Is it normal for us FP to have the responsibility of all visits with their parents? Both have visits. One is incarcerated I am being asked to pull the kids out of school early to meet the incarcerating parents visit need. In some cases can the caseworker pick the kids up early from school? Both my partner and I work. It’s seeming impossible to meet all of the demands….
Is it normal for the bio mom to bring a previous foster mom (they’ve become friends) to the community visits where the kids are currently placed? Bio mom claims she doesn’t feel comfortable given the fact that the kids were placed with kinship and doesn’t have the best relationship with the family member (may I add that said family member was the one who found out about her addictions etc and upon trying to help bio mom who refused the help, extreme circumstances had to be taken placed) we had no idea the extremities of her addiction but they’ve been in care for 5 years and just last year was moved to kinship despite family fighting for them the whole time. There’s a huge bias & she’s got the agency backing her and enabling her. She hardly makes it on time for her visits and cancels atleast one visit a month (they’re weekly) yet they’re pushing for reunification hard. We’ve gone above and beyond for the kids even so, the agency is now pushing for us to take them to her borough for community visits (she lives far from us) just to make it easier on her to make it. How is that in the best interest of the kids who have special needs. Were in NY.