That sounds good, but "fitness" can have many levels and interpretations.
My home was fit...even the relative assessment worker declared it as "safe
and clean" and yet, even though I had raised my grandson from birth and was
considered a "de facto parent", my grandson was left in foster care and then
he "developed emotional disorders" and could not come home. He was NEVER
ABUSED NOR NEGLECTED. He was taken from me because he was "highly adoptable
and I had no "court papers" (only notarized papers) giving me guardianship
of my grandson, signed by my daughter. When my daughter (who did not live
with me and my grandson) was arrested because of drugs, CPS came to my home
to take my grandson. I would not leave the interpretation of fitness up to
CPS.

-------Original Message-------

From: Darrick Scott-Farnsworth
Date: 10/23/2007 12:12:02 PM
To: child_neglect_abuse@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [child_neglect_abuse] CPS Reform Legislation

What do you think of the need to force DHS to consider family first
with a finding of fitness? Do you think that this will change the
number of foster placements?





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