Category: Child Protective Services
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HOW TO CALM A STORM
What’s your storm? LaNaya Schmoker Life never gave her many options on which path to choose.Just when she made it through one storm, another would roar to life.There were crying in the showers to the quiet nights lying in bed awake, overthinking and exhausted…But I am unable to sleep.Truthfully, she couldn’t tell you how she…
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Running out of time
I arrived at the health and human services office. I walk with my mother by my side into the room, it’s filled with people who never even know me. Only met in a passing. They all are smiling and encouraging me to surrender to sign over my parental rights. They all say it was in…
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Do you know your rights?
This article discusses how the mother’s emotional health is important for reunification or termination of parental rights cases, as well as other reasons. Why the issue needs to be addressed, by policymakers. Losing Hope Healing your bond when your children have been taken by CPS Child welfare system has caused many mothers to experience grief and…
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Adoption history
Terminology FQS birth parents The term “birth parent” was embraced by adoption reformers in the 1970s. The term satisfied at least two important needs. It made visible the people that practices like matching and policies like confidentiality and sealed records had tried so hard to erase. But it did not simply turn the tables…
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