Not gonna go into too much detail, but I had to go pick up my nephew because his mom got arrested yet again. This time is different though because she's probably going away for a long time. We're dealing with family services now, and they want us to pay a bunch of court related costs to be able to keep him out of foster care. Drug tests, classes, ect. I don't even know if we'll be able to keep him after everything, but I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't at least try.

My cashapp is $thenewcashtag and anything is appreciated at this point.

Edit: y'all are the fucking best. People have already sent almost enough for us to get both of our drug tests. I was so scared he was going to be sent into foster care because I was too poor to play the court's games. We still have more we need to do, but the shit they expect us to pay today is covered, and that was the real concern. Thank you guys so fucking much.

This is a ridiculous request, but my nephew just asked so I'm going to put it on here in case anybody has them. If anybody here happens to play Roblox and has some Robux they're not using, he'd love to get some models for the games he's making. I'm pretty critical of Roblox, but right now I'd rather just be supportive of a constructive coping mechanism. If I knew my childhood password, I'd have given him what's on there.

  • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]
    hexagon
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    11 months ago

    I know, this whole thing has been ridiculous. Happened at 4am on Sunday morning and they told us a bunch of shit we need to do before court. We were supposed to to everything on the day that everything court related is closed. On top of that, we're just randomly expected to cough up hundreds of dollars for related costs with only 36 hours to do it?

    I posted here because separate from the horror that is the foster care system, this is a microcosm of class war. If people here hadn't donated today, we could have not been able to pay for the drug test and they would have just assumed we were "dirty for everything". We could have been deemed unfit, and potentially had a case open up surrounding our actual kid. All because we didn't have $120 in savings.