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Actually, while the goal of Foster Care is always primarily reunification, foster care is meant to be temporary. In the areas I have experience with, you have to actively show that you are trying to provide a safe stable home. If a kid is in care for two years with an abusive/neglectful parent who is making no progress, their rights WILL be terminated and the child put up for adoption, they get no say in whether or not they terminate their rights.

nayrt but I wanted to comment because I've worked in foster care before.

Parental rights rarely get terminated. That is the sad fucking truth of it. You have these awful people who really fuck up their kids - I worked particularly in mental health services for kids with high behavioral problems that resulted directly from their horrible parents.

Here's the thing - foster care and adoption costs the state a LOT of money. And I'm not saying it's all about the money - what they really want is to get kids in permanent, "stable" homes and open foster homes/group homes up for other kids. It is generally in the state's best interest for both efficiency and financial reasons to let kids go back to shitty parents. Not to mention, blood relatives (especially parents) will always be prioritized because it can cause so much trouble down the line if you don't. Yeah, we do parental evaluations and such, but terminating rights completely doesn't happen half as often as you wish it did. I know. Most of the time I really wish parental rights would be terminated, but there you have it.

I've seen kids go back to shitty parents, but I've also seen the kids who's parental rights are terminated because mommy dearest decided not having kids anymore was AWESOME. I think it's a case of 'this is how it's SUPPOSED to work, but often times we skip over it because we have no funding.' And of course the occassional 'We all know they're abusive pieces of shit but since no one can actually prove it or get the kid to confess, we have t osend them home.'

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