Re: Termination of parent rights

["clifton_lauralea" <clifton_lauralea@xxxxxxx>]

Joyce,

You might want to start with Texas number and I think you can find them at:
http://www.tdprs.state.tx.us/About_PRS/PRS_Statistics_&_Annual_Reports/leg99
htm/CPSIndex.htm#CPSindex

Lauralea Cox L.S.W.
Foster Home Specialist
lcox@lsss.org

Visit  www.lsss.org and see what Lutheran Social Services of the South, Inc.
is doing for the poor, elderly and children  in Texas.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Munsch, Joyce" <JMunsch@cohs2.hs.ttu.edu>
To: "Child Maltreatment Researchers"
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 5:12 PM
Subject: Termination of parent rights


>
> 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
>