parental unfitness

[sandysmom]

What is the name of your state?GA. I know judges have wide descretion on what they consider parental unfitness. Besides providing food, shelter and clothing what else could be considered unfitness. The CP not encouraging a relationship with NCP? In teenagers, CP not encouraging visitation with NCP?

 

[LdiJ]

What is the name of your state?GA. I know judges have wide descretion on what they consider parental unfitness. Besides providing food, shelter and clothing what else could be considered unfitness. The CP not encouraging a relationship with NCP? In teenagers, CP not encouraging visitation with NCP?

Honestly...to prove parental unfitness from a legal standpoint, you really have to prove the parent as dangerous to the child. A parent who is convicted of child molestation would be unfit. A parent who has documented evidence (outside evidence) of drug addiction would be unfit