I am going to tell you this because it needs to be heard.  There are a lot of people who become Foster Parents just for the money and there are Foster Parents who want to adopt and use the system for their own selfish needs. Read this story and see.

  There once was a little girl named Stacie Lee, and there was a mother who loved her very much.   I know this for a fact because I was that mother and my daughter was that little girl. Stacie Lee wound up with a Foster Parent due to a horrible babysitter and a more horrible father.  She almost died and Social Services got involved and she went to a foster home.  I was told if I divorced my husband and was able to move to another town and find a nice place to live I would have no problem getting her back.

    They did not charge me with any abuse. I was also a victim of husband abuse. I had 2 other children at the time but they were not taken from my home.  I did all that they said and nearly died trying to leave my abusive husband and hid from him for almost two yrs. but I made it.

    I had a job a new home. They checked it out found everything in order but they STILL wouldn't give Stacie back.  Finally when she had been in the foster home 2 years they called me into their office to discuss what to do next.  I was totally shocked when the Social worker told me I would sign adoption papers for my daughter or they would take away the other two children.

    I said I wouldn't and the woman slammed her fist on the desk and said I would or she would make my life miserable.  Seems they had someone who wanted a little girl and I was so scared and young and poor and couldn't afford a lawyer that I allowed her to walk me over to the court house and sign the papers.

    What a fool I was.

    In 1993 I found my daughter and lo and behold the surprise I got when she told me who her adoptive parents were. None other than the foster family who had her.  They were good friends with the Social worker and they kept me at bay long enough to have had her in their home to legally adopt her.  There was nothing legal about it. They changed her name to Rachelle and I still feel like she was stolen from me. She was barely 6 months old when all this happened. The result is that my daughter and I can't have a real relationship because of it.

    There may be some good foster homes out there but you will never convince me that there is a real just reason for why this woman did what she did.  Sad thing is she is still working in that department, and my daughter tried to do the same thing that was done to me to someone she knew.  She seemed to know all the little tricks there were to make a mother look bad and knew just what to do to entrap her.  How sad.  

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