Public Law 105-89-TITLE I--REASONABLE EFFORTS-Do Not Exist In New Hampshire!

Public Law 105-89

TITLE I--REASONABLE EFFORTS AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION PLACEMENTS

SEC. 101. CLARIFICATION OF THE REASONABLE EFFORTS REQUIREMENT.

(a) In General.--Section 471(a)(15) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(15)) is amended to read as follows:

"(15) provides that--

"(A) in determining reasonable efforts to be made with respect to a child, as described in this paragraph, and in making such reasonable efforts, the child's health and safety shall be the paramount concern; "(B) except as provided in subparagraph (D), reasonable efforts shall be made to preserve and reunify families--

"(i) prior to the placement of a child in foster care, to prevent or eliminate the need for removing the child from the child's home; and "(ii) to make it possible for a child to safely return to the child's home;

This section is a joke in itself. When are children ever left in their homes with services? NEVER! Family Preservation is non-existent in NH!

"(C) if continuation of reasonable efforts of the type described in subparagraph (B) is determined to be inconsistent with the permanency plan for the child, reasonable efforts shall be made to place the child in a timely manner in accordance with the permanency plan, and to complete whatever steps are necessary to finalize the permanent placement of the child; "(D) reasonable efforts of the type described in subparagraph (B) shall not be required to be made with respect to a parent of a child if a court of competent jurisdiction has determined that--

"(i) the parent has subjected the child to aggravated circumstances (as defined in State law, which definition may include but need not be limited to abandonment, torture, chronic abuse, and sexual abuse); "(ii) the parent has--

"(I) committed murder (which would have been an offense under section 1111(a) of title 18, United States Code, if the offense had occurred in the special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of the United States) of another child of the parent; "(II) committed voluntary manslaughter (which would have been an offense under section 1112(a) of title 18, United States Code, if the offense had occurred in the special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of the United States) of another child of the parent; "(III) aided or abetted, attempted, conspired, or solicited to commit such a murder or such a voluntary manslaughter; or "(IV) committed a felony assault that results in serious bodily injury to the child or another child of the parent; or

"(iii) the parental rights of the parent to a sibling have been terminated involuntarily;

"(E) if reasonable efforts of the type described in subparagraph (B) are not made with respect to a child as a result of a determination made by a court of competent jurisdiction in accordance with subparagraph (D)--

"(i) a permanency hearing (as described in section 475(5)(C)) shall be held for the child within 30 days after the determination; and "(ii) reasonable efforts shall be made to place the child in a timely manner in accordance with the permanency plan, and to complete whatever steps are necessary to finalize the permanent placement of the child; and

"(F) reasonable efforts to place a child for adoption or with a legal guardian may be made concurrently with reasonable efforts of the type described in subparagraph (B);".

(b) Definition of Legal Guardianship.--Section 475 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 675) is amended by adding at the end the following:

"(7) The term 'legal guardianship' means a judicially created relationship between child and caretaker which is intended to be permanent and self-sustaining as evidenced by the transfer to the caretaker of the following parental rights with respect to the child: protection, education, care and control of the person, custody of the person, and decisionmaking. The term 'legal guardian' means the caretaker in such a relationship.".

(c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 472(a)(1) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 672(a)(1)) is amended by inserting "for a child" before "have been made". (d) Rule of Construction.--Part E of title IV of such Act (42 U.S.C. 670-679) is amended by inserting after section 477 the following:

42 USC 678

"SEC. 478. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.

"Nothing in this part shall be construed as precluding State courts from exercising their discretion to protect the health and safety of children in individual cases, including cases other than those described in section 471(a)(15)(D).".

Now Kid's are Retaliating!-Child Protection Service Employee Assaulted by Youths

Iceland Review Online: Daily News from Iceland, Current Affairs, Business, Politics, Sports, Culture

An employee of the Icelandic Child Protection Services was assaulted in a treatment center in Skagafjördur fjord on Monday night; the director of Child Protection Services says employees are never to be left alone while on duty.

Current Judges And Marital Masters Being Surveyed In The State Of NH

NH Attorney Jaye Rancourt an Unethical Attorney: Current Judges And Marital Masters Being Surveyed In The State Of NH

THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011
Current Judges And Marital Masters Being Surveyed In The State Of NH
Here is a list of Judges and Marital Masters currently being evaluated in the State of NH. If you have had dealings with these people or been an observer of them in court, please visit the states website and evaluate them. There is only a short window of opportunity to do this so act quickly before the deadline.

Click on the above link and fill out the survey!!!

Cosleeping Is Fine For A Child's Development and Behavior

Cosleeping Is Fine For A Child's Development and Behavior | Care2 Causes

It can be a very emotional issue if you choose to debate it: Whether to go to sleep with your children in your bed or whether to make them sleep in their own rooms. You’ll find plenty of parents on both sides of the argument, and plenty of parents on both sides of the sleep situation — and the bed — whether they planned to be in that situation or not (case in point: I coslept with my daughter for over a year until she simply started sleeping through the night in her crib). For those who are against cosleeping, it seemed for years that there was plenty of evidence on their side to back up their claims that it was harmful: Bad for sleep habits, bad for the child’s emotional development, just plain bad.

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THE PRICE OF PANIC, FLORIDA, 2011

National Coalition for Child Protection Reform / 53 Skyhill Road (Suite 202) / Alexandria, Virginia, 22314
(703) 212-2006 / www.nccpr.org / nccpr@nccpr.org

LINK HERE

THE PRICE OF PANIC, FLORIDA, 2011
By Richard Wexler, NCCPR Executive Director
Released April 26, 2011
The chart on page 4 shows the extent to which the outcry over the Barahona case has terrified
Florida DCF workers into tearing apart more families and throwing far more children into foster
care.
It is, of course, a foster/adoptive parent who is accused of killing Nubia Barahona and almost
killing her brother. By placing more children at risk of abuse in foster care itself, and by
overloading the system so more children in real danger are more likely to be missed, the
response to the death of Nubia Barahona is making the next such death more likely.
WHAT THE DATA SHOW

Teen who committed suicide had been in 22 foster homes

HeraldNet.com - Local news: Teen who committed suicide had been in 22 foster homes

The 14-year-old Yakama tribal dependent had been in 22 foster homes before jumping from an overpass onto I-5.
By Rikki King, Herald Writer


LYNNWOOD -- A boy who jumped to his death from a Lynnwood overpass in January had been on a waiting list for a bed at a state-run psychiatric hospital. He had been in 22 different foster homes since 1998.

Civil court: Adoptive father 'aided and abetted' child's 2006 suffocation

Civil court: Adoptive father 'aided and abetted' child's 2006 suffocation :: WRAL.com:

SMITHFIELD, N.C. — A civil court in Johnston County found in favor of five children Tuesday in a case against their adoptive father. According to the court, Johnny Paddock "aided and abetted" his wife, Lynn Paddock, who was convicted in the 2006 death of their adopted son, Sean Paddock, then 4.