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no_hypocrisy

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2. Children all together, safe.
Tue May 29, 2012, 07:05 AM
May 2012

Here's the rub. They've been in foster care for more than three years with a move up on middle class amenities like a pool in the back yard, fun trips, all the food they can eat, etc.

The foster parents "put in a bid" to adopt one month after the kids arrived.

We know the kids have been coached and "out of the blue", they profess that they want to be adopted, notwithstanding their mother has never missed a visit with them, bringing them food and presents each time. They understand they will never see their mother again. Their answers are uniform and exaggerated. It's that obvious.

Again, should a mother who's also the victim of domestic violence be deemed an unfit parent? If the premise is that she'll never be able to move anywhere, never be able to take appropriate measures to "protect" her children from their father, does that doom her? (BTW, this mother will live 700+ miles away from her abuser and he has neither transportation nor money to come to her geographical region.)

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