Hello All. I will not say my name or the names of my children but my children are in foster care for the second time. I will be the first to say that when they were taken the first time they needed to be protected and I was not capable of doing that. I was an addict for 17 years and was not on the right road. I have to say that I was angry and very uncooporative in the beginning. I got my kids back after 2 years of hard work on my part. I took parenting classes and did treatment then my kids were returned. Now 1 1/2 years later when my case was suppose to be closed I was told it was not. Then someone made a phone call and my kids were taken. They did not even investigate the alligations before they took my kids they just took them. They still have not concluded their investigation and my children are still in foster care. I feel that it is unfair to take my kids without a proper investigation after I worked so hard to get them back. I did everything they asked me to do and more but they still think that I am in the wrong. I am now clean for almost three years but they are saying I am using. I am stable, have my own home and go to school but they say that I am mentally unstable. They are saying that I can not protect my children and that they are emotionally neglected but they have improved, according to their teachers, ten folds. When my children came home my 10 year old talked like she was 5 and my 9 year old pooped on himself now 1 1/2 years later they do neither. They have been in foster care three weeks and they are already reverting back to that time in their lives. But I am the one doing the damage. When I say they I am refering to CPS. CPS in my opinion is holding a grudge from my previous case and therefore can not and have not been objective in this new more recent case. I agree that some families do not and can not deserve another chance but I have not done anything that would deserve this kind of action and my children are the ones who are suffering because of it. They are now going to spend the holidays in someone else's home instead of at home where they belong. I hope that other families have better luck than I did because it is hard without my kids. I love and miss them more than anything in this world. God Bless all those who are spending the holidays without their children but really want to. I know your pain and suffer from it myself. It is my belief that God will bring my children home and I pray for that daily.