Poems in the wild #36

Poem #36 (2 of diamonds) was put in a be-stickered enveloped addressed to "The Dead Letter Office" and posted into a post box in Box Hill.

Please say yes or no for the
benefit of the tape.
We had been informed that
you became a parent without
a formal certificate or even
informal training.
Is this correct?
This new human, as of
the seventeenth of January,
two-thousand-and-nine
has not approved you as carer.
Recognise this formal caution:
your child may reside with you
and you may be tolerated
pending adulthood, as per.