Might have been 2.0
After we had gone through all the licensing and homestudy and all with the county social services, we had two children we were asked to consider before B.J.
In the world of CPS, the social workers have what is called a "staffing". When a child is moved in permanancy planning from reuinification to an adoption plan, the child's social worker holds a meeting with all the social workers(sw) for prospective adoptive parentspap). The pap sw bring the profile books that we made and they sit around a conference table and discuss which family would be best for the child. The child's sw will have made a list of characteristics she is looking for. Paps learn to read between the lines on these things when they are listed on waiting children's websites. "should be the youngest child in the home" or "no pets" means the child has some aggressive acting out behaviours that could be dangerous to younger children and pets. Sometimes it is more a reflection of the sw bias on some issue - such as two parent family or stay at home mom. Though that is not supposed to happen, there are ways to justify it.
The first situation was when our sw asked if we wanted to be presented on a three year old little girl. She had been brought into ER when she was 18 months old with several broken bones, xrays showed previous fractures healed untreated. The child had been in foster care since. We said yes. We were not selected.
In the world of CPS, the social workers have what is called a "staffing". When a child is moved in permanancy planning from reuinification to an adoption plan, the child's social worker holds a meeting with all the social workers(sw) for prospective adoptive parentspap). The pap sw bring the profile books that we made and they sit around a conference table and discuss which family would be best for the child. The child's sw will have made a list of characteristics she is looking for. Paps learn to read between the lines on these things when they are listed on waiting children's websites. "should be the youngest child in the home" or "no pets" means the child has some aggressive acting out behaviours that could be dangerous to younger children and pets. Sometimes it is more a reflection of the sw bias on some issue - such as two parent family or stay at home mom. Though that is not supposed to happen, there are ways to justify it.
The first situation was when our sw asked if we wanted to be presented on a three year old little girl. She had been brought into ER when she was 18 months old with several broken bones, xrays showed previous fractures healed untreated. The child had been in foster care since. We said yes. We were not selected.
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