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The older sister was not interested in seeking help for her younger sister were trying to find a way to work things out. So this young girl was removed once again from a place she called home and this time without her younger brother. At this point she is placed back into foster care and was placed in my home. My foster daughter was pulled out of school every Friday in the middle of the day to spend two hours getting to and from a two hour visit (yes that is a total of four hours). I have never seen a child tormented more by a visit to this child was. She spent two hours each week watching her brother living in a home that she wanted to be in knowing she would never live there again. The parental rights had already been terminated for a long while but the weekly two hour visits continued. This child ended up unable to deal with this and had an emotion break down which landed her in a psychiatric hospital. After she spent over a week there, she was placed in a long term treatment facility.

I do understand that in a lot of situations that is best for the foster child to continue visits even after the rights have terminated. I do not believe it should be two hours weekly and should continue if it is harming the child in anyway. The real sad things about this was the caseworker decide (this has CPS not the courts choice) to continue the visits with the family. Why make the choice to benefit the parent and not the child?

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“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.”
Elbert Hubbard