TIME AS A TPR VARIABLE
The court’s decision to terminate a parent’s rights is ultimately (but
seldom explicitly) the result of a child-centered cost-benefit accounting;
a calculus filled with immeasurable, unknowable
could-be
and
what-if
variables. Weighed out on the scales of justice are the real or inferred
physical, social, emotional, moral, cognitive, academic, and occupa-
tional benefits of family continuity versus the real or inferred upheaval
and trauma associated with the indeterminacy of foster or kinship care
versus the fearful possibility of being returned to the care of an unfit
parent,
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all of this as a function of time.
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