Grandparents vie with foster parents to adopt girl By Amy Crawford
Dear Amy Crawford,
The article is a most important one for you to explore and I feel compelled to expand on these issues with experience that stems from my own advocacy efforts.
Grandparents have much to offer, but far most, a loving commitment that is already present within the bond of kin. I cannot fathom the pain that these folks must be facing in a struggle to achieve guardianship of their murdered daughter's child. It is unconscionable that they are not considered the automatic care providers and that a battle must ensure!
This type of failure to recognize the worthwhile benefits of Family-Centred Care is most troublesome and appears to be an ongoing shift from the premise of natural family commitment.
Take the case of families whose child has a developmental or medical difference. Child welfare practices on an archaic stance by offering assistance for the children, but with a hefty cost: Help hinges upon relinquishing custody on either a temporary or permanent basis in order to secure it! Loving families are torn apart through this unconstitutional and unethical delivery of services. Natural families must be entitled to equal assistance as to that received in foster care! It is not only humane, but economically more feasible to support the biological family.
December 3rd 2009 marks the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities table in the House of Commons.
December 3rd is also a date of significance in the Province of Alberta, Canada. The life and circumstances surrounding Samantha Lauren Martin, a child with a rare chromosome disorder, *Tetrasomy 18p, led her mother, Velvet Martin, to challenge archaic laws inhibiting the rights of persons with disability & their families. Persistence resulted in the establishment of:
"Samantha's Law"
Amendment to the Alberta FSCD (Family Support for Children with Disabilities) Act, became effective December 2006:
http://www.child.alberta.ca/home/527.cfm
Section 2-3, Manual Amendments: Policy and Procedures in Family Centred Supports and Services:
"The Family Support for Children with Disabilities Program to have separate legislation from that of child protection services."
In Celebration of the Importance of Life & Loving Memory of:
Samantha Lauren Martin, June 4, 1993 - December 3, 2006.
(\ -- /) ( \()/ ) ( / \ ) TAKE THIS LITTLE ANGEL ^j^ (/\/\) AND KEEP HER CLOSE TO YOU / \ SHE IS SENT AS A GUARDIAN ( ___ ) TO PROTECT ALL THAT IS TRUE
Velvet Martin, Administrator for Tetrasomy 18p Canada
Grandparents vie with foster parents to adopt girl
ReplyDeleteBy Amy Crawford
Dear Amy Crawford,
The article is a most important one for you to explore and I feel compelled to expand on these issues with experience that stems from my own advocacy efforts.
Grandparents have much to offer, but far most, a loving commitment that is already present within the bond of kin. I cannot fathom the pain that these folks must be facing in a struggle to achieve guardianship of their murdered daughter's child. It is unconscionable that they are not considered the automatic care providers and that a battle must ensure!
This type of failure to recognize the worthwhile benefits of Family-Centred Care is most troublesome and appears to be an ongoing shift from the premise of natural family commitment.
Take the case of families whose child has a developmental or medical difference. Child welfare practices on an archaic stance by offering assistance for the children, but with a hefty cost: Help hinges upon relinquishing custody on either a temporary or permanent basis in order to secure it! Loving families are torn apart through this unconstitutional and unethical delivery of services. Natural families must be entitled to equal assistance as to that received in foster care! It is not only humane, but economically more feasible to support the biological family.
December 3rd 2009 marks the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities table in the House of Commons.
December 3rd is also a date of significance in the Province of Alberta, Canada. The life and circumstances surrounding Samantha Lauren Martin, a child with a rare chromosome disorder, *Tetrasomy 18p, led her mother, Velvet Martin, to challenge archaic laws inhibiting the rights of persons with disability & their families. Persistence resulted in the establishment of:
"Samantha's Law"
Amendment to the Alberta FSCD (Family Support for Children with Disabilities) Act, became effective December 2006:
http://www.child.alberta.ca/home/527.cfm
Section 2-3, Manual Amendments: Policy and Procedures in Family Centred Supports and Services:
"The Family Support for Children with Disabilities Program to have separate legislation from that of child protection services."
In Celebration of the Importance of Life & Loving Memory of:
Samantha Lauren Martin, June 4, 1993 - December 3, 2006.
Sincerely,
Velvet Martin
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(\ -- /)
( \()/ )
( / \ ) TAKE THIS LITTLE ANGEL ^j^
(/\/\) AND KEEP HER CLOSE TO YOU
/ \ SHE IS SENT AS A GUARDIAN
( ___ ) TO PROTECT ALL THAT IS TRUE
Velvet Martin,
Administrator for Tetrasomy 18p Canada
"Samantha's Syndrome"
http://www.tetrasomy18p.ca/