People often contact me about posting things on my blog for them. I don’t usually even respond to these requests as I would prefer to not entertain all of these requests. No good at saying no so I avoid.
This story however, has wrenched my heart. Please read it —->HERE.
A few thousand people read this blog each day and someone out there has got to know someone or be someone who can help with this. At the very least, pray for this family. Remove judgment and show them the love of Christ that is so desperately needed during this time of living hell.
Thank you for your help in advance.
Ryan
i actually just finished reading through Raising a Psychopath, so i know there are other people out there…other families in similar situations.
it kills me that people will hurt their biological children, then give them up/have them taken away for other families, like the one in your link, to patch up. i truly wish there were a way to stop the circle of pain so these children can learn to live normal lives.
this family is in my thoughts.
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I’m a long time lurker and first time commenter…After reading angryboy’s story, I read a little more, I completely get where she’s coming from. I too adopted 2 little girls and am going through something similar (as she is with Vivi)with my youngest who is 6.
My prayers are with this family and wish for the best outcome.
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WOW…that is a heartbreaking story. My heart breaks for angryboy and his family. I completely understand her pain at the decision she has to make. How tragic.
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This was painful to read. I am praying this situation is resolved!
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WOW! Praying my guts out. I am not computer savy…don’t know how to do this….but can someone out there please send this story to Oprah??? She has so many connections – phsychiatrists, doctors, there has to be some help out there!
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My heart breaks for that family, and for that little boy. To finally come to the point, whether I agree or not, where you feel you need to put your son up for adoption, it has to be BAD. I am so sad that it has even come to this and I will be praying for him. I just don’t understand it all and I pray someone out there can help this little boy. It just seems like we can tell our kids that lying is wrong and stealing is wrong, but why can’t he get that the abuse is wrong? Especially when it all started when he was so young?? I wish there were something I could do, but I will lift this little boy up to the Lord and pray His hand would be on this family during this incredibly difficult time.
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I’m going to write this VERY carefully… I do not judge her for what she is doing. I don’t for a minute discount that what they have gone through is horrific. And yes, she MUST look after her other children.
That said, I remember watching a Dr Phil episode where the parents found out their son (biological) abused their daughter (also biological). They got him help and all the rest of it. It was heart breaking.
I must wonder… would she be placing him up for adoption or “disrupting” if he was her biological son? What WOULD hapen if a biological parent did that? I’m sure I could not. Get him help, yes. Put him in a facility, yes… have him live with another family, yes. But give him up? Make him no longer my son? Stop being his parent?
I hope this does not come across as accusatory… it’s just something I wondered. He is as much their son through adoption as a biological one… I didn’t think you could just give them away.
I wanted to ask her these questions, but she’s had enough haters on what must be such a nightmare of a time, I thought it best to leave it. Regardless of how kindly I mean my questions, over the net they can still appear harsh and insensitive. But if anyone has been through this and is willing to answer them, I’d appreciate it.
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I can’t even begin to imagine what this family is going through, and I will never, EVER understand anyone placing judgment on them. Casting the first stone, and all that.
People are curious, and perhaps that is understandable, but really – it’s none of our business, unless we are placed in the same position.
Thank you for posting this – the power of prayer is astounding.
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Wow! I feel for her…we had a similar situation happen in our family, but not quite this severe. The girl we had to give up was a foster child we planned to adopt, but my parents could never go through with it for many reasons – the first and foremost being the well-being of their other kids. So sad…
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Sorry, I’m going to judge here.
There are helpless children involved, and, (in my opinion), Corey Waters has received a little-bit TOO much support for her while her helpless children are abused, online, day after day.
The 10 year old daughter is not being homeschooled.
Nope-Waters says that “education is a privileged that must be earned”.
So, instead-of schooling, chores are being done.
That’s just the most obvious example of how Waters bends the rules to suit her own excuses for torturing children, but reading her blog made me frightened for ALL of the children being subjected to this treatment, and then blogged-about online, no judgment allowed unless you’ve “been there done that.”
