Our Family Survived a battle with CPS!

After 4 long months apart, my family actually survived a drawn out battle with local Child Protection Services. Some said it couldn't be done. But we went into this nightmare as a FAMILY and came out of it as a FAMILY still.

Our nightmare began June 6th, 2009.
We had just sat down to dinner after a hard day of yard work, when 3 policemen and a social worker pulled up our driveway. One of the officers then began to question my husband about a playdate the previous day that my child and a classmate had had at our house. Allegations were made that my husband had abused not only the classmate but OUR OWN daughter as well.
We were shocked beyond belief. The social worker forced us to make a "safety plan" for the safety of my child. This involved my husband leaving the house and being separated from my daughter and myself. If my husband did not voluntarily leave HIs/Our house, they would take our daughter away. Our daughter that was brought to us after a 21 month foreign adoption process; our daughter came to us when she was 13 months old; our daughter who was the light of our lives. Needless to say, THAT was NOT AN OPTION! So at the end of that weekend, my husband moved out and my daughter stayed with me;
From that point on, our single focus became clearing him of these allegations (they never even officially became charges) and getting our family back together as soon as possible. We would no longer worry about bills, or homework or what we would be doing on summer vacation. We were fighting for the life of our Family. Little did we know, nothing about this process would be done " ASAP". We were willing to do whatever had to be done to resolve this quickly. Unfortunately, we would learn instead that NOTHING we COULD do would make this go quickly. We learned the CPS game of "hurry up and wait."

The majority of families that go through this are falsely accused. The majority of families that go through this don't have attorneys that are familiar with the games that CPS plays. The majority of families that go through this don't have the time or the funds to mount an attack on this agency of destruction. We were one of the few.
We are doing this blog to inform others who may be in similar situations that we are not alone. There are things you can do to keep your family together. If you have a similar story, please add your story to this site.