When I met my husband s.s. was 4 years old. We have never really had the money for a lawyer so we were stuck with a really lousy custody arrangement for a long time. When we would have s.s. for a weekend, and were getting ready to take him back to his Mom and Grandma, he would literally tremble with fear and beg us not to take him back. This tore our hearts out, but we had no choice. Finally my Mom paid for us to get a lawyer a year ago or so, and really just having the lawyer and the ability to fight is all we needed, b/c we told her we had enough on her (abuse, her and her familiy's police records, ect..), to not only win but humiliate her in court, so convinced her it was better to sign, and she did, but not before telling her son (yet again) that she wanted nothing more to do with him bc he said he wanted to be with us. She still has visits, and talks to him on phone occasionally, and she will mess w/ his mind. She tells him "pencil pushers" are not real men, when we try to
2007-07-17
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