Saturday, January 10, 2009

A Joyous Reunion...See KING5 "Up Front" On Sunday


A Joyous Reunion For Doug And AnneMarie Stuth!
http://www.king5.com/video/upfront-index.html?nvid=320475.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

such a sweet picture. I spent this evening reading through all of your blogs on this. It struck me how many times you thought this was close to being over. That's the tactics though. I watched my sister in law go downhill after a huge tragedy in her life, not long after CPS had picked up her kids. Every few weeks it was just about over, she just had to do this and the kids would come home, she just had to complete this class and the kids would come home. Every time she jumped one hurdle another was presented. Family tried to step in but she was terrified to rock the boat, didn't want things to start over again. It went this way until the day she permanently lost them. All she really needed in the first place was a helping hand, maybe a few months of daycare so she could get some much needed grief counseling. Maybe a few months of financial help and things would have been o.k. But unfortunately instead she got ripped apart and she has never been o.k. again

January 10, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Anonymous said...

Oh Yes, I definitely will be watching for you on up front on Sunday. I want so badly for who ever tunes in, to see just what this family went through and how much still needs to be done to get rid of this money sucking monster. A private company would never be allowed to get away with such atrocities. Yet our own government is running rampant over the citizens of the United States stealing children in the name of the Best interest of the child/ren! It must be stopped and you have proved they can be wounded. Although I am pretty sure the Governor is working hard on damage control right now.

January 10, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Anonymous said...

Is anyone recording this TV show? It would be of interest to me to get some CDs made of it to hand out to grandparents as I am out getting petitions signed.
Jan Smith

January 11, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Anonymous said...

Thank you for your efforts on behalf of this family and all the others that will come as this arm of government is not going to be dismantled anytime soon.
Here in Vermont, on January 1, 2009, the prefential placement of children with relatives goes into effect rather than having those children enter foster care.
This case is a perfect reminder that even with this law in place that there are so many layers of change that need to be incorporated into our policies and practices before we ensure that the same tragedy is not occurring in all 50 states...I can't help but wonder if federal legislation has had some "unintended consequences" through the reimbursement practices for foster care and adoption services. In Vermont, as it must be elsewhere, is that children taken into custody must be reunited within a certain period of time or the process is triggered to make the "available for adoption." That window is not very big - 15 months I believe - and my experience has been that when there is a problem, significant enough to warrant taking a child into protective custody - that a little over a year is not enough time to help a parent (a teen, one with mental health or substance abuse, one living in abject poverty, or, or, or)gain the footing and/or skills and stability to be reunited...we need as a nation to look at every facet of the problem through the lens of kinship and without the bias and bigotry that likens and labels families as part of the problem rather than part of the solution...

January 11, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Anonymous said...

Good job on the King 5 Up Front show. You had good presence and really did an excellent presentation of the issues with the time they gave you.

"Awesome use of the language, Dude."

January 11, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Anonymous said...

Pam - Bless your heart for the support and hard work you have done for this family, they truly deserve it!
There are a lot of people out there who can relate to the pain this family has experienced at the hands of DSHS and that is a very sad fact.
You are a ray of hope in the utter darkness of DSHS.
I'll be watching!
THANK YOU!!!

January 11, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Anonymous said...

Praise God.

I cannot wait for my own family reunion with my nieces.

This story gives me hope.

Terrorized in Texas by CPS

January 11, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Anonymous said...

All I can say is Thank God for all that put these monsters in the spotlight. Had they not been slapped on the TV screens of thousands of Washington's taxpayers they would have never returned this child. Their goal is revenue from the federal government. I would bet that a worker that adopts out a child to a foster parent gets some kind of preformance bonus.
It should be a worker that keeps a family together has done a good job and is rewarded. What is social work about? Money or sucsess?
I am estactic that this child is home where she belongs and should have always been.
I have seen so much over the past 8 years. I had never imagined people could actually be such low life, rotten, out for the kill kind of beings.
This year I see hope, because people are not going to put up with it anymore. I know I am not!
Thank you Pam for you honest hard work and service to the people of Washington. Blessings
Elaine Wolcott-Ehrhardt
Washington Families United/President

January 12, 2009 at 8:37 PM

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