NJ: In New Jersey, children’s needs disregarded as blood ties take precedence over attachment and timely permanency (Opinion)
Child Welfare Monitor – June 15, 2022
There is strong evidence that these disruptions are harmful to young children given the attachments they form to their early caregivers. For this reason, a federal law is designed to curb this practice. Talking to foster parents and advocates revealed a conjunction of policy changes, agency culture and circumstances in New Jersey that are resulting in very young children being removed from stable pre-adoptive homes after as much as three years in these homes, starting in infancy or toddlerhood. But a group of advocates is determined to protect these vulnerable children by showing legislators the reality behind the state’s pious pronouncements about the importance of biological family.
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https://childwelfaremonitor.org/2022/06/15/in-new-jersey-childrens-needs-disregarded-as-blood-ties-take-precedence-over-attachment-and-timely-permanency/