Young mom Cerissa called Child Find concerned that her sister, Wendy, was refusing to return her 2-year-old daughter to her. Cerissa had given her daughter, Jordan, into Wendy’s care a year previously due to an unstable living situation, but now that Cerissa had a safe, … [Read more...]
The Long Journey Back – Adele’s Story
Adele, a South African national, contacted Child Find’s Parent Help program from overseas stating she had previously been living in North Carolina with her husband, a U.S. citizen. When they lived in North Carolina, Adele believed that he had applied for a marriage-based green … [Read more...]
To the Dark Web and Back
Missing children’s cases don’t often end tidily like a movie. The impact of parental abduction can have lasting negative effects on a child, and a parent’s effort to stabilize life is a messy affair. This story is no different, though its ending does offer us some hope and … [Read more...]
Custody, Divorce, Homelessness, and Abduction – A Complex Case
Joyce called Parent Help when her husband David abducted their 9-year old son, Christian. David and Joyce were living separately at the time of the abduction and Joyce was homeless with her other son, Jacob, in her care. The custody situation was complex because Joyce and David … [Read more...]
Safe, Settled, & Optimistic
In the course of one of many conversations Dad had with his Child Find caseworker, he stated that he felt he would be soon keeping his promise to put his daughter on the phone to say hello after their five-year struggle to be together. All signs indicated that decisions made by … [Read more...]
