Meeting parents who have been involved with the Department of Child Safety, or who have at the least had DoCS knock at their door.
R.I.P my darling husband and my best friend. The world has lost a man with the heart of a lion and the mind of Einstein. I miss him with physical pain and I love him with every ounce of my soul.
I am a widowed mother with 5 children of my own and 2 step-children.
On 15 of August 2007, at 9.30pm, I lost my husband in a traffic accident. He lost control of our car coming home from work and our car was pinned under a bus. Fortunately he didn't suffer.
I am a staunch advocate for the rights of parents when it comes to the Department of Child Safety. Many parents make mistakes but many more are accused of doing things which they have not done.
It's outrageous that DoCS can remove a child from their family home in the blink of an eye with very little reason or no reason and society does not approve of this. But society tends to forget about the impact that this has on the child and extended family members.
Parents who have had their children removed cope in their own way and fight the good fight the best way they know how, but they are left to do it on their own and my goal is to put a complete stop to this.
I am hoping to bring more and more parents together to help and support eachother through their troubled times.
I also barrack for the children, who are being forced to wise up about a system that they need know nothing about at their tender ages and to stand in the corner of extended family members whose rights to see and associate with grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins in foster care are given and taken on the whim of DoCS workers.
I am also trying to promote more awareness of what is happening to the future generations of Australia.
All parents who have been involved with DoCS and children who have been placed in foster care recently or in the past.
Kevin Rudd... And invite him to walk a day in the shoes of parents who have had children removed to protective custody, then ask him some deep and meaningful questions that he won't be able to squirm out of.
The people... Who wrote the Child Protection Act 1999, so that I can point out where they made all their mistakes that allowed the Act to be interpreted by high school graduates.
The person... Who decided that the only thing new DoCS workers need is a high school diploma and a current driver's licence.
Hey sweetheart long time no talk, you will never believe what has happened over the last 6 months its unbelievable. Me and my 17 year old sister moved out of my grandmas house were doing ok, my 12 years old sister was put into st hildas, she boards there, and the 9 and 10 yr old were in reunification with my grandma so she could look after them...we had 2 weeks before they would have moved in with her and now the department say that she isnt fit enough to look after them, and that they have special needs that she cant look after, but what makes me furious is that she looked after jodie and i for 2 years and we were fine. Im telling u this department of child safety are bloody idiots and the justice system is all bullshit! My mum has contacted today tonight and chanel 9 and were just gonna get our story out there this is outrages i mean its been going on for almost 4 and a half years im sick of it. Anyway I hope your well and life is going well, please write back let me know how u are, have a good one hun.
Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2008. I hope that 2008 will bring you happiness, you deserve it. You have been through enough.
Hang in there, we all know that DoCs are bastards. Not nice that you can't see your girls for Christmas. Swing sets and trampolines aren't very friendly to put up and take apart, I know I have done it a couple of times and on my own too, so I know how you feel. I hope you get it figured out.
hoo hoo, I've bought products from Bastards Inc. before! If I remember correctly, the directions for putting together a dolls house was their crowning achievement! Glad to see you back, I've missed you... F***ing DoCS - what a bunch of turds. Fiona
"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths [The first of the 'Four Noble Truths' which Buddha taught was 'Life is suffering.'] It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
"Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been specially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.
"Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them? (From The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck, M.D.)
