[Blindtlk] child protection services update and other issues

Thu Mar 8 20:39:34 CST 2007

ray, we don't want to move. I'm not prepared for this. cps is forceing it 
upon us

josh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Foret Jr." <rforetjr at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] child protection services update and other issues

> Josh, I have taken the liberty of sending your messages along to Dr. and 
> Mr.
> Maurer.  As you see from a message I sent you this morning, Mrs. Maurer 
> has
> made some contacts on your behalf with NFB people who are more local to 
> you.
> IF you have a cell phone, you can still take my advice and that of the
> others here.  We'll back you all the way on this one.
>
> Hang in there.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> The Constantly Barefooted,
> Ray
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> God bless President George W. Bush!
> God bless our troops!
> and God bless America
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cindy Handel" <cindy425 at verizon.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] child protection services update and other issues
>
>
> Josh,
>
> Did you get in touch with someone at the National Center, to ask for help?
> If so, they should know all about what has happened, today.
>
> Cindy
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>; "NFBnet 
> Blind
> Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:19 PM
> Subject: [Blindtlk] child protection services update and other issues
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Ok, Here's what happened today. We went to the hospital and Aaron was
> discharged and allowed to go home with us. But now we have a new problem.
> And the problem is that my wife's dad has had issues in the past 
> concerning
> cps. Therefore, cps told us that we cannot live with them and that he can
> only have supervised visits with our child. So, we called my wife's mom's
> mom or my wife's grandmother and asked to move in with her down the 
> street.
> And cps approved that. So now they're moving a lot of our stuff, but not 
> all
> to her grandmother's house. So, first they threaten to take our child away
> and then they force us to move out against our will because my wife's dad
> has a history with cps. Now, here's where the other issue comes in. In 
> this
> house, in my mother-in-law's house where the computers are, where my 
> wife's
> dad lives and my wife's mom lives, even if my wife's dad wanted to do
> something to the child it would be nearly impossible because he is 
> severely
> disabled due to an accident which happened a few years ago. My wife and I
> live in an apartment downstairs. And the baby will be downstairs mostly 
> with
> us. And when he is upstairs, he will be with us. Now, if we move in to my
> wife's grandmother's house, we won't have the computers to use to write
> articles with, and take surveys. Writing articles and taking online 
> surveys
> is currently our only way to earn a little extra money on the side of what
> we get with SSI which isn't very much. My wife and I don't appreciate 
> being
> forced to move against our will, leaving behind the only tools that keep 
> our
> minds occupied during the day, entertain us, and make it possible to earn 
> a
> bit of extra cash each month. Nor do we want our child taken away. They 
> said
> if we don't cooperate they'll take our child. Well, the cps caseworker
> called and said we've been cooperative so far. And you know what's 
> happening
> right now? I'll tell you! right now my wife's mother is taking care of our
> child and bottle feeding him while my wife takes a bath. And if we live at
> her grandmother's house, and we want to use the computers it'll be 
> extremely
> difficult because we can't bring the baby up here, according them, not 
> even
> to the apartment because there's a chance a 60-year old severely disabled
> person will come down here and mollest him or something like that. That's
> what cps thinks apparently. So first our child has been threatened to be
> taken away and now we're forced to move against our will! I hate this! My
> life, my wife's life, our babies life just seems to be getting worse and
> worse! We don't want to move! if we move down there, that means we don't
> make the extra cash we may need to buy our baby the things he needs. 
> because
> we won't have our computers. Oh, and my mother bought my wife and I a 
> double
> bed a few months ago, if we move down there to her grandmother's house 
> then
> that investment of my mother's will have been pretty much a waste of 
> money.
> I don't want to move! I want my wife and I to be able to stay in this
> apartment until we can somehow make the money to move out and get a place 
> of
> our own! We don't want to move! we need to make that extra hundred or in 
> the
> case of my wife, 400 or 500 dollars a month to pay for what our baby 
> needs!
> And my wife is in a lot of pain right now after her stitches. So she is 
> not
> able to sit at a computer for long periods of time yet and continue 
> working.
> But I can. But if we move to her grandmother's my hands are tied and hers
> will be too once she's better because the computers are there in our
> apartment, and we would be at her grandmothers. And we'd have to take 
> turns
> coming to the apartment here to use the computers. I don't want to split 
> up
> our little family if I can help it! I don't want to move to her
> grandmother's house. I like her grandmother. But that's not the issue. The
> issue is we're being forced to move out against our will and not given any
> time to prepare for it. And it's all child protection services fault! it's
> cps's fault! It's all their fault! they're making our lives hell and I 
> want
> it to stop! I can't take much more of this!
>
> Josh
>
> email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
> AOL: kutztownstudent
> msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com
> skype: jkenn337
>
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