Bill Allowing Child Visitation for Parents Whose Rights Are Terminated Set to Become Law

Family court judges in New York currently can’t allow any kind of contact between a parent and their child after parental rights have been terminated—but that’s likely to change after the state Legislature approved a bill addressing the issue last week.

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Foster mom says library policy prohibiting visits between foster kids and birth parents discriminatory

For many years, Abbey Clegg would take the children she fostered to the Manchester Public Library to meet with their birth mothers.

It is a quiet and safe place and one where birth mother and child could bond over the love of reading.

All that changed, however, last December when the Division of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) sent foster parents an email informing them that they could no longer have supervised visits at the library.

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Judge orders phone visits for father, son in custody battle

A judge ordered parents embroiled in an interstate custody battle to begin the process of setting up telephone visits between the father in Massachusetts and the child, who lives with his mother in Normal, after consultation with the boy's counselor.

In his first hearing after being appointed to the case, Judge Charles Feeney told lawyers for Michael Cadena and Amber Buck on Wednesday that he expects progress in the case that started four years ago when Cadena filed for custody of Mikey, now 4.

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Supervised visitation company calls last week's Amber Alert 'isolated incident'

An executive with the firm whose social worker got distracted enough to allow a mother to snatch her 2-year-old during a supervised visit called last week’s incident an “isolated” one.

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Midlands children in foster care can go months without seeing their siblings or birth families

A REPORT INTO foster care in the Midlands region has found significant failures to reach appropriate standards.

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The Ubering of Foster Care has Begun

Earlier this month, I wrote a story about how Los Angeles County was considering using ridesharing services like Uber to improve “family visitation.”

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Child Visitation Hits the Internet

Child Visitation Hits the Internet

Florida is one of several states that have created laws allowing parents to engage in virtual visitation with their children. This type of visitation enables non-custodial parents to utilize technology to maintain and preserve their parent/child relationships. Types of virtual visitation include video conferencing, e-mail, video chatting, instant messaging and most any other electronic means of communication.

DCF workers deal with ‘shameful’ office conditions

DCF workers deal with ‘shameful’ office conditions

Workers at the state’s beleaguered child welfare agency are contending with fleas, mice, and decrepit working conditions and an overload of cases that have left some workers coping with traumatic levels of stress and almost all with plummeting morale, according an official survey of more than 1,500 employees.

One worker described seeing cockroaches in the Leominster office, scuttling across the same floor that babies crawl on during supervised visits with their parents. The office walls are “punched through, and the social workers sit in closets,” the worker wrote. “Shameful.”

Pasco couple reunited with children in foster care via Skype

Pasco couple reunited with children in foster care via Skype

Two children in foster care got to see their biological parents for the first time in more than eight years during a Skype visit last week.

CYFD alters visitation policy

CYFD alters visitation policy

The state's Children Youth and Families Department has changed its supervised visit policy.

Supervised visit changes; CYFD workers disciplined

Father with no rights: Mother stops him seeing daughter for 12 YEARS - despite 82 court orders demanding she back down

Father with no rights: Mother stops him seeing daughter for 12 YEARS - despite 82 court orders demanding she back down

A father yesterday spoke of his anguish over an extraordinary £100,000 12-year court battle for the right to see his daughter.

WA foster children 'suffer' from lack of family contact

WA foster children 'suffer' from lack of family contact

Foster carers say children are "distressed" and suffering after having visits to their biological parents cut by up to 80 per cent.

Visitation supervisor charged in Waterville fleeing mom case

Visitation supervisor charged in Waterville fleeing mom case

A court-appointed child visitation supervisor has been summoned and charged with two counts of endangering the life of a child in the case of a Fairfield woman who fled to South Carolina with her two children earlier this month.

For Some Kids, Summer Camp Includes Seeing Dad In Prison

For Some Kids, Summer Camp Includes Seeing Dad In Prison

The idea of taking a child to prison for a week may bring to mind visions of "Scared Straight" programs. But the Father to Child Summer Camp Behind Bars does just that — and the goal is to let kids bond with their fathers, who might be incarcerated far from their families.

China law 'forcing' children to visit parents ridiculed

China law 'forcing' children to visit parents ridiculed

A Chinese law requiring family members to visit their elderly relatives went into effect Monday to howls of online ridicule, as the country's huge population ages rapidly.

Broward judge blasts child welfare officials in boy's suspicious death

Broward judge blasts child welfare officials in boy's suspicious death

Blasting child welfare officials Friday, a Broward County Circuit judge said she would have intervened had she known a mother with a mental health history was being allowed her first unsupervised visit with her 4-year-old son.

Critics, CPS differ over whether agency's keeping up on parent-child visits

Critics, CPS differ over whether agency's keeping up on parent-child visits

Child Protective Services is falling down on providing supervised parental visits and other critical services, private agencies hired by the state to provide those services say.

Social workers no longer obliged to promote contact with birth parents

Social workers no longer obliged to promote contact with birth parents 


The government hopes new legislation will prevent birth parents from having unregulated contact with adopted and looked-after children

CPS visitation trouble---Some parents may get to see kids soon

CPS visitation trouble---Some parents may get to see kids soon

Private agencies that supervise court-ordered visits are slowly getting referrals they need to resume visits

New Chinese law requires adult kids to visit parents

New Chinese law requires adult kids to visit parents

Visit your parents. That's an order.

So says China, whose national legislature on Friday amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children visit their aging parents "often" — or risk being sued by them.