The Wheels of Justice Turn Slowly

I attended a hearing in Family Court yesterday regarding The Toddler. This was the first time I got to meet the judge and all the lawyers involved in the case. The good news is that I think the judge really gets it and wants to do the right thing. The bad news is that the wheels of justice turn v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.

I can't really say much more except that the status quo has been extended until at least February.

I previously posted that, when TT first came to us, my aunt called to say that she knew a young childless couple who was interested in adopting and asked about TT. I told her that I thought taking TT would be a terrible idea because it was by no means clear whether she would be up for adoption and how long such a process might take. Of course, at that time neither MHW nor I had any idea that we would even be in the parsha of adoption. We were 50-year-old foster parents, not pre-adoptive parents (at least I was 50; MHW is a few years younger). Twenty-five months later, we still don't know how long such a process might take.