re: Termination of parent rights

[<pmaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (Penny Maza)]

The Children's Bureau has published an estimate of the number of children 
with termination of parental rights as of September 30, 1999.  The estimate 
is 46,000.  To find the Childen's Bureau's latest estimates on children in 
foster care and children adopted from the public foster care system, go to 
the Children's Bureau's WEB site  http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/  Under 
the section Foster Care and Adoption Statistics, there is a link to "Current 
Estimates as of October 2000".  The file is available in both html and pdf 
format.  As Rick Barth stated, this estimate does not distinguish between 
voluntary and involuntary terminations.

Penelope (Penny) L. Maza, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Research Analyst
330 C St., SW, Room 2427
Washington, D.C. 20447
202.205.8024 (voice)
202.401.5917 (fax)
pmaza@acf.dhhs.gov (E-mail)
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/


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From: "Munsch, Joyce" <JMunsch@cohs2.hs.ttu.edu>, on 10/9/00 8:52 AM:
To: SMTP@Public.11@ACF.WDC["Child Maltreatment Researchers" 
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>]


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