Stuck in the Cycle

Stuck In the Cycle
Because of an overburdened and under staffed child welfare system, children like 10 year-old Sue (not real name), are removed from parent’s care and passed around a system that intensifies Reactive Attachment Disorders. Sue was removed from her home because of her mother’s failure to protect and parent her at the very young age of 6. She lived in a fifteen foot trailer, with her sister Jen (not real name) and their drug addict mother and her boyfriend. There, she and her sister were mentally and physically abused by her mother’s boyfriend, and frequently exposed to the two adults having sex. After family found out about the girls abuse, they were placed in foster care, and six months later returned home back with their mother. Less than 5 months later, Sue and her sister Jen were removed from their mother’s care again.
Because of the urgency for a safe home they were placed right into another foster home. The girls behaviors were starting to surface and the current foster parents felt that they couldn’t parent their behaviors. They are placed in another home, and soon both girls were showing signs of inappropriate sexualized behaviors. The cycle continues; Sue and her sister are placed in another foster home. Although both girls liked their new foster family, their extreme abuse and the trauma of being moved repeatedly worsened their behaviors. Both girls had begun to lie and became very manipulating. They lacked impulse control and cause and effect thinking. So once again their behaviors were too severe for the new foster family, and they were given a 7 day notice to be moved.
Their social worker then found Jen’s biological father’s parents in another state. Because the children were hard to parent and maintain placement in a foster home, they were moved out of state to live with their grandparents. You can imaginehow traumatic this must have been. Once safely with Grandma and Grandpa the same behaviors had surfaced and had become...