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Currently, my fifteen year old daughter is in a foster home, because her behavior is so intolerable, despite concentrated efforts (therapy, Tough Love, parenting classes, mentor, etc.) to help her, that it was threatening my household (single parent with younger sibling) and younger sibling feels unsafe around older child. We are currently involved in a 6-month reunification process, which is not going well. She is now accustomed to the minimal (bare minimum required) supervision afforded by the single foster parent and will not consider any compromise with respect to her behavior upon her return home. In fact, my daughter wishes to remain in long term foster care.
I am currently exploring voluntarily severing my parental rights. My question is...when parental rights are severed, is your financial responsibility, i.e. foster care costs, child support, etc.) also terminated. I hate to base my decision on the response; however, our (my younger child and I) quality of life will be diminished, so a self-serving teenager gets her way. Please help.
Thank you.
Currently, my fifteen year old daughter is in a foster home, because her behavior is so intolerable, despite concentrated efforts (therapy, Tough Love, parenting classes, mentor, etc.) to help her, that it was threatening my household (single parent with younger sibling) and younger sibling feels unsafe around older child. We are currently involved in a 6-month reunification process, which is not going well. She is now accustomed to the minimal (bare minimum required) supervision afforded by the single foster parent and will not consider any compromise with respect to her behavior upon her return home. In fact, my daughter wishes to remain in long term foster care.
I am currently exploring voluntarily severing my parental rights. My question is...when parental rights are severed, is your financial responsibility, i.e. foster care costs, child support, etc.) also terminated. I hate to base my decision on the response; however, our (my younger child and I) quality of life will be diminished, so a self-serving teenager gets her way. Please help.
Thank you.