termination of parental rights

I was lost when the courts eventually decided to terminate my mom’s parental rights, writes Jessica Castillo.

Hennepin County program offers expectant mothers assistance to avoid another foster care removal in the family.

A case that challenges the severity of termination of parental rights practices in Michigan has made it to the state Supreme Court.

A selection of The Imprint’s most impactful stories from the past year

A new Minnesota law gives people facing termination of parental rights guaranteed access to appeals counsel and other services.

A report from Human Rights Watch and the ACLU highlights the harms of the U.S. child welfare system and recommends reforms.

Early legal counsel, the termination of parental rights, and ideas around peer support were among the issues The Imprint covered in 2021.

As federal policy on child welfare aims to help parents build strong bonds with their children so that fewer kids end up in foster care, a pair of bills in Wisconsin propose new grounds for terminating parental rights.

The number of youth in foster care dropped by 4.5% between September of 2019 and 2020, according to annual federal data, reaching the lowest total in the past eight years, while adoptions from foster care plummeted as the coronavirus pandemic spread in America.