That Will Be $400.00

It seems at this point, in spite of our many legal attempts, we cannot see nor have custody of Angel and Armoni. So I decided to go about this a different way. The siblings of Angel and Armoni have not been allowed to see each other as well. After researching I discovered that adoptions done through Maricopa County Courts there is a program that will reunite siblings who have been separated by adoptions. It is called The Confidential Intermediary Program which provides a service to help facilitate contact between parties of an adoption (Adoption triad members) or siblings separated as a result of a dependency action. Voila! If we couldn’t see the children here’s an opportunity for the children to see each other. I placed a call and it was explained to me how it works. However, there is a fee, $400.00 dollars. For those of you that have been following my blog and it seems that there are only 3 of you, you now know that we have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours in the efforts to gain custody of Angel and Armoni. There is not a price that can be place on seeing our grandchildren or having our grandchildren seeing each other. However that $400.00 represents to me another injustice of this system of extorting money for something that they do not own in the first place, family.

This time of the year is especially hard, because this is the time for family. I hope someday Kathy B, the new adoptive mother, will someday read this blog and have a change of heart. After all this is the time of the year when people believe that so call miracles happen. Well, this remains to be seen. For now Kathy please grow a heart and realize that these children need their God given family. To all those foster and adoptive families who feel that keeping children away from their biological family is somehow heroic, please think again. It’s immoral, it is wrong on so many levels, and it’s an insult to God who created the institution of Family.

I Should Have....

Today I said to my husband I wished I could have a do-over; that last day in court. I wished our attorney had prepared us that this was the time the court would finally allow us to speak. He didn't and we were not prepared. I relive that nightmare in court a dozen times a day in my head. I wished I said this or that. My husband says would it have mattered? He is right. Have you ever walked into a room full of people and you have that feeling that they had been talking about you? That's the feeling we had when we entered the court room that one last time. Everything was in place all the decisions had been made, the children would be adopted by Kathy B. the following day, this was just a formality, a deception or display of fairness. This court was not fair, the judge, and cps were all together in this. The decision had been made before we walked into that court room.

Shut down Child Protective Services

Shut down Child Protective Services

Az Supreme Court Says No

Unfortunately, the state supreme court of Arizona denied our case. As it seems we will not be getting our grandchildren. We are sad, of course. This goes without saying. We now will press on to Federal. Why do we have to pay such a price to see our own grandchildren? This is unnatural it goes against all laws of the universal sovereign. God made family and state government can break families.

Let this not happen to you. Anyone with a child could fall victim to CPS agencies. No one is exempted. All it takes is one phone call from a disgruntled neighbor, or an unhappy employee, a friend or relative who has a grudge against you, or someone sees you disciplining your child. Never ever think that this cannot happen to you. It has happen to thousands of families nationwide. If it does read information from these sites:

Fightcps

National Coalition For Child Reform

Family Rights

Grandparents For Children's Rights

For grandparents who see their adult children involved in drugs and neglecting their children and are in a position to take care of them, do not call CPS. First talk to them, ask if you can take custody of them until they are capable of taking care of them. If they refuse call a reliable juvenile attorney who is not contracted with CPS, or better still check the above sites form information on how you can legally take custody of them.Once you call CPS, they will take over and even place them in foster care even if you want them. Instead call family courts or a reliable juvenile attorney who is not contracted with CPS, or better still check the above sites form information on how you can legally take custody of them.

Cps has helped children who really need to be removed due to severe threats on their lives. However, the number of children taken away that should have not, is much larger than those who need to be. States receive money from the Federal Government for each child adopted outside of the family. So the incentive is there. Do let what happen to us happen to you.

Taking A Break

It takes a lot out of me writing this blog. In fact I have not posted in months and many months go past before you will see a new post. This whole thing about losing my grandchildren, Angel and Armoni, to someone who the state of Arizona felt was the better placement, hurts like crazy. It makes me feel so angry, resentful, and dejected. These are feelings that I do not want to have and feelings that strips away years from my life. So, I take a break, not from thinking about Angie or Armoni, no I will never do that. It is a break from those negative emotions

Why do I write this blog? Informational purposes mainly, there are so many relatives who are good and hard working, whom their state Child Protective Services Divison passes over in favor of placing their children with a total stranger, for a profit. Maybe some day someone will see the many blogs and websites of relatives, like myself, who have been tormented by an agency that is supposed to protect children.

"After All They Are Not Your Children"

Last week I was speaking with someone and told them the story of Angel & Armoni being adopted out by the state even though we wanted to have custody of them. The woman's reply was, "After all they are not your children." I was so surprise I could not comment on her statement. How would anyone else have responded?

I did not give birth to them. Was that what she meant? No, they are not my birth children, however, there is a great part of me in their blood, chemical make up, and personality. They have in essence inherited me. So they are a part of me no matter how you look at it. So I'm more of a mother to Angel & Armoni than their adoptive mother. Her chemical make up does not exist within them.

So the next time someone says why are you going through all this trouble, after all they are not your children? I will have a reply.

Your Brothers

Dear Angel and Armoni,
It has been over two years since you have seen you brothers. Evin is now 12 and Deavion is 11 both are doing well in school. They get to see each other on a regular basis. They miss you very much and often ask us if the Judges will send you back home. We just tell them that we will pray that this happens. One day you will see them again.
love you so much
grandma

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They Have Won A Battle Not The Fight

Dear Angel & Armoni,
We tried to have your adopted anulled, because according to Federal laws, family should be given preference when parental rights are taken, in order for the states to receive funding. We were not. Which would indicate that the adoption is illegal. So we appealed and lost. I don't know why the judges feel that you are better off not seeing your siblings and your natural family. They may have won another battle but the fight is still on. We can not afford to hire an attorney, and besides it appears that the attorneys in Phoenix, are afraid to go up against the state in these matters. So with the help of an advocate we will press on to Arizona State Supreme Court. We will continue the fight up to the final courts. Be strong, stay safe, we love you.

Private Name, Private Number

I refer to my grandchildren as Angel and Armoni, their birth names. However, a message left by my grandchildren' adoptive mother on our answering machine, caller id reads private name private number, referred to my grandchildren as other names. My question is, how is this in the best interest of a child. Reminds me of slave owners changing the names of their slaves to erase all traces of who they are and to which family they were born into.

The Last Time We Were With Our Grandchildren Angel & Armoni

Our Grandchildren were taken by the State of Arizona and even though we fought to gain custody of them through the court systems, they were adopted out. The adopted mother refuses to allow us to have contact with them. It has been two years since we have seen them. This Blog is created so that when they are old enough to start searching for us they may find us. We want them to know that we love and miss them. We are still fighting to see them. We will never give up.