Point being, I wouldn’t DO THAT!
stopchildtorture.org has a lot of info. about this “RAD” therapy that Waters is using, and the guy who calls himself a “DR.”
If WE don’t JUDGE, those children keep getting tortured. Sorry but I refuse to support that by remaining silent.
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Dear mutha – Just how much is TOO much support? Is there such a thing? I respect everyone’s right to their own opinion, and you’ve obviously given yours lots of thought.
Here’s a thought, do you have anything helpful or constructive to suggest? Or is the extent of your ‘help’ the judgement you are passing?
I will now pray for you as well as the Waters family.
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Thank you Sarah Flores! Well said!
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Dear friends,
Do not worry about “mutha.” This individual is a stalker who has followed our family all over the internet spreading lies about us. She and the organization of which she speaks have harassed Dr. Federici, Heather Forbes, Gregory Keck, Dan Hughes, and Dan Ziegler for years. She has threatened to make false allegations to CPS against our family. Her only desire is to harass us.
What then, shall I say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)
To Jen: This is a valid question, because we do consider our (adopted) children our children in as full a sense as we do our (biological) child. I have answered this question in full here:
http://watchingthewaters.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/family-needed/#comment-1859
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Corey Waters is one sick individual in my opinion. Adopts a kid and then gives him away like a a stray dog. If this was a bio kid you can be sure she wouldn’t be permitted to do this. I think she adopts these kids for her own desperate need for attention. Munchausen’s anyone??
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And by the way, I agree with Murtha 100%. Waters is an attention whore. Hopefully someone from DYFS has stopped her from collecting children from Haiti for her own twisted attention seeking needs.
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Don’t feel sorry for this woman for too long. She dumped her kid, never visits him and rents a beautiful house in Florida so she can vacation. Here’s the really sickening part. She gets this kid from Haiti, decides he’s just too tough for her and dumps him on our Medicaid system. Thanks lady. Just what we need. Your cast off that WE all have to pay for while you go vacation in Florida. What a total POS. Somehow the government should charge this woman for the care of this kid rather than have US pay for him while she spends her money on vacations.
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There seems to be something very wrong with that picture. How is it she can get away with not educating the daughter? Why doesn’t the school district look into that? This mother seems to thrive on attention for herself. That’s what her entire blog seems to be about.
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A story on NBC News tonight about a U.S. couple adopting some Haitian children really bothered me. It was pretty much a fluff and feel-good story, featuring the happy and smiling (white) couple hugging and playing with their cute-as-a-button little (black) Haitian boys, talking about how thrilled they were to finally get the children out of Haiti.
They’d started adoption proceedings before the earthquake, from an earlier visit to Haiti when they had picked the kids out at an orphanage.
All sort of sweet and warm-and-fuzzy sounding, until the newsreader came to the real kicker — the boys’ mother is alive, she only gave them up to the orphanage because she was too poor to feed them.
And there was the American woman, waxing all emotional about how wonderful it was for the boys’ mother to make such a “noble sacrifice” of giving up her children so the boys “could have a better life.”
That’s where my head exploded. Excuse me? What the hell kind of fucking phony compassion is it to just swoop in and and grab up some children and haul them thousands of miles away because their mother was so impoverished that she had to give them up? Wouldn’t REAL compassion be doing something for the mother so that she COULD afford to keep her own babies?
These aren’t puppies they’re picking out from an animal shelter — although that certainly seems like a remarkably similar paradigm as to how this couple went about “picking out” these children — these are human beings who are being hauled away from any possible familial connection that exists in their native country. These are children who no doubt have grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins and possibly siblings who they will now be out of reach from for years to come.
And their mother — how is it that these smiling Americans seem to have no thought that she might be experiencing unbelievable pain at being parted from her children due to strictly economic reasons beyond her control? That her life is such hell that she had no hope? It’s like the mother doesn’t count as a human being deserving of a better life herself, so that she could keep and raise her own babies.
Nope, the babies went on the market, and the happy consumers swooped in and picked up a bargain.
And the kids are just so darned cute. Like puppies.
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