Sep 23 2009
Case CLOSED!
Our last visit from CPS was late July a few weeks before I was due. They actually knocked on my door a minute after my mom came through it with a cake for Danny’s birthday party to do a walk through. Seeing my mom was there, I got a chummy, “Oh! I’m sorry I see that you have a birthday party going on, I’ll be quick…” Excuse me if I missed the sincerity.
I still hold to my thoughts that they were trying to guestimate about when I was due so they could surprise me during the first week of newborn-dom.
He did his walk through and then stated they were waiting for the kids pediatrician to get back to them and that the case was still undetermined. This has been the wildcard term they have used the past few visits.
“The case is undertermined whether or not abuse and neglect is eminent…”
It’s like, what more can I give you? They require ridiculous shows of determination as a parent to PROVE Im worthy… shouldn’t they go on who you are naturally? Not by how high and far you can jump?
He said they were trying to close out the case by the end of the month and that if we dont hear from them it’s a ‘good thing’ (What? You think it’s a good thing to leave parents hanging on whether or not you are going to proceed to try and tear their family apart?). He also said that his manager was particularly picky and that if there is anything else she comes up with we would be getting a visit from them. Nice. More anal retentive OCD CPS agents- but this explains a lot, too.
He left waving, and I was left with thoughts of CPS agents showing up in my birthing postpartum room to take away my newborn. Friends scoff at me as if… “Come on Jyn, they wouldn’t do that, they couldnt do THAT…” but as many of you know, they do and they can.
Why? Who knows. In all honesty, who really KNOWS what brainwashing they have had done to them thinking they are saving the country of bad parenting because- government knows best how to raise our children right?
I received a letter last week (mid September) stating that they closed our case. What really got my goat was how they worded it. “We are required by law to inveswtigate any claims of abuse and although we saw signs of potential abuse and neglect we did not have enough evidence to prove that abuse and neglect was indeed occuring…”
Give me a break. If it wasn’t enough that they put me through half a year of HELL but they have to try and hold their own composure by wording it as if I was indeed guilty but that they were unable to build their case enough to follow through.
I’m still left scarred…. I have nightmares about my doorbell ringing and seeing his face still.
Emmalia's Birth
In the meantime I had a healthy baby girl August 6th via waterbirth. She was absolutely perfect and at a month old we’re constantly changing around our schedules to accommodate her nursing needs.
Emma 1 mo old
Also, Things couldn’t have happened at a better time. My washing machine is on it’s last legs and the laundry is piling up. Since it is managed via a computer inside, it gives me a fail error multiple times during loads. It takes a few hours just toget one load washed sometimes with the need to micromanage the cycles and finness it sometimes into another cycle mode just to unlock.
My laundry room
Of course everything is IN A HAMPER, it’s just overflowing now with a family of 8. I was just waiting for CPS to come and tell me how unacceptable the laundryroom was and how it was a danger to my kid’s lives.
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I left a comment for you over at Legally Kidnapped on the Walmart post but I wasn’t sure that you’d see it. I am so sorry for what hell you and your family were put through. There is no excuse. No excuse. It’s been years and I still get panicked when my doorbell rings. And I have to add that your house in those pictures is much cleaner than MINE!
That is the thing… there is no reason why I have to sweat and stress over keeping my house THIS CLEAN with 6 kids! This is what forces parents to neglect kids. Neglect the kids needs for time and love and cuddling- stories read to them, time to fly kites and go outside.
Instead parents are forced to scrub and clean and paint and wash in fear that CPS will take the kids.
My house has barely been dirtier since they came, and every social check has been “Well, we are deeming your case undetermined…” which is complete BS.
Think CPS can’t take your kids because a sink full of dishes? Sure they can. It’s all left up to the opinion of the agent. It’s all up to the law’s version of what shade of gray they want to enforce. Its all just plain wrong. And there is NO SPECIFIC documentation as far as what is considered unsanitary. Usually it means severe chance of harm, such as broken glass or things that might fall and kill a child- huge piles of garbage, etc. Trash bags in kid’s rooms because we are cleaning does NOT show a living hazard.
They even had to add “It’s unacceptable to ’store’ trash in your kid’s rooms…” and I’m thinking, Are you NUTS?