Hi Edward.
I live in Florida and am still involved with Department of Children & Families. Many other agencies brought into it as well.
I have 2 case workers, and have been to court 4 times and this case isn't closed yet. Hopefully it will be in April :)
I understand your frustration. It is very time consuming yes indeed. Yes , the set up a long laundry list to help you and your children to become better parents, giving ones who accept it a more stable life family life..

Now imagine if you got involved in the TASK PLAN , that's what it is called. And you were the parent that that had been proven to be fit. I am that person.
My Ex and I had shared custody and the kids pretty much stayed where they wanted, which was mostly at my house. I would say 80 % my house, 20 % at their Dad's house which he and I still own TOGETHER...I know strange divorce but that was the judges decision. He allowed the Father to stay in the house to create stability for my two kids. Ex was told he can not remarry and stay in the house, it would then revert back to me or we put it up for sale. I am now pushing for the sale. It's worth over 600,000. But I am getting way off the topic, so let me return to Department of Children and Families. .
Their Father decided he wanted to be a single man and run the street and bar hop all night. Then he decided he would start relations with strippers and take them to my childrens home. There were nights when the kids were at his house..during school months, so they could remain in their school that the had been going to ..no change in their life style kinda of thing. But as it ended up I was becoming a taxi service getting them back and forth to school. So many nights they would call me and say Mom we don't have anything to eat for dinner. And either I would go buy them groceries or send a pizza and soda over for a quick fix. I had suspected drug use for some time.

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the past will reflect what a person has done with the child and records will show how the child was treated being with his parents. in my case it was told of me of the children suffering out of neglect. it was they way how we lived as me and the x wife as a parent. it was mainly mismanagement of money that caused the neglect
we some times become to selfishly spending what we need then to try to look out for the child. but in my case the money was handed down to the wife who I was married to at the time. she wanted to be responsible for paying the bills like any one women. but she had failed to do what she really needed with it
only paid half and spent the rest. I was not perfect but she never stayed long enough to be there with the children to help be there. I was told by some one who had came in to help us on raising children that you don't slap them you just discipline them by telling them to go in ur room and think about what you did was wrong" or if my child cried to send him in and stay there until he had stopped his crying . I was by my self most of the time with the two boys as the daughter was across the road with her grand mother. My uncle
had told me that I was not the blame of some of the things that had happen to me that her family had blamed me for.

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