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This 18 page paper provides an overview of the reasons and processes involved in the termination of parental rights. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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seeking to put their children up for adoption would start a process by which their parental rights would be terminated, and individuals who have demonstrated parental neglect or abuse might
have their parental rights terminated by a family court process. In either case, the legal process by which these rights are terminated requires consideration both of the background of
the issues leading to termination of parental rights and the influence that this process has on the child. Parental Rights and the Law For many years, family law
has focused on maintaining continuity in the family and reuniting family members, even after children have been placed in the foster care system. When children are removed from a
home because of abuse or when parents are deemed unfit or unable (primarily due to jail time) to care for them, the foster care system takes over. The increasing
number of children in the foster care system led to the call for legislative change, with a focus on allowing foster families to adopt children following the termination of parental
rights. Many states have sought to implement legislation to protect the best interests of the child by supporting faster termination of parental rights and faster adoption proceedings for foster
parents. The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (P.L. 104-89) (ASFA) was passed because of children like Cornilous Pixley, an African American child who was placed with a
white foster mother, because his birth mother, Latrena Pixley, was completing a jail sentence for murdering her 5-week-old daughter.1 Although the foster mother, Laura Blankman, a Maryland police officer, cared
for Cornilous from the age of three-months-old, when the birth mother was released , Circuit Court Judge Michael Mason order the boy returned to Pixley.2 Blankman is still appealing
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