There are many reasons that children get taken away from their homes.  They suffer abuse, are neglected, parents die and siblings can’t take care of them.  But I think the worst one is when parents just don’t want to deal anymore.  Sure, having a child is hard work, it involves sacrifice, commitment, no sleep, strain on the marriage, pukey clothes, dirty diapers.  But it also brings so much joy!  Seeing those bright eyes just fixed on your face, completely in love with you, hearing that little giggle when you make funny faces or noises, watching them learn new things and become more independant, or just feeling their hand on your face, just resting there.

However, there are some people that should not be and cannot be parents.  Being a “parent” is not just getting knocked up and carrying the baby for 9 months.  Any idiot can do that.  What I guess some don’t realize is that it really is a life long commitment.  And what you do to that child when they are small is going to affect them forever in ways that you can’t even imagine.  I still have trust issues, sometimes I feel threatened by stupid, silly actions, I’m scared to death that I will feel harmful feelings against my own son.  If people really knew how scarring it is for a child to be moved from home to home, away from their parents, maybe, just maybe, they’d suck it up and try to take care of their own.