My case is very well as some people say the punishment doesnt fit the crime persay, in 2003 my son was 3 years old and at this time i was 7 months pregnant with my youyngest daughter, i was on bed rest due to a complicated pergnancy, anyways my son had figured out our "chilproof" door knob on the front door. i had entrusted in some friends off my husbands boat to watch the kids as they told me to go lay down for awhile as i was doing very well with the pergancy,( my husband was on duty) one of our freinds needed to go and call his mom and asked the other friend if he was ok with the two kids till they got back and he said yes, well he decided he was going to leave and not tell me. my son left the house and i didnt know till 2 hours later, i was devistated to know that i couldnt find my son.he was at the police station on base, i was relived to have him back and the officer told me to be careful becuase i didnt want CPS involved so i said ok. well a month later still pregnant with complications, it happend again, i was again devistated, and when the police came to my door i was freeked out that i didnt know where my son was, i then went to the station with them and had to fill out a statement that i did and when i told them that i was feeling "out of it" from having a complicated pregnancy they told CPS that part but left out that i was having a complicated pregnancy. so once again CPS came to my home and yes my house was a mess but i had 2 kids and was pregnant with a medically fragial baby and my husband was helping much but he was in the navy and wasnt home hardly ever. well it came time to be enduced because the doctors felt that my daughter didnt have much of a chance to make it if she " get out", so i had her almost 3 weeks early only to learn that she had polycystic kidney, cleft palet, about 90% deaf and very low birth weight, she was in the NICU for over a week, and she had to use a specialized bottle to eat and that was still even hard for her, she had severe relux disease, so i was pretty overwhelmed if you can imagine, so we finally got to bring her home and she still was not gaining weigh she was going to the doctor like 2X a week. when she was 3 months old she was barly 6LBS, and she was addmitted to the hospital for poor wieght gain on a thursday the doctors told me that if she did not gain weight to their statisfaction then she would go to the hospital i had her at becuase they have a NICU and the best care, i agreed. well the 3 days came and they apperantly thought that she was doing ok because they SENT her home with us that saturday. well things were ok at that point until CPS came to my door on tuesday and they took my kids and told me that i can do this volentarly or not so i thought that it would look better in court if i had cooroperated, WRONG!!!!!, at this time we had only had CPS in our home for 4 months and had already had 3 caseworkers. well this caseworker did not like my husband so it got alot harder. in the mix of all this the caewroker told my 'parents' that it was very necessary for them to offically adopt me, well nobody told the court that i was already involved in an open PCS case in another court at this time thats FRAUDULANT of the courts. but having no money and a state appointed lawyer i was screwed. so the kids were in foster care for 2 weeks then placed with my now parents, and things started to get even harder my husband was booted out of the navy due to all this with CPS, and we became homeless wich always seem to come up at court from the state sideof things, and my husband and i had a very hard time looking for a job because all the "services" that CPS wanted us to do there for we stayed homeless becuase we could get a job and do the services and they were taking half of our paychecks for ChILD SUPPORT, so we fell even more behind in doing what we wre told to do by CPS, anyways, i decided to do a dependancy because i thought that i had a better chance of getting my kids back WRONG!!!!!!!!! and every six months for almost three years CPS told the courts that we were in noncompliance with the services asked of us, even though we had compleated the 2 parenting classes, parenting assesment, anger managemnet assesment, ect. and in the mix of all this i got pregnant, having a baby is supposed to be a happy time for a family, but not for mine i knew that i was getting the baby taken away right out of the hospital even though this had nothing to do with my current dependancy, CPS got a court date 2 hours after my son was born (07-27-06) boy i guess they could wait to take him too. well anyways my son was born very small (4.5 lbs) so he had to stay for almost a week after he was born. the day after i was relased from the hospital i was readdmitted because the dotors thought that i may have a utteran infection, so i missed the court date for my newest baby, and when we went to court after i was out of the hospital again, i heard them say something about missing the last court date and having to reschedual it but NOTHING of why, as if i was playing around, not that i was in the hopspital doped on morphine for a possible infection. so we were told that we needed to relinqush our rights by our attorneys because we would loose if we went to trial, so we did and the state told us that with an adoptin there is a cooling off period and they wanted it to be for 6 to 8 months!!!! i had not happy so i said "what you guys are going to give us one last visit to tell the kids that they are not going to see us for 6 to 8 months and not even talk to us or any form of communtication? how the hell do you think that is going to make them feel what about them and the best interest of them because what you guys are asking is not fair to my chilren" and they were hesitant at first till my mom sadi what about 30 days, and then they saw that thaat was a good idea, but if she had never said anything they would just let my kids be hurt and feel that it was in the best interest of the kids to not see us, tell me that they really dont think that because i cant see how they could think that rippinng them away from their parents and giving them new ones is going to be in their best interest. thank-you for reading my story. it really helps to talk about it. Summer