The Illinois utmost Court recently ...

The Illinois utmost Court recently struck down the state law that allowed a parent's rights to be terminated based upon the length of time children exhausted in foster care. Since 1998 Illinois had declared parents "unfit" if their children had been in breed care with non-relatives for 15 of the previous 22 month still on Sept. 20, the court rul that factors beyond a parent's have the direction of such as court delays, might increase the time it takes for parents to come by their children back. In this case, a Kane shire woman, referred to in court papers as EW charged it was unfair to terminate her tights. Her trial was continued, and she argued the delay had nothing to do with her fitness as a mother. In January 1999 The Chicago Reporter rest that terminations of parental rights in give a color to County increased 'from 958 in 1993 to 3743 in 1997 Black families had the highest rate of termination. And an October 1999 Reporter investigation revealed that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services had an incentive-ba s payment method that encouraged caseworkers to terminate parental rights and push bring up parents into adoption more quickly.

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