Ok, I need some input.
Setting: A 16 yr old boy is taken into foster care. He is placed with his maternal grandparents. He should NEVER have been removed from his happy stable family setting. Grandparents are helping CPS to keep the boy due to "ideology" differences - i.e. they want control over their grandchildren's "beliefs" and don't like their daughter's religious beliefs. So grandparents help CPS lie about their own daughter so they can keep her son.
Situation: Boy is approaching 17th birthday. These "christian" grandparents decide, without informing Mom, that they will let the boy sleep over at a friends house for the 2 nights preceding his birthday. Another "christian" couple, and friends of the family. Thing is, the boy's "friend" happens to be female, and 16. No other children in the house there. So he spends 3 days, 2 nights with her for his seventeenth birthday. They only live 18-20 miles apart, so why the need to stay overnight? I mean, it's not like this is his best buddy, and they are out running around in the woods playing airsoft, or paintball, or shooting bb guns, or riding dirt bikes, etc. No, this is a GIRL and they have nothing else to do but hang around inside the house watching movies, and who knows what else.
Mom isn't even allowed to talk to him without the grandparents listening to every word, but he is allowed to stay at random friend's houses whenever he wants. Stupid situation. Anyway, would anybody here find this to be normal? Letting a 17 yr old boy sleep over at a 16yr old girls house? And worse, he is in "state care". Should the Criminal Pond Scum worker be allowing this sort of thing? Every home must be "approved" before one of "their children" is allowed to stay over night. So, the social worker MUST know there is only 1 16yr old girl living there, right? And why would the social worker give permission for an "overnighter" under these circumstances? Isn't that kind of like "exposing the child to dangerous situations" - i.e. inciting to statutory rape, perhaps? Not that anything happened... but it could have. Are they hoping for an illigitimate baby to kidnap?? What are the "christian" grandparents thinking?
Is this a really really stupid thing that the "care givers" and social worker have conspired to allow? Am I just hopelessly "old fashioned"?
Oh, and oddly enough, at the same time, Mom gets an email request from the social worker asking for her permission to allow the boy to get his driver's license... She can't participate in raising him, but the state needs to give permission for him to get a state license? Just wondering what people think of this. Feedback?
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