Contact with birth family members just seems to be fraught with problems.
Recently, we received word that some of Danielle's family members were in town. Since she hadn't seen any of these people since before she was taken into foster care, we decided to allow a visit.
Everybody seemed very nice. We felt like there was an enormous contrast between what social workers had told us about these people, what Danielle herself had said, and the way they behaved. I spent several days afterward struggling to reconcile those differences in my mind.
In the end, I couldn't reconcile them. How does one reconcile nice, polite, and smiling faces with the deeds these people were alleged to have perpetrated?
One can't.
And then, to make things even more complicated, we noticed that one of Danielle's family members was offering prescription drugs up for sale on a social media site.
Birth family contact just never gets any easier.
What Now?
3 years ago
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