[blparent] need urgent help

[Tammy, Paul and Colyn]

Hi,

There are lots of social workers who think just because they've read a 
chapter on blineness in their big social worker's manual they have the right 
to run the world even though most social workers don't have any kids.  They 
have to have cause to take the child, and they have to go to court and fill 
out alot of papers to do that.
so they don't just run in and take your child the way you see on tv.  The 
best thing you can do is to cooperate with them, answer their really stupid 
questions, and hope you get one who's not a trained seal.  As to this 
couple, it sounds like they've unfortunately landed in the hands of an 
uneducated fool, but not all social workers are like that, and these people 
will get to take their child home unless there's something really wrong with 
the situation.

Tammy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "trising" <trising at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] need urgent help


>I know two couples in Michigan in the NFB where both parents are blind. 
>They are in their fifties, and both couples raised children independently. 
>I know there are more. I know it is not lawful to have your children taken 
>away just on the grounds of blindness. My husband and I want children very 
>badly, but have been unable to conceive. Due to our low income status, we 
>have also been unable to adopt. That would be my worst nightmare if I 
>finally was able to conceive or adopt a baby, and then was told just 
>because my husband and I are both blind that we could not keep our baby.
> Terri Wilcox
> Secretary, National Federation of the Blind of Michigan
>
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