Yes and no, Celtic. It's a really long story.
I was a foster parent before I adopted. When his parental rights were terminated, we began the adoption process, but then the biological mother of our other foster child accused me of child abuse in order to try to get her son back quicker. I don't blame her for this, the state was really dragging their feet there and it was her only way to more or less guarantee her son back. Especially since there had just been a really awful case of a foster parent abusing a kid in the system chronically for several years with no intervention and eventually killing the kid. So there was a 30 day investigation at the end of which there was nothing to substantiate the case on...so they extended it 30 more days. And on and on for 9 months. There was nothing to substantiate it on, and there continued to be nothing, but they kept hoping for something because they wanted "bein' tough on rotten foster parents" cases. But while this was ongoing, the adoption couldn't complete, and it also allowed people to come out of the woodwork to contest it.
December 2007 was the termination, Feb 2008 the accusation happened, Nov 2008 it was finally unsubstantiated, Dec 2008 the younger one was born, March 2009 we finally fought the last contesting successfully, April 2009 he was adopted.
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