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We have to get the kids out of foster homes and adopted much earlier

States have gotten kickbacks for numbers of kids in foster. Bionparents should get no more than 1 year to straighten up. After that rights get termed and adoption can take place. We basically have kids that are lifers in the foster system due to being slow to term parental rights.

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 @Raven-Thorn from Minnesota  commented…6mos6MO

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As a former foster child I disagree. My birth mom is the same as she was years ago, and unsuited to be a parent. The reason so many foster children are crowding the system, is because there isn't enough homes for them.

I've seen plenty of parents survive DV, SA, or get clean, sometimes it's due to homelessness, lack of family, etc. Respectfully, who are you to decide that parents should have a limit to prepare to reclaim their kids? If they are making the effort, that's what counts. This doesn't stop a child from finding a good foster home, lack of foster parents do, lack of resources for those parents...but, I'm just a survivor.

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