I wondered how other Foster Carers cope when 'the system' very badly fails the children they are trying to protect. When not only us but all SWs, schools, medics and other professionals know it is not, or ever can be, right for a child to be returned to the parents - but somehow, by a tiny legal technicality they are. Obviously I cannot explain the exact circumstances, but it is so heartbreaking to look at this little boy, knowing his future now is so bleak, and that we have to let him go and be returned to basically hell. I know the SWs feel the same way, but no one can do anything about it. It is just so wrong.
I have to say it is not that we are particularly attached to this little one, we were working towards moving him onto an adoptive family and perfectly content just to have him for a short while. But now that it is not possible and any hope of a chance at a happy childhood is now gone.
Sorry, I know there is no real answer or reply, just wanted to rant. I am just so disillusioned, and so sad a child who was just beginning to emerge from the horrors of his past, will now be returned to it. And there is nothing anyone can do.
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yellowribbons · 20/04/2014 12:02
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