Quote From: swarren8703I would like to tell you a little bit about a little boy by the name of Brant Warren. This 9 year old has lived a very hard childhood since the day he was born. His biological mother was not ready to care for a baby. Before he was 9 months old, she had moved 11 times, married and divorced once (not to his Dad), and left Brant at friends, Grandparents, Dads, and his Uncles homes more then she took care of him herself. At age15 months old, the courts gave his Dad full custody. Dad gave up his farm house and move back to our house in order to have help raising his son and still work. They lived with us for 4 years; however, Dad met and fell in love with a student at OSU. They became engaged and married just before Brant turned 4. Within a year, Brant biological mother gave up all rights and let Brant's step mother adopt him. All was good for about one years. Brant learned to love and trust his new mother. Then Mom became pregnant for her own child. During the pregnancy things seemed to change. Brant didn't made Mom happy most of the time. She let him know that he was dirty, unacceptable and bad. Things deteriorated over the next few months, getting a little worse after Brants little brother was born. Brant started to rebel towards his mother to the point that Mom and Dad thought that something was wrong with him. He was placed in Kettering Children's psychiatric hospital for evaluation. After 6 days evaluation, the doctors found that Brant had no problems other then ADHD and server depression. When Brant was due to come home, Mom decided to leave. She told Brant that she was leaving because he was such a bad kid and she would not be coming home until he was good. That was 1 1/2 years ago. She left with his little brother and moved to Newark. Brant has only seen his brother 3-4 times since.
Meanwhile , Dad worked hard to reunited this family by getting a counselor for his wife, a counselor for his son, a family counselor, and (by order of Kettering) a Psychiatrist for Brant to deal with his lose; all at great cost. As Dad needed to be home when the school bus picked his son up at 8, and be home to get his son off the bus, his employer could not deal with all these problems. As construction work took a turn for the worse, an order came down for lay offs, and Dad was one of the first to go.
Brant's Dad looked hard for a job for the next 6 month while all his bills took a hard hit. When Dad was the only income of the house, he was barely keeping his heard above water, but now he was sinking. During this time, divorce papers were mailed to him and they would prevent him from seeing his youngest son, so he needed to procure his own attorney with the last of his savings. Dad has now (less the a month ago) started a new job, but they are looking at loosing their home. Dad has it up for sale, but with the down turn in housing sales, he is up side down on his loan. He sees no way to keep it and Brant will loose again.
I'm telling you about this little 9 year old boy because he came to me and was worried about HIS father. He worries that he doesn't love him any more or that he doesn't want him around any more. I too worry about him to the point of having nightmare about him killing himself to get out from all his problems. The lost of his wife, son, job, home, credit, and maybe his car, lawn mower, and the trailer that hauls it (everything in his life except his oldest son) is weighting him down to a point of lucking him into inactivity. He seems to sit on his sofa, and email, text messages to friends, or playing game. This is now he is escaping out of his world. Unforturnitly, his son thinks Dad is escaping him.
This has brought me to tears! I feel for them. How dare that "mother" who adopted him when all was "well" turn her back on him. She obviously is selfish and doesn't love anyone but herself. That poor little boy. Kids shouldn't worry about their parents...it should be the other way around.
My son worries about his bio dad because he is bi-polar and a recovering drug addict. I have FULL custody and always will.
I sure hope that the dad you are speaking of can at least move home w/his parents or some close friend or relative and get back on his feet. At least he has his son. His ex wife and visitation will work out eventually...although it will be a long, emotional road ahead. I pray he will be ok.
It makes me very thankful that even though all the bad I"ve had...I've got a world of good now. I am so thankful!!