In many states, adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for custody of their children.
  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
    241·
    1 year ago

    Lemme guess

    It’s all states with large indigenous populations still around.

    I can sympathize with foster parents that have a hard time letting go, dear friend of mine who’s been desperately trying to have kids of her own had to give a little baby that became her world back to the bio mom and it absolutely crushed her, but formulating an entire legal strategy around it just reeks of trying to get around court preference to return indigenous kids to their nation of origin if possible.

  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    520·
    1 year ago

    This is very common in regards to parents who use illegal drugs. If you give birth to a child and it has drugs in its system you will be deemed unfit. This includes alcohol or tobacco which can severely damage a child’s development.

    This article doesn’t do much more than state the obvious, drug use in parents is a sure way to lose your kids.

    • twice_twotimes@sh.itjust.works
      242·
      1 year ago

      The article says a lot more than the obvious, and really has very little to do with the topic of placing children in foster care. It’s not claiming infants shouldn’t be removed from unsafe homes or trusted to foster parents as long as those homes remain unsafe. It’s saying the foster system is being manipulated to the detriment of children, birth parents, and foster parents. The main family in this article is a shining example of when placing a child in foster care works perfectly, where the parents expediently turned things around and managed to bond with their child despite the tragic circumstances. The goal of foster care is to reunite families, and even in these ideal cases it’s easy to turn the system against its own goal.

    • Fraylor@lemm.ee
      51·
      1 year ago

      You clearly have no damn clue what you’re talking about. Having worked as a CPS investigator, there is far more involved than “hurr drugs r bad”. Please take your misinformation somewhere else.