The biological mother was following her reunification plan, she has a job and a place to live but now she has her new husband who also had to follow the reunification plan. When her and her new husband got together is when the mother started to miss appointments. She missed a counseling session then she missed a visitation. If the roles were reversed I cannot imagine anything being more important than visiting with my baby, but I am never going to be in that situation.
It is really annoying when we drive the 70 miles to the visitation and the biological mother does not show up. The only plus is that it is hurting her chances of reunification. With each and every thing that she does it is lessening the likelihood that she will have any contact with Rebecca in the future and that makes me feel better. The biological mother did not call CPS with an explanation as to why she was a no call no show to the visit with Rebecca. During the scheduled visitation, that she missed, we had a chance to visit with the case worker about her future plans for Rebecca and the biological mother.
We were told that the biological mother had missed a few counseling sessions and was no longer employed. These were two big conditions of her reunification plan, she had also been told not to miss any visitations unless she notified them ahead of time. With all these conditions not being met by her and the fact that her new husband was not even attempting to do his part of the reunification plan the time was getting close for the case workers to have a heart to heart with her. They were going to talk with her about relinquishing her parental rights at the next meeting. This was good news for us but I sincerely doubt that she will do that. Why would she Rebecca is worth fighting for!