A Delicate Task: Balancing the Rights of Children and Mothers in Parental Termination Proceedings
| dc.creator | Ross, C. J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-19T16:27:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-09-19T16:27:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description | This article considers the independent liberty interests of children in foster care and their mothers in parental termination proceedings. Federal reforms enacted in 1997 impose a mandatory deadline for the state to terminate parental rights. That policy erroneously presumes that the passage of time suffices to establish parental fault and satisfies a parent's due process rights to her child. The policy also fails to protect the minority of children in foster care who assert an interest in preserving a safe relationship with mothers who are unlikely to regain custody within the state's time frame - including many substance abusers, incarcerated parents and victims of domestic violence. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11212/1107 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID894622_code283370.pdf?abstractid=894622&mirid=1 | |
| dc.source | In: Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick, eds., STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS AND SOCIETY, Elsevier, 2004. (G | |
| dc.subject | Violence -- domestic | |
| dc.subject | Substance abuse | |
| dc.subject | Neglect | |
| dc.subject | Investigation - child abuse | |
| dc.title | A Delicate Task: Balancing the Rights of Children and Mothers in Parental Termination Proceedings |