Children Services Child Placement

[wardfamily]

My boyfriend has a 7 year old son from a previous relationship. He has vistitation on the weekends and rarely misses a weekend. Recently the mother of the child lost custody and had the children removed from the home by children services, because the mother was using herion, she was not only using but she was using in front of the children as well. Children Services placed the children in foster care. We have submitted to numerous drug tests, a background check, fingerprinting, and several home studies, we passed all of them. The children were placed with the maternal grandparents (she has 3 boys). Children services petitioned the court that my boyfriends son be placed in our home. Instead the court moved that the mother move in to the home where the children reside. She has failed drug tests and has only recently started drug rehab. I do not want to imply that I think that the mother should be taken out of the childrens lives, or not given the oppurtunity to get better, only I suggest that she not live part with the children until she is drug free and can choose not to use the drugs in front of her small children, I suggest that my boyfriends child be placed in our home, seeing as their is no legal restrictions to prohibit that. I do not understand why they are choosing to do things the way they are. Is there anything else that we can do to ensure the saftey of his child? Is there anything else that we can do to have the child placed with us? I know that I have no legal importance in this case other than the fact that I am involved with child when he is in our home for visitation. I am just trying to get answers for my boyfriend

 

[Duranie]

First of all it is unusual that family services would not place the child with the father. How far away does he live? He needs to call the case worker and attend the next hearing to see if he can get placement.

 

[jharris352]

I'm with Duraine on this one. FIRST, we need to know what state you are in. Then I need to know what's being left out of this story. This child SHOULD be placed with his father if that is what the father wants. If the father has established paternity he has custody rights and is FIRST in line to get the child if Mom's rights are abridged.

I'm not saying that you are intentionally hiding something, just that there is some piece of information that doesn't make sense. A heroine addiction is no joke and you are absolutely right that she shouldn't get to live in the house with the children unless she has completed a great deal of her rehab and been clean for at least 6 months.

More information would be appreciated.

 

[BayState]

My boyfriend has a 7 year old son from a previous relationship. He has vistitation on the weekends and rarely misses a weekend. Recently the mother of the child lost custody and had the children removed from the home by children services, because the mother was using herion, she was not only using but she was using in front of the children as well. Children Services placed the children in foster care. We have submitted to numerous drug tests, a background check, fingerprinting, and several home studies, we passed all of them. The children were placed with the maternal grandparents (she has 3 boys). Children services petitioned the court that my boyfriends son be placed in our home. Instead the court moved that the mother move in to the home where the children reside. She has failed drug tests and has only recently started drug rehab. I do not want to imply that I think that the mother should be taken out of the childrens lives, or not given the oppurtunity to get better, only I suggest that she not live part with the children until she is drug free and can choose not to use the drugs in front of her small children, I suggest that my boyfriends child be placed in our home, seeing as their is no legal restrictions to prohibit that. I do not understand why they are choosing to do things the way they are. Is there anything else that we can do to ensure the saftey of his child? Is there anything else that we can do to have the child placed with us? I know that I have no legal importance in this case other than the fact that I am involved with child when he is in our home for visitation. I am just trying to get answers for my boyfriend

Did the court find that Dad had knowledge of Mom's drug use and did nothing?