The Dilemma

Being a Mandatory Reporter means I have to call and report things, but my distrust of CPS and the system in general make me not want to call and report things. Enter internal conflict. This is what I was struggling with sitting there on the side of the road after the phone call with BabyBoy's BirthMom.

I already knew they had issued a pickup order. They had already been in contact with the hospital SW and everything. But they had also told me that the Birth Parents would be allowed to safety plan and/or privately adopt without CPS intervention and since they had already found an adoptive placement then it was all a moot point. Right?

I had to make sure I could take BabyBoy to the hospital for the birth. If I took him and CPS did a pickup while I was there, I may have gotten into trouble or worse had BabyBoy picked up too. There is a legal document that states BabyBoy's birth parents are not to have visits and whatnot and since BB is still in foster care I have to go by their crap. So I called his worker to get it approved and let her know they had found someone to adopt and not to worry.

And then I juggled and canceled stuff and rescheduled appointments and jumped through hoops to arrange for BabyBoy to see his sibling be born.

Then BB's worker called me back. She found out that the Birth Parents did a Pre Birth Consent, which can be revoked, and CPS felt the Birth Parents were intending to revoke it and leave the state which would leave them with custody of their newest child. Also, the person they chose was one of the ones who had contacted CPS before. She was the one who had 5 counts of somethingorother against her. Meaning CPS put the pick up order back into effect due to the adoptive person's potential to place the new baby in danger. And, by the way, would we be willing to foster the new baby?