Tag: foster
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September 21, 2007 11:56 AM EDT --
I adopted a little girl who was closer to a dog than a person. She had been abused horribly. She was full of literal holes all over her body, hair hair was brillo and falling out, and her teeth . . . more
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December 01, 2007 10:15 PM EST --
In rush men, carrying guns. The only family you have ever known is pushed around, handcuffed and taken out of your home. How can they do this? No wonder mommie and daddy said not to trust the cops.
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January 22, 2008 10:02 PM EST --
One day in sixth grade, one of her friends told our youngest daughter that he was having an awful time. He went on to say that life was miserable because his parents were getting a divorce and he just . . . more
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November 19, 2006 07:18 PM EST --
Missy had urinated on my carpeting. Straight through her clothes. I had nothing small enough to fit her from my older daughter and my youngest daughter's clothes would have been way to tiny. I corrected . . . more
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December 18, 2007 10:39 PM EST --
To make a long story short: our three children came to us by adoption; they have other biological siblings that were in foster care and never adopted; they have other biological siblings that were in . . . more
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November 18, 2006 10:30 PM EST --
(All names have been changed to protect the innocence of this child). Missy was 3 years old when she became a foster child to my friend, Suzzie and her husband Bob. Missy was the youngest of five children, . . . more
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September 26, 2006 12:44 PM EDT --
It was not until I was 32 that I met my two sisters. As noted in previous articles, we were, along with three brothers, taken from our parents when I was 2 years old. Thus, it was an entirely new experience . . . more
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October 29, 2007 12:11 AM EDT --
When I first got her, she was a mess. She was such a mess with her hair falling out, her teeth rotted, and she had picked all the skin off her feet, hands, and head. I fell so in love with . . . more
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April 04, 2008 05:16 PM EDT --
Were you adopted? Or have you adopted children? I would really love to do this someday... and was wondering what advice you might have.
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June 11, 2008 10:07 AM EDT --
My husband and I went to see this movie in the cheap theater the other day, and I thought I would tell you good people about it.
Nim is a little girl who lives with her scientist father on a . . . more
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October 25, 2006 01:08 AM EDT --
Tonight I am thankful for our local scoutmaster, Tim. He is very good with young boys (NO JOKES) and they believe and trust him.
At tonight's scout meeting, some of the boys came to him and told him . . . more
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March 16, 2007 06:19 AM EDT --
This is the family who fostered my maternal grandfather, Andrew Lee Chafin, Sr., when he was a child. In fact, he might be one of the small boys present in the picture. Anyone want to venture . . . more
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July 25, 2007 02:25 PM EDT --
It's been one of those crazy months. I still have the two step-kids, the two ex-step kids and of course I'm still my aunt's guardian. We still have our three foster-to-adopt daughters. . . . more
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October 05, 2007 07:12 PM EDT --
My last five cats were adopted out and then I was away for a month. As soon as I got back I got in touch with my Rescue organization. I know they are always swamped. Sure enough they just got in two adorable . . . more
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April 17, 2008 12:28 AM EDT --
Where do I begin. Well I have to give you a little background story first. My in laws (who are now 70 and 71 years old) raised their grandson because their daughter died at a young age and his father didn't . . . more
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October 01, 2006 08:44 PM EDT --
For the majority of my social services career, I was involved in the licensing of foster homes, emergency shelters and group homes in accordance with specific rules, laws and standards. One of these regulations . . . more
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February 01, 2008 07:11 PM EST --
In the middle of November, a woman my son knows was evicted from her apartment while she was in the hospital. My son put the woman's belongings in a storage unit and he asked me if I could keep . . . more
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April 02, 2007 02:35 AM EDT --
A Southern California mother, Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick, filed a lawsuit against Child Protective Services (CPS). She claimed caseworkers had unjustly taken her children in February 2000. The children were . . . more
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October 10, 2007 01:28 AM EDT --
This time each year I think about children in foster care. I think what they must feel like to think no one wants them. In Oklahoma there are 16,000 children in foster care waiting . . . more
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February 08, 2008 02:34 AM EST --
Of all the strange surrogate mother stories I've heard over the years, I doubt if I've seen one more bizarre than this one, that began with the December 26, 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, when . . . more
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