The foster care system is broken

This is a long post so forgive me, I need to vent. My wife and I took in a brother and sister back in January, the young girl is about to turn 2 next month and the boy will be 5 in November. At the time the social workers as a prerequisite before placement, asked us if we'd be open to adopting as they didn't want to keep moving the kids and harming their development, we are their 4th foster home since they've been in the system. We were and are more than willing to do that so we took them in and the change we've seen in these kids has been amazing, they are almost unrecognizable from the children that were placed with us in January and we've obviously grown attached.

Fast forward to the last couple of months, both parents were put back in jail for meth and gang related activities in April. When the bio Mom went in she was 6 months pregnant and still using meth. How a mother could do that is beyond me. Well she got out a month ago, and has been clean, and had her newborn. Because of choices she made, the kid was born addicted and going thru withdrawals, and apparently she had untreated syphillis which was passed on the newborn, its a miracle the child was actually even born. Originally the state wanted us to take on the newborn but we just don't have the ability to take on another kid especially one that is going to need so much extra care. Add to that, our closest hospital is over an hour away, that kid is going to need to be close to a hospital.

Well, ever since we said we couldn't take on the third child the script was flipped. At first they said they were going to find a home that could take on all three kids. They were unsuccessful with that so what is the brilliant solution our state has come up with? Their solution is to trust the mother who has been clean one month, one fricking month, who doesn't have a job, doesn't have transportation, lives in someone's attic, and doesn't have a family support system to help out to take on her three kids.

We just recently found out that when the state removed the kids, they were in a meth house that was so dirty you couldn't see the floors thru the trash. Our younger girl was in a diaper that hadn't been changed in days, and when the state workers asked where the diapers were the methed out grandmother couldn't find any clean ones as she sifted thru the trash. When they found the boy, he was sleeping in a bed with two loaded guns.

All that to say, they are completely different kids now, the older boy is now playing sports, starts pre k next month. He can actually talk now, something he couldn't do back in January. Our young girl is thriving and if given a chance is smart as hell. I get that the government wants to keep the siblings together but this is doing more harm than good to these kids but because of government bureaucracy they are going to trust a lady that for the last two years didn't do a damn thing to get her kids back, who has been clean all of one month, to take back her three kids under 5. Sorry for the long rant, but I hate the government and just how idiotic they can be because of policy