It's a long story I'll share one day, but for now I'll tell you that me fostering two boys from this family was not done through the state. The woman actually gave me her son. She didn't want him any more...at least in her home. So when I turned her into CPS there was the very real chance that the boy I had (and his younger brother a couple of years later) would have ended up in state care or in the foster care system. But it was not meant to be. I believe there was some divine intervention or something because none of the kids were taken out of her home. She was doing drugs, the house was waaaay beyond filthy, and she was having her two little girls join her in bed with men visitors! And... well, other stuff too. So that the kids were not taken still surprises me. But by the grace of God I was able to raise the two boys and they turned out pretty good, all things considered. They are now 28 and 24 and work for my son. He is a painting contractor.

Perhaps, because it is Nevada, and we get so many transient people here, so many homeless families living on the streets, the State simply had no place for the kids to go so they left them in place. Thats probably what happened. The incidence of this type of thing is much higher here than in most states.