I think a situation like this would be ideal for some sort of co parenting set up between the biological mom and the foster family - does that exist? I think it’s obvious she loves her child and is making every effort she can to be a good parent. I think it’s also obvious that there could be some real dangers and…

That line’s getting longer every day.

It’s probably just a harmless sloth.
See the resemblance:

Josh Lucas, Bradley Cooper... Coopersonator. any of you can crash all my parties.

My sister’s IQ is about 65. She’s very high functioning in some areas, very low in others. She does well enough to live on her own, but just barely. She forgets to take medication, struggles with simple cooking directions, etc. She actually conceived several times but miscarried. I do not believe that her body was…

It was more than that she missed a feeding and had trouble with the diaper:

The health thing when you are adopting is insane. In the interests of honesty and full disclosure, I let the social worker we were dealing with know about the anxiety that I experienced following my recurrent pregnancy losses. She said that it shouldn’t be a big problem, but I’d need to be evaluated to “ensure that I…

As someone who is physically disabled by a genetic condition that makes it IMO unethical for me to knowingly risk passing it on to a child (I had a daughter before I was diagnosed/had any clue), I find this to be just another extension of what I have faced in terms of wanting to adopt. My health precludes me,…

I agree that her only getting 2 hours a month to see her baby is bullshit, though I’m inclined to believe there is a lot more to the story than we know especially if her own parents were sketchy and in the system themselves.

Sigh. I have a learning-disabled parent with a below-average IQ. Not 70, but not great. I have a lot of feelings about this article but I’ll sum it up with, “I think intellectually disabled people can be great parents, but they are also not always ideal parents and their children will face many, many hurdles that go…

DCF workers don’t have any right to refusal and have to take all cases which does result in overburdening. I wish people who get angry at situations like these would think that part of the problem is a resource and training issue and maybe go beyond anger and think about how the system needs to change.

I agree with you, but this woman did everything she was supposed to do to get better at taking care of the baby. The answer for her is not to take her child away, but to set her up with some kind of program to teach, help, and maybe monitor her until she is competent enough.

I feel for her and while I’m glad she got her daughter back, the state and the hospital were doing their job, which was to protect the child. I’m a pediatrician and see many parents who, to be completely honest, shouldn’t be taking care of their children without help. I’m not saying everyone with some developmental…

After Dana’s placement, Sara was initially allowed to see her daughter for one hour each week with the brief help of her own mother and the supervision of a social worker.

I love to see a child passionate about books!

what an awesome idea! I remember feeling limited by the books available in the school curriculum when I was a kid too, different reasons (my reading comprehension was somewhere at a high school/adult level by the time I was 11), but I remember being so bored by what they thought I should be reading. It’s cool to see…

This girl is great and she has wonderful taste in eyewear to boot.
Damn, when I was a kid we only had Arthur the Aardvark glasses and they weren’t even cool in an ironic way :/

I’m extremely embarrassed to realize that I can’t think any books with black girl protagonists off the top of my head*. Anybody have any favorites they want to share?

*I pretty much gave up fiction about 10 years ago when I first got into grad school, so I’m not exactly ‘in the loop’ anyhow. And I don’t tend to read…

This girl is amazing, and Janice Johnson Dias is winning at parenting!

A+ “filed to”, Jia. :)