June 17, 2014

Deidre Mott Singleton
PO Box 39877
Philadelphia, PA. 19107

Email: deidre_singleton@hotmail.com
Phone: 804-304-8649

RE: Foot Prints Exposing My Effort on Behalf of My Posterity

Greetings My Fellow American-Earthlings!!!
	Enclosed is a copy of a letter I have recently sent (6-16-2014) to Child Protective Services (CPS) in Aiken SC. If you are in receipt of this notice it is because I deem you to be amongst the influentials of our time. Thank you for your time, attention, and consideration. I am attempting to be proactive on behalf of my 2-teen sons, RQue and Terrence Singleton (ages 17 and 15 years respectively). These young men were born with Silver Spoons in their mouths NOT by accident but by design (both of their parents were Officers in the United States Army). In 2002 the children’s family was reversibly-broken and in 2004 it was irreversibly-annihilated.  I am a realist, I recognize that the United States of America is a ‘victim’s nation’ in my humble opinion. There is no help or empathy for those of us who are proactive and become the authors of the tears we cry (as opposed to being victims and crying the tears predetermined by others). Our government supports widows, orphans, victims of domestic violence and those who fall victim to their life’s circumstances such as drug addicts and prisoners. I am limited as to what I can do regarding the aforementioned circumstances. Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”. The insane, reality is that I do not know what else to do when I feel my proverbial walls closing in, except to reach out to those who will be the most affected by what I conclude to be my ‘last’ resort.  This feels like De javu for me. In 2002 I wrote to my in-laws and my baby-daddy’s playmate…it all fell on deaf ears, they all sat idly by until the unthinkable and irreversibly occurred. My website regarding my sons is www.2singletonboyz.com you can view the letters I wrote. Instead of family or ex-inlaws, I am writing you. I have posted on the Facebook page I created for my sons (Reginald Terrence Mottsington is the username).  
I expect nothing; my purpose for sending out these letters is so that there is record and footprint of my efforts and desire to act within the boundaries of the laws of this land on behalf of my posterity. 
	It is the children whose life is in jeopardy of being compromised due the fact that they are candidates for poor choices in their youth or as young adults such as inappropriate sexual relationships, drug use/abuse, and compromised liberties (activation of the 13 amendment of our constitution).
My sons will NOT be ensnared in the judicial system or frequent drug houses while their paternal grandmother (the catalyst to the dysfunction within their family) goes about her daily routines!  We see it all too often, these young people lose their way and the adults are left scratching their heads, wondering what went awry?  I will do what needs to be done to be proactive on behalf of my offspring to overt any additional elder imposed calamity (I prefer intervention over calamity). 
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body” (Elizabeth Stone). Those sentiments are how I feel and I will act on behalf of my two wandering hearts. My plea is to have options other than that which I have decided to be the calm to this storm. My children are NOT babies anymore, yet without knowing their wishes I can only make choices for them as I did when they were embryos. I am excited about what the future may hold for me, I am in the ‘All But Dissertation’ phase of completing my Doctoral Program in Public Health…the World is still my oyster but with two wandering hearts and one life to give for their ‘leg-up’ in life….(sigh)!!!  Makes it apparent that my future is uncertain. I know-not how this chapter of my life will end; so, I will say nothing of it.  
 As with any passionate plea, manifesto, compendium, memorandum, final words or whatever this will turn out to be, One can never say all that they need or want to say so I will close and pray for relief regarding these matters. 

Sincerely,

Deidre

P.S.
Contact Info for Child Protective Service:
DSS Intake for CPS
P.O. Drawer 1268
Aiken, SC. 29801
Phone: 803-642-2601