What a nightmare here in Florida it was to adopt a child. We had a baby placed with us July of 2012, and was told we would be able to adopt by November or December 2012.  Her dad had voluntary relinquished his parental right and the Mother hadn’t done anything to keep the baby. She never stopped drinking or doing drugs… any drug she could get her hands on.  Neither attended any classes or NEVER passed a drug test. Well we missed those dates and then was told it would be March… then July, then Sept. 24, Oct 15, and finally Oct. 22, 2013 we were able to adopt the most beautiful baby in the world.  The reason was “Eckerd Youth Alternatives” could receive funds for a certain period of time and since we were a NO PROBLEM case they wanted to suck all the funds out before allowing us to adopt. Typical government subcontractors huh?

“Eckerd Youth Alternatives” who was the case managers in charge was a joke. Well, our first case manager we had was very good and I’d never say anything bad about her, but once it went to adoption … to say it as nice as I can, “It was a cluster fuck”. It was one fuck up after the next,  one excuse after the next, always blaming someone else for the mistakes. Never admitting anything was their fault and constantly lying about everything. There is a word that describes the process… INCOMPETENCE!  From our case manager to her supervisor. I lost count on how many lies we caught them in. No ethics whatsoever!

It got so bad we wrote the governor and ask for help! But they work under him and he’s no better than they are. Rick Scott thanks for nothing! I’ll be talking as many people as I can to NOT vote for you. You’re opponent couldn’t be as bad as you are. I guess there was no money to grease the pockets so we got NO help? Zero help from our governor who proclaims to be a big supporter of adoption.

BUT, as of Oct. 22, 2013 the adoption is done. If it hadn’t been for my wife constantly calling and going over their heads to the top people it would have been sometime in 2014.