Denied! Due to inclement weather!
Yes, I was a tad upset this morning at this news. Now we are delayed two weeks to the start of our home study. I will list off the required documents we need by the time this whole thing is complete. Most are filled out upon the initial meeting but many are things we have to send away for from different governmental departments.
-4 references (only one family) - these will be called or mailed surveys to complete
-2 medical checks - they provide the forms that must be filled by our doctors and forwarded directly to social worker
-2 police checks - separate from the ones we just did for public adoption
-2 child abuse registry checks - ditto above
-2 revenue canada notice of assessments
-a financial statement
-fire exit plan for our house
-home safety checklist done by social worker (it even lists the type of first aid kits we should have!)
-copies of: marriage certificate, auto and house insurance, life insurance, birth certificates, family pictures
-Signed Discipline Agreement - a government document saying we agree that discipline is important but not in a punitive manner (duh!)
-adoption training classes
Ok, we have to go through all of this rigmarole in order to help a homeless child - how do I get the job that requires me to do this check up (or even just the home safety, background checks, and discipline agreement) for all the families out there that have kids the natural way? I understand why they need to do it, but why isn't more in place to help kids born to idiot parents, other than observing and documenting serveral instances and then finally stepping in after much neglect or damage has been done? Ugh! I'm sure I'm just extra down because we've hit our first delay of which I'm sure there will be many. Until the end, I will just live vicariously through friends! Congrats Jen and Rob on your wonderful viking baby! xoxo
You need a license to own a dog but not to have a child.... I see many cases like this when I go down the chimneys of all the homes. Parents have everything and the kids have nothing. That's where I step in! I just shake my head at these types of folk... And then watch all the crumbs fall out of my beard onto the floor... I think about picking them up but then I don't.
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I was thinking the same thing about the babies that get sent home to druggie parents or parents too stupid to know to change a diaper. Something is wrong with our system. Its like you don't need a licence to have a baby but you do to adopt one. Everyone should have to get one. I think I was grinding my teeth. DEEEEEEP BREATH!
ReplyDeleteHow come nobody came to my house to check my first aid kit when I had Jack? The rules are pretty crazy!
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Steph
Yes, I totally agree that people should have to pass a test (a HARD one) before they are allowed to have children! In Cherie-World, there is birth control in the drinking water, and you don't get the antidote until you pass the Parenting Test.
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