Severe lack of happy:
So I'm really not in a position to adopt or otherwise assume custody of this kid. Talking with her father was, predictably, fruitless. He wasted my time
talking about ranting and frothing how the country is going to hell from overspending while thrusting the burden and cost of caring for his own daughter on the state solely because she is gay.... I can't take care of his kid; he can but won't take care of his kid. This means the state will probably end up doing it unless someone can locate relatives willing to take her in.... She's actually an exceptionally nice person and we've been doing some light hanging out while she puts in some calls to other family (some of which have not been productive at all). Clearly, our arrangement has to end very shortly and she realizes that she is only with me for the moment due to favors I pulled with particularly nice and overworked social workers. She still wants to believe her father will take her back, but knows better. I've moved on from the desire to murder him to the desire to see if I can pull to have him
criminally charged, but both these desires are tempered by the fact that he is his household's sole breadwinner and the other members will suffer if he is prosecuted. Part of me is glad that it really isn't my choice whether or not to have him criminally charged (I don't work for the state). In the meantime, I will help clean up the fucking mess you've made sir....
So looks like she's going to face
this and she's looking at a rough way of it through foster care. I'm not an adoption placement agency or her GAL, but it's possible I might be able to wrangle up a private adoption. That said, Ohio's laws about gays adopting aren't the worst in the country but unofficially they strangely frown upon it even when the parents and the kid are all gay.
Currently overworked, underpaid, and without any time for this. I'll reiterate in summation how I think this country's treatment of its gays, children or otherwise, is unconscionably monstrous and leave it at that.
I recently answered a request for advice from a younger user on this form who seriously thinks they are transsexual with, "anything you get from me will be cynical and perhaps somewhat paranoid," and what basically adds up to, "I'm far too vengeful to be a good role model." Both true, and so far as I'm concerned, both entirely and unconditionally justified.