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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 687965" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>First thing worth mentioning is, that our child protection laws are different from USA. We don't have a concept of terminating parental rights. If a child needs to be taken into the care (either because of parents' actions or lack of, or because of child's own actions, in other words, kids who would end up to juvenile detention in your system end up to CPS care in ours) that doesn't cut parental rights, but court can rule that some custodial rights are temporarily on hands of CPS. And parents have a right to have a court to review a case every year. Parents also will have visitation rights and goal is always reunification even if kid has been in care for ten years.</p><p></p><p>Because of all that, our foster care is more institutional than average. Most common are smallish, but professional group homes, with usually 5 kids and many are quite specialised to certain type of kids. Our respite kids would be hard to place. They would be placed together but not with other siblings; severe special need sibling needs high level of care and will need rest of his life and younger ones would end up to their dads. Girlie and Boyo have somewhat different needs and there are not that many places, that would take both of them. They are also minority and have a right to be placed among that same heritage. Because of all that, it is very possible they would be placed to some distance from us, and that with mother's visiting rights, it is very possible visiting us would not be possible anymore even though law requires that CPS would do their best to uphold relationships like ours.</p><p></p><p>If we would become their longer term foster parents (technically we already are their foster parents, because they are now in the care and placed to us), we would have right to respite care if visits with mom would not be enough.</p><p></p><p>I see lots of hard time ahead of these kids, especially if they end up being removed from their mom, so it would be like parenting Ache time two all over again. That is exhausting idea. But we love these kids. We also do have resources and support network. But it would be quite a change for next 15 years from what we have planned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 687965, member: 14557"] First thing worth mentioning is, that our child protection laws are different from USA. We don't have a concept of terminating parental rights. If a child needs to be taken into the care (either because of parents' actions or lack of, or because of child's own actions, in other words, kids who would end up to juvenile detention in your system end up to CPS care in ours) that doesn't cut parental rights, but court can rule that some custodial rights are temporarily on hands of CPS. And parents have a right to have a court to review a case every year. Parents also will have visitation rights and goal is always reunification even if kid has been in care for ten years. Because of all that, our foster care is more institutional than average. Most common are smallish, but professional group homes, with usually 5 kids and many are quite specialised to certain type of kids. Our respite kids would be hard to place. They would be placed together but not with other siblings; severe special need sibling needs high level of care and will need rest of his life and younger ones would end up to their dads. Girlie and Boyo have somewhat different needs and there are not that many places, that would take both of them. They are also minority and have a right to be placed among that same heritage. Because of all that, it is very possible they would be placed to some distance from us, and that with mother's visiting rights, it is very possible visiting us would not be possible anymore even though law requires that CPS would do their best to uphold relationships like ours. If we would become their longer term foster parents (technically we already are their foster parents, because they are now in the care and placed to us), we would have right to respite care if visits with mom would not be enough. I see lots of hard time ahead of these kids, especially if they end up being removed from their mom, so it would be like parenting Ache time two all over again. That is exhausting idea. But we love these kids. We also do have resources and support network. But it would be quite a change for next 15 years from what we have planned. [/QUOTE]
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