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- Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:23 am
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Spanking....
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1572
Spanking....
Let me know how everyone thinks i do believe in spanking as punishment(with the hand and leaving no marks).
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:16 am
- Forum: Have Faith and Be Strong
- Topic: Prayer Needed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1141
I know exactly how you feel.. When they took our children in 2004 it was supposed to be only for a few weeks til the investigation wa over. In reality it took 2 1/2 years to get our kids back and another 6 months before our case was finally closed for good and the Gestapo was finally out of our live...
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:08 am
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Recusal
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1235
- Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:38 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: MY VIDEO
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1200
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:42 am
- Forum: CPS Investigations
- Topic: My CPS story is featured some in Readers Digest
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3165
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:53 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: we survived
- Replies: 1
- Views: 473
we survived
I got this in email and my first thought was how a caseworker would view all of this as some kind of abuse or neglect! TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, at...
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:16 pm
- Forum: Happy Endings
- Topic: our son is coming home
- Replies: 2
- Views: 801
- Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:35 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: Bizarre feeling....
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3529
I know exactly how you feel Jackie. The last foster parents my kids were with were wonderful and even today we talk to them on the phone and get together with them they all even volunteered to babysit for us when we need it. One even calls to take the kids for a day when there has been long breaks f...
- Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:26 pm
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: foster parent hindering reunification
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1213
We also had a few sets of foster parents who tried to keep us from our kids. the first decided that canceling the visits would keep them away so we went to the supervisor and the children were moved to the second set who tried through the courts to lie to the judge and forced our oldest to write a l...
- Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:23 am
- Forum: Happy Endings
- Topic: finally our 3 year ordeal is over
- Replies: 2
- Views: 827
finally our 3 year ordeal is over
We went to court yesterday and finally after 3 years our case was closed by the judge. This was without a doubt the sweetest words we have ever heard. Thank you to all on this site for the help and support, Thank you to Linda for building this site. I am by no means going to leave the site and will ...
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:15 am
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: counter productive
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3458
i agree that arguing is counter productive but i also agree that different opinions are necessary when presented in the right way. Linda i also want to thank you so much for this site. I truly believe if i hadn't learned my rights from this site i would still be trying to please CPS and waiting for ...
- Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:42 am
- Forum: Temp. Guardianship
- Topic: Question about Guardianship
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1316
Question about Guardianship
Since full legal custody and guardianship has been returned to us can we now do a temp guardianship to prevent our children from going back into fostercare should DCFS decide to attack us again?
- Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:40 am
- Forum: Happy Endings
- Topic: Sort of a happy ending
- Replies: 1
- Views: 585
Sort of a happy ending
We went to court on tuesday morning and at court the Judge returned guardianship and full legal custody with 3 months supervision by DCFS. so i guess its the beginning of the end. Finally some light at the end of this long and terrible tunnel. Thank you everyone for the advice and support through th...
- Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:36 pm
- Forum: CPS Investigations
- Topic: CPS sloppiness and family court obedience
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1408
I just learned the Judge that has had our case for 3 years has been arrested for giving alcohol to minors! and has now been reassigned so this means we will now be seeing a new judge unfamiliar with or case......this could be good or bad. We have court on september 19th and now im more nervous than ...
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:04 am
- Forum: CPS Investigations
- Topic: Need help for a friend
- Replies: 2
- Views: 745
Need help for a friend
My neighbor has just been told that she cannot watch her grandchildren alone because of an abuse claim against her yet she says she has never been investigated. how can she go about finding out when and why these allegations were launched? i have given her the advocacy office number but im not sure ...
- Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:31 am
- Forum: CPS Investigations
- Topic: EXPUNGMENT/EXPUNGE YOUR NAME IF YOU GET YOUR CHILD/REN BACK
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17658
How to Expunge a DCFS Indicated Report
http://www.illinoislegalaid.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.dsp_content&contentID=1408 The only way to expunge an Indicated Report from the DCFS (Department of Children & Family Services) is through the agency's internal appeal process. What does the term “indicated” mean in a child abuse repo...
- Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:18 am
- Forum: Websites
- Topic: Child Abuse: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
- Replies: 0
- Views: 457
- Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:09 am
- Forum: Websites
- Topic: Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Replies: 0
- Views: 430
- Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:53 am
- Forum: Legal Research
- Topic: What Parents Should Know When Someone Calls DCFS On Them
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1521
- Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:50 am
- Forum: In the News
- Topic: FIRST LADY PATTI BLAGOJEVICH JOINS DCFS .....
- Replies: 0
- Views: 450
FIRST LADY PATTI BLAGOJEVICH JOINS DCFS .....
IN SUPPORT OF ILLINOIS CELEBRATES ADOPTION AND NATIONAL ADOPTION DAY CHICAGO —First Lady Patti Blagojevich and the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services teamed up today to honor Illinois adoptive families and newly adopted children at the third annual Illinois Celebrates Adoption day. Ill...
- Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:42 am
- Forum: In the News
- Topic: Child abuse registry continues
- Replies: 0
- Views: 532
Child abuse registry continues
http://www.nospank.net/n-l30r.htm Despite being ruled unconstitutional last week, Missouri's system for registering the names of probable child abusers will stay in effect pending a new law or a possible appeal. Beyond that, no one knows for certain what will become of Missouri's child abuse centra...
- Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:04 pm
- Forum: Juvenile Court
- Topic: Child protetction court guidelines for lawyers
- Replies: 6
- Views: 997
- Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:21 pm
- Forum: Newcomers - Welcome to the site - please sign in here
- Topic: Help me please I am being falsely accused of child abuse
- Replies: 51
- Views: 6957
- Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:23 am
- Forum: Round Table
- Topic: A very sad story
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1952
she must be very careful ...our children were only supposed to be gone for about a month while we made improvements on our home at the time but within that month they found many services to put into place to complete before the time was up it took us 2 1/2 years to finally get our kids home. and of ...
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:38 pm
- Forum: Happy Endings
- Topic: Finally our nightmare has a happy ending
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2440
Finally our nightmare has a happy ending
Our Daughters are coming home tomorrow evening finally an end to the hell of not being able to kiss my kids goodnight everynight. Our son has been home for a month and is doing great!! Hopefully this happens for our girls too although after 2 1/2 years of being seperated im a little scared and nervo...