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Podcast: Slam the Gavel
Episode: Marcia Wrick Speaks Out On Her Ordeal With CPS, How It Affected Her Family And Foster Care
Description: Slam the Gavel welcomes Marcia Wrick. She and her two children began their ordeal with CSD in Portland, Oregon in 1991, during which time her husband abandoned the family and Mother died.
Her parental rights were terminated after a nearly 3-year battle and successfully completing multiple service plans. Marcia moved and remarried, eventually having to endure a costly fight to keep from having her son removed at birth due to a “history” with children's services. She was able win that case and leave the hospital with her son, who is now 21.
Her two children were...