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Although hired as a consultant by Washington County in this case, Baird had a long-standing independent agenda: helping foster parents across Colorado succeed in intervening and permanently claiming the children they care for. Often working hand in hand with Tim Eirich, she has been called as an expert in, by her count, hundreds of child welfare cases, and she sometimes evaluates visits between birth families and children without having met them. Baird would not say how many foster parent intervenor cases she has participated in, but she can recall only a single instance in which she concluded that the intervenors should not keep the child. Thinking that particular couple would be weak adoptive parents, she told me, she simply filed no report.
what the fuck
I fully believe that woman is a monster. She doesn’t care about any of those kids. She’s being paid to get the foster parents a baby, so that’s what she’s determined to do. Eirich is just as bad. They’re getting uncomfortably close to being traffickers.
Of course there are parents who should never get custody back, but I’ve seen plenty of cases where they work extremely hard, make big changes, and are very successfully reunited, and everyone deserves the chance to try before we just decide they can never have their kids back.
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Lemme guess
It’s all states with large indigenous populations still around.
I can sympathize with foster parents that have a hard time letting go, dear friend of mine who’s been desperately trying to have kids of her own had to give a little baby that became her world back to the bio mom and it absolutely crushed her, but formulating an entire legal strategy around it just reeks of trying to get around court preference to return indigenous kids to their nation of origin if possible.
