I’m from the Midwest and my experience with CPS in this area matches what you say. At least, for white parents. If your mother lost her parental rights.....well, I can only imagine how awful things were.

Not to be Too Serious, but honestly thank god they’re looking into innovative treatments for depression. One of the worst parts of treatment-resistant depression is looking at your lowest points and thinking “well this is just gonna keep happening over and over for my whole life”. Knowing that studies really are…

I keep reading these stories hoping to learn something and empathize, but I keep getting farther away from the conclusion I feel like I’m supposed to draw. The women are sad and depressed because of their feelings, not because of concern for their kids or what is best for them. As an adult, I went back and read the…

I was adopted as an infant, but know my biological family and I totally agree.

Animals can be the worrrrst. I once dog-sat for my parents when they went out of town, leaving me alone in their house with their terror of a dog. Belle was an American Eskimo Spitz that had clearly been abused by her past owner - poor thing had anxiety and fear issues out the wazoo, if you put a leash on her she…

From my perspective, trying really hard and two bucks will get you on the subway. If your best isn’t good enough, it’s not good enough. My mom’s best was certainly not good enough for me and I resent her for her efforts to prevent me from being cared for properly by others when she wasn’t fit, regardless of her…

Usually I see this post too late to comment, but I am enraged by it every week. My mom’s story would sound exactly like this, that she was a good mom and every external force in the world separated us - it was my dad’s fault, it was the neighbor’s fault who reported her, it was my fault for telling my teacher I didn’t…

I find it hard to put too much trust in these emotionally charged, one sided stories. I’d love to know what the foster parents (with more first hand knowledge of the children’s emotional states) have to say about the situation.

Thanks so much for sharing your perspective on this. I know that the purpose of this series is to highlight the parents’ perspective in the system, but having worked on the “child’s” side of the system, I think the children’s stories are necessary to give a complete picture.

I’m an adult now with a good life, but I was a child with a mother like the women in these stories. She was stripped of her parental rights by a Midwestern state in the early 90s. I don’t know how much you all know about the Midwest, but for my home state to decide that a woman was not fit to parent, her behavior had…

We adopted our daughter by a young woman who was incarcerated and gave birth in prison, a relative of mine. It was very stressful and painful for her to give up her parental rights (we did not ask her, she asked us) but she also felt relief once she knew her daughter would be in a safe, secure, stable home surrounded…

“On more than one occasion, his foster mother told me that he got depressed after visits and acted out by being disrespectful or breaking his possessions. Those were little signs, she told me, that “maybe the visits aren’t such a good idea.” I felt that if he were allowed to see me more often, then it would not be so…

Based on information I’ve gleaned from reddit (sorry) and an interview that Amy did recently, supposedly Margarita and Michael as well as many of the other designers had all complained to the producers about the cheating, but the producers didn’t do anything so that they’d have a more dramatic runway - which they got.…

Tim Gunn is obviously a treasure, he’s fair, critical, helpful, even tempered. What he is not good at is “acting”. Any time you can tell they have prepared a statement for him, he appears to just mistake volume for authenticity.

I live in New Zealand and my neighbor has sheep that say “meh” like they’re constantly underwhelmed by everything.

All the camels were out partying!

If this is how Price treated the executive producer of one of his network’s shows, one can only imagine how he treated women in lower level positions on his staff.

I’ve used non-chip cards and chip-and-signature cards in Iceland inthe last few years. I don’t know why they would not work. Perhaps your provider blocked Iceland? Everyone in Europe knows American cards are chip-and-sig not chip-and-pin

the word is “perineum.”

Be sure he has recently showered.