I don’t agree. There’s too much room for abuse in saying that a native child placed with white parents for an extended period of time should stay there. What would stop a state from placing a native child in foster care while they “look” for relatives and drag their feet until it’s too late? Or what would stop a white family from appealing in family court to try and keep a native child who is going to be placed with relatives/a tribal member until it’s “too late” (this happened in CA btw, a white family sued to try and keep a native child placed temporarily in their care until family could be found, and they managed to drag the process out for years so they could claim they were the only family the now toddler ever knew).
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I don’t agree. There’s too much room for abuse in saying that a native child placed with white parents for an extended period of time should stay there. What would stop a state from placing a native child in foster care while they “look” for relatives and drag their feet until it’s too late? Or what would stop a white family from appealing in family court to try and keep a native child who is going to be placed with relatives/a tribal member until it’s “too late” (this happened in CA btw, a white family sued to try and keep a native child placed temporarily in their care until family could be found, and they managed to drag the process out for years so they could claim they were the only family the now toddler ever knew).