Friday, February 02, 2007

Should Children be Reunited with Birth Parents Three Years after Termination

Please check out Senate Bill #5452 and, if you wish, one response to the bill.

What would be the ramifications of such a bill on the children waiting to be adopted and those who are attempting to recruit families for them?

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2 Comments:

Blogger Terrie said...

Hello, I am a mom thru adoption as well as my husband and I were also foster parents to many children in the past.

My biggest concern is that this could be another avenue to assist parents to try to gain custody after it was obvious that their parenting abilities in the past were deficient enough to terminate their parental rights. Sadly I have seen few biological parents have a huge change of circumstances to be able to regain custody of their child at a later time. Also this would usually only be available for those children that linger in the system those that either have some serious mental health issues or medical issues or sadly are older children that make it more difficult to place them in an forever home.

I have some serious issues with this bill. I am not sure its going to be used alot as I am not that sure that the majority of the children that could possibly gain from it are going to have a birthparent that would quilify under the terms of the bill.

12:40 PM  
Blogger Think Tank Moderator said...

Gina, a CPS worker in TX, comments:

The way I read the bill is if the parents are able to get their act together
and the kids have to want to go back. Majority of the parents never get
their act together so most of the kids would never have that option. There
is also the factor of the handicapped kids. I have kids that are very
handicapped due to abuse they sustained, and kids who were given to CPS
because the parent didn't want a handicap kid. I don't see that crew going
back to their parents.
I have heard of situations with kids who are teenagers, and have never made
it to the adoption unit because of severe behavior and psychotic issues, and
appropriate family members being sought out to place them after being in
foster care for several years. I know in one case none were ever found. If
a 3 year limit was placed on kids in adoption, we would have a lot of kids
coming back into custody, and that would be a double trauma to the kids.

8:02 AM  

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