Re: Termination of parent rights

["Julia H. Littell" <jlittell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd love to know what stats you come up with. I've been looking for this
information, too, without luck. The federal legislation you refer to is the
Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. I don't think it is fair to
characterize the stance prior to ASFA as a mandate to reunify families at
all costs! 


At 05:12 PM 10/6/2000 -0500, you wrote:
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>I would like to find some statistics on the number of cases in which
>parental rights are terminated each year.  I understand that there was a
>Federal legislative change in recent years that moved from mandating
>reunification of families at all cost to making it easier for parental
>rights to be terminated after a specific period of time (one year, perhaps?)
>if reunification did not seem achievable.
>
>Joyce Munsch
>Texas Tech University
>Lubbock, TX  79409 
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