Parent and Child – Termination

Our annual call to end child welfare’s public celebration of family executions

Saturday, on “National Adoption Day, who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults, every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty."  So why dosome of the very judges who order a family "executed" preside overpublic celebrations of the aftermath?   This …

Parent and Child – Termination

Where a respondent’s parental rights were terminated, the trial court clearly erred by finding that reasonable efforts to reunify the family were excused by aggravated circumstances. Vacated and remanded. “Respondent appeals as of right the trial court’s order terminating his parental rights to his biological child under MCL 712A.19b(3)(b)(i) (parent’s act caused abuse or injury),