NH bill to protect addicts' kids tweaked - News - fosters.com - Dover, NH:
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A House committee is recommending changes to a bill that attempts to protect New Hampshire's youngest residents from the state's growing opioid abuse crisis — a response to concerns raised by obstetricians. The bill passed by the Senate last month would add a parent's abuse of opioids or a baby's diagnosis of drug addiction to the state's definition of child abuse and neglect unless the parent was being treated for addiction. The goal is to allow the Division of Children, Youth and Families to get involved more quickly to protect children, but doctors said it could discourage drug-addicted pregnant women from getting prenatal care because they fear their newborn or other children could be taken away.
"The word on the street will be that DCYF will swoop in and take infants from their mothers shortly after birth if they're not in treatment," said Rep. Skip Berrien, a Democrat from Exeter.
Under current law, DCYF can't take actions such as overseeing supervision of children or placing them in foster care unless it can show actual harm from the drug abuse.
My Comment: What a crock of shit! Why then was my daughter Court-ordered OUT of Methadone treatment and her daughter stolen and adopted out by NH DCYF?????
It shows their real intent when the government won't allow grand parents or extended family keep the children in their care while working with the addicted parent to see if he or she can get clean and sober and stay that way. What CPS really wants is to make a lot of money for the state by placing in foster care and going through with a forced adoption process. They don't care a wit about the sanctity of family or the needs of the children to stay connected with their own family traditions, history, beliefs etc. They want control so they can manipulate the federal dollars to be directed where they choose.
ReplyDeleteYou are entirely CORRECT! It's all about the MONEY!
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