I am a volunteer Guardian ad Litem. What that means is I am a voice/advocate for children in the Court system. I am on my very first case now and it is slowly coming to an end. I have visited two children every month for the past 8 months. A 3 year old boy and his sister who is 1 1/2. They are in two separate foster homes. I found out this week that they are returning home to their mother.
Now, as great as that is....this still makes me a little sad.
This by far seems to be one of the hardest things I have ever done. As happy and proud I am of the mother for taking the right and proper steps to get her children back it still saddens me that they will leave their wonderful foster parents. I know that foster homes are just temporary but the fact that they have to leave a place where I know they are being taking care of and has a family that loves them, makes this difficult for me to say its "OK" for them to go home to a mother who at one point neglected her children.
I know we all make mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance, but this is very tough for me to handle. But, what can you say/do when the mother has done everything she can and has to do to get her children back? That she does not deserve a second chance? That she does not deserve her children back? She is fighting harder than most moms out there and I am very proud of her. But is that enough? Well, I have to believe so....because we all do deserve second chances in life and I just have to have faith that she will continue to do well.
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Most mothers would do anything for their children. Maybe her children getting taken away was a wake up call. Sometimes that's all it takes.
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this is all part of life...it does tug at your heartstrongs...but remember you are a bridge...M
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