny studio apartment, and attend college and work full-time. FML
Today, after an emergency, my sister’s kids had to spend the night at my house. While I was asleep, they absolutely trashed my place top to bottom. In the morning my sister came in, said, “Wow, what a mess! Bye!” without offering to help clean up or make her kids do it. They drew on my dog. FML
Today, my kids' mother, who has been absent and living in a different state for over 12 years, sent a children services worker to my house with a long list of allegations, even though she's 25k behind in support, rather than try to build a normal relationship with her kids in any kind of healthy way. FML
Today, I found my sister online after over a year of no contact. Our other sister framed her, getting our parents to kick out and disown her. Her childhood sweetheart and his mom took her in, and is now living a life of luxury with them abroad, while we live off government checks, which BARELY cover bare basics. FML
Today, I confronted my sister for teaching her kids “extreme independence”. It’s really just code for doing the absolute bare minimum required by law to keep them out of foster care so she can spend every waking moment with her new boyfriend. If I cut her out, I’ll never see my nephews again. FML
Today, my parents are calling me a spoilt brat and threatening to disown me if I don't let my sister, her six kids, and freshly out of jail boyfriend move into the house I spent 10 years working my ass off to buy without having a mortgage. Sis said I can sleep on the lounge as long as I pay rent. FML
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DLBL 23
If it is truly "Squalor" you might contact the Health Department in you area. Maybe they can do something.
49_Donuts 15
Call CPS every time the kids run away to you. Eventually CPS will have to do something
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DLBL 23
If it is truly "Squalor" you might contact the Health Department in you area. Maybe they can do something.
49_Donuts 15
Call CPS every time the kids run away to you. Eventually CPS will have to do something
tiptoppc 21
Unfortunately, CPS these days have opted more to keep kids with parents and try to get the parents resources to make the environment better if it’s possible to do because the trauma of being taken away from your parents can sometimes be long lasting. Thus they tried to keep them together as much as possible, and now with the constraint of resources they know that if they take away the kids, it’s gonna put extra resource strain on the system will not doing anything for the kids or the parents and they’re kind of stuck between a hard place and a rock. If you’re gonna help them out, you’re gonna have to have something like pictures to show how bad it is something that shows how dangerous it is for them to live in the home that makes it better for them to take the kids as in an imminent danger for the kids if it really is that bad. Now let’s just say the house is covered in kids toys and maybe the laundry isn’t done that’s not squalid. But if the kids aren’t able to eat diapers, aren’t being able to be changed or many dirty ones laying around the house creating a biological hazard followed by maybe things like certain things available like sharp items bad electrical stuff anything that can hurt them then that’s a bit different. Many times they can either help with a resource resources such as helping them get things like food or other childcare items or maybe a consultant to come in and help them make the house better that is considered resources better spent but you may not know that if they’re even working with them simply because or I’ve offered without being the ones involved. That said it takes time to set that up and immediately taking kids away, already starts to damage if they haven’t got services set up and it takes longer to get the kids back in the home even with the services being delayed, but there are more likely going to want to delay and hopefully get services before something happens, but a lot of this is based on financial funding as well as overloaded case managers Sorry about run-on sentences. It’s being transcribed right now. Carpal tunnel sucks.