Our First Social Worker Visit

When a child is placed with you in Foster Care you have to do visits with both your social worker and the state’s social worker. Most of our visits came from our own social worker. She would drive up about every two weeks, to see how they boys were adjusting and if we had any problems or concerns. When our first visit came we were very concerned we really did not know how it was going to go. Steve was still rather shy and we hoped that all would go well. We thought we made good progress so far, we … Continue reading

The Redacted File

In Texas, families who are adopting children do not find out vital information about the child until just before the adoption is finalized. That put us at a distinct disadvantage. In the adoption process, a redacted file is one in which certain information is blacked out in order to preserve some legal right. For instance, if the state had been called out to investigate a home that a child was in, anything revealing the identity of the person that submitted the report to the state is blacked out to protect them. There was a lot of important information withheld from … Continue reading