by Wendy Owen

Created on: February 26, 2009

Corruption in child welfare and community social service agencies is becoming a popular problem in today's society and the ones who suffer the greatest from this problem is the children who are forced to be under their thumb and have these people in their daily lives. There is really no way to deal with these people they do as they please and lie and manipulate the system worse than people who are just trying to make things right for their babies. The child welfare system today does more harm than good and they need to be dismantled.

I have a grandchild in the system, my son did not know that he had fathered this child until she was already in the system. My son had to force the court to take a D.N.A. test and they determined that he in fact was the father and we were all overjoyed only to be let down by the fact that the child had been in the system for over a year and they were refusing to take her away from the foster home that she was in. I had to fight for seven years and she was finally brought to my home to live and was honestly taken away the very next day. I was broken, that is the only word that I can think of to describe how I feel. They had taken the child away from me saying that she needed to be placed in the same home as her half sister so I was forced to give my grand daughter away after spending only one day with her in her whole seven years of life.

The new foster mother refuses to let me speak to my grand child. Only a week after my grand daughter was taken to their home to stay the child sister committed an illegal act and was placed in a mental institution and the agency still will not let me have my grand child back. They say they do not want to make her move so many times in a one year period. This system here is not about doing what is right for the child, it's about catering to who can tell the largest lie. All about who is related to who and who can kiss their butts the best.

This is why I say there is no way to deal with these people. To me they are not human and they do not love. My grand daughter is now on medication because they are saying she is slow and she is not slow at all. The reason I am fought so much is because I am in a different county, way on the other side of the state. If this child was moved that county would no longer have such a large role in her life. Just stay away from them at all costs. There is no dealing with them.

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