Thursday, March 18, 2010
Is removal right?
Is it right for a child to be uprooted from their home and placed in a foster home when their parents have done something that health and welfare deems unfit? What I wonder is if it would be better for the child to remain with the parent while that parent is under heavy observation from health and welfare. That way the child doesn’t get removed from their comfort zone of home, and in most cases their school to go live with strangers. I can’t help but feel that being removed like that causes emotional and psychological damage to that child that they can carry with them for the rest of their lives. When children are removed from their homes their parents are given a case plan to complete, once they complete all of those things the child can return home. Why not allow the child stay with their parent while they work on their case plan and avoid putting the child through all that stress.
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I don't think that any child should ever be taken from their home but how far should the parents be allowed to go with doind wrong until health and welfare steps in. When the parents are not doing anything but hurting the child with their wrong actions then I think the child is already emotionally and psychological damaged. It does really suck for the child but when taking that child away from the parents I think it teaches the parents a very valuable lesson and that makes them want to change. I think that if you let the child continue to live with the parents then the parents will just think it is ok to do and never learn to change for their child.
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