Meanwhile, in the "it just keeps getting worse and worse the more you read" department . . . .
"J.P. is the youngest of nine children. All his siblings were
involved in dependency proceedings at one time or another, and
two found adoptive homes several years before J.P. was born.
J.P. was born in 2006 and has been in the juvenile dependency
system almost his entire life. . . . He was removed from mother’s home in May 2011 after she was
arrested for assaulting her boyfriend with a deadly weapon. . . . Adoption was originally identified as the permanent plan
for J.P., but his mental and emotional health never stabilized to
the point where a long-term foster home, let alone a prospective
adoptive home, could be identified. Between November 2011 and
July 2014, J.P. attempted suicide and had numerous involuntary
psychiatric hospitalizations."
Man oh man.