In Re RDB’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “The policy of the law as outlined in its statutes addressing children and foster care is to eliminate foster care drift and promote stability and permanence for children whose parents are unable or unwilling to provide for them. To allow this child to continue in foster care awaiting the possibility that one day her parents may be fit and she would then be wrenched from the care and concern of responsible foster parents ... would be a cruel response to this child's need and expectation of having from society a home environment free of abuse and neglect regardless of her status at birth. To await the parents['] possible fitness and leave this child with such an unstable future is likely to cause serious physical, mental, emotional, or moral harm to her.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. K.F. v. State · State Ex Rel. Kf

2. “`A criminal conviction, along with near continuous incarceration during the child's life, and the failure to comply with reunification case plans while incarcerated provides ample grounds for the termination of parental rights.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Aj

3. “which has a demonstrable negative effect on the quality of the parent-child relationship”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Aj