Poor Kid

I was working a file today and I had to take a moment and breathe deeply.  

A social worker wanted to bring a young child in to visit one of our inmates.   The boy, not even a year old, is placed with Social Services because his mother was doing drugs (meth) during her pregnancy and tested positive after she had given birth to him.

The child was listed in our database as son to another inmate - the mother's husband.  In reading through the 12 page guardianship papers, it was revealed that the "husband" didn't/wouldn't claim the child as his own.   The current inmate, at one time, claimed paternity of the child, but has since rescinded that claim. 

The documents also stated the mother had listed two other "potential fathers" who both denied fathering the child.  

Paternity tests are being done, but in the meantime, the child is coming in to visit his "father"...or the last man to claim to be as such.

As I was reading through the papers, my heart sank.  All I could think of was, "that poor, poor little boy!"  What a rough beginning for him....and what is going to happen to him. ..now, and in the future.  

I hope the Universe is kind to this little boy. 




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Rob said…
Really sad. And I hope his life's circumstances don't result in his future becoming that of his absentee "father" (but the odds are that it probably will) :-(
April 29, 2017 at 9:37 PM
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