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Cara, who asked to keep her last name private, said she had already been in touch with a domesticviolence organization about her ex. And, according to its own brochure , the Plummer program encourages something called “concurrent planning” which further stacks the deck against families and in favor of foster parents who want to adopt.*
She is wrong about domesticviolence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. (If Rather they witnessed domesticviolence. Presumably witnessing domesticviolence again.
While researching my book, I interviewed a group of stewards for the caseworkers’ union in Massachusetts. During the trial, one expert after another said the same thing: Witnessing domesticviolence can be emotionally harmful for a child. Now let’s flash forward to 1989. It still happens, of course, but it happens less.
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Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. But the Administration for Childrens Services considers itself free to harass domesticviolence victims and their children by putting them under constant surveillance.
Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.
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