I guess this could apply to all federal civil service jobs

Probably not, considering the fact that those questions are way out of line. Tax collection, environmental protection, and law enforcement should be carried out without a political agenda. This practice needs to be stopped immediately. Now things can get cleaned and reamed.
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Clarence:
How to deal with my mom being gone for two years? (This will be a longer one)?
(29 November 2016)

Clarence:
I live with my stepmom and dad and 5 siblings now.
(29 November 2016)

Clarence:
It's been hard to deal with that lately and I was hoping for some advice.
(29 November 2016)

Clarence:
I don't know whether to be angry at her or not for not trying to see me and my sisters and for cheating on my dad and everything or not.
(29 November 2016)

Clarence:
I haven't seen her or my sisters down in Medford or any of my aunts, uncles, grandparents,etc on that side of my family either.
(29 November 2016)

Clarence:
We moved to Salem two years ago and she lives in Medford.
(29 November 2016)

Clarence:
It stayed that way for a while but her visits started getting farther and farther apart.
(29 November 2016)

Clarence:
When we moved back to Oregon from Wisconsin several years ago it was worked out that she would take us every other weekend.
(29 November 2016)

Clarence:
I learned all of this recently in the last couple of months.
(29 November 2016)

Clarence:
She met my current stepdad at his funeral, and it turns out the man was my stepdads brother, so technically he's my uncle who died.
(29 November 2016)