As soon as I saw that charity I knew I wanted to participate. It really is helping women on the streets to share the dignity.
The little boy has been passed from pillar to post. His then teenage mother is really something from what I can tell. She had no idea she was pregnant until the day she had the baby, she supposedly thought she was just getting fat. Her own idiot mother apparently stopped her from adopting him out where he could have had a decent family so she could 'take care of him'. That lasted until he was around two I think. The mother had long since abandoned any pretense of caring about him and spent all of her time partying and disappearing with boys for days on end. The grandmother 'couldn't cope', which translated into her own boyfriend was annoyed that she now had a baby to look after and wouldn't let her move in with him. He then went to a family friend who apparently treated the poor boy terribly so he was removed and given to his teenage father. That ended when the dad, who was a kid himself, tried to commit suicide while his little boy was present. I think he then got shoved with his dad's aunt for a while, and now I think the woman he is with is his dad's eldest sister who very plainly doesn't want him. Her and her family recently went on holidays and told him he wasn't allowed to go with them as he "costs too much" and dumped him for weeks with his mother's sister who had pretty much just given birth herself and didn't have the time or patience to make the poor kid feel welcome. He lives in a household that makes it clear that he's been taken in grudgingly.
I wish the authorities would allow him to be taken in by non-family, I would make it work somehow, illness or not, or there would have to be decent foster families out there. He deserves to be adopted but his dad won't agree to it. It's not even going to be easy to get a chance to see him to give him his gifts, but he's going to be at his disabled granddad's next week, and he said we could go there to visit him. I hope to god he gets at least one present on Christmas day seeing as we can't give him the toys we got him until then. It's so unfair that children have to suffer like this because of bad choices made by adults. He should be in a family where he can be loved like he deserves. We intend to utterly shower him with attention and love for the short time we can visit. He desperately needs to know there are people who care about him. My heart just breaks!!
I'm crossing everything that I can get back to writing ASAP. I miss you so!!! Huge hugs to you. I hope you and hubby have a beautiful Christmas.
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The little boy has been passed from pillar to post. His then teenage mother is really something from what I can tell. She had no idea she was pregnant until the day she had the baby, she supposedly thought she was just getting fat. Her own idiot mother apparently stopped her from adopting him out where he could have had a decent family so she could 'take care of him'. That lasted until he was around two I think. The mother had long since abandoned any pretense of caring about him and spent all of her time partying and disappearing with boys for days on end. The grandmother 'couldn't cope', which translated into her own boyfriend was annoyed that she now had a baby to look after and wouldn't let her move in with him. He then went to a family friend who apparently treated the poor boy terribly so he was removed and given to his teenage father. That ended when the dad, who was a kid himself, tried to commit suicide while his little boy was present. I think he then got shoved with his dad's aunt for a while, and now I think the woman he is with is his dad's eldest sister who very plainly doesn't want him. Her and her family recently went on holidays and told him he wasn't allowed to go with them as he "costs too much" and dumped him for weeks with his mother's sister who had pretty much just given birth herself and didn't have the time or patience to make the poor kid feel welcome. He lives in a household that makes it clear that he's been taken in grudgingly.
I wish the authorities would allow him to be taken in by non-family, I would make it work somehow, illness or not, or there would have to be decent foster families out there. He deserves to be adopted but his dad won't agree to it. It's not even going to be easy to get a chance to see him to give him his gifts, but he's going to be at his disabled granddad's next week, and he said we could go there to visit him. I hope to god he gets at least one present on Christmas day seeing as we can't give him the toys we got him until then. It's so unfair that children have to suffer like this because of bad choices made by adults. He should be in a family where he can be loved like he deserves. We intend to utterly shower him with attention and love for the short time we can visit. He desperately needs to know there are people who care about him. My heart just breaks!!
I'm crossing everything that I can get back to writing ASAP. I miss you so!!! Huge hugs to you. I hope you and hubby have a beautiful Christmas.