Inside Philly’s hidden foster care system, where parents ‘voluntarily’ give up their children<\/p>\n
Philadelphia’s Dept of Human Services often removes children from their families under so-called “voluntary safety plans.” Prof. Sarah Katz warns they are anything but voluntary. “Legally, these voluntary safety plans are a much greater concern, because they can go on indefinitely, the parents are often not made aware of their rights, and the government takes as much control of the child as they would if they had them in their custody. It’s essentially a total denial of parental rights.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Inside Philly’s hidden foster care system, where parents ‘voluntarily’ give up their children Philadelphia’s Dept of Human Services often removes children from their families under so-called “voluntary safety plans.” Prof. Sarah Katz warns they are anything but voluntary. “Legally, these voluntary safety plans are a much greater concern, because they can go on indefinitely, the parents are often not made aware of their rights, and the government takes as much control of the child as they would if they had them in their custody. It’s essentially a total denial of parental rights.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"audience":[],"coauthors":[417,244],"class_list":["post-7635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-media"],"yoast_head":"\r\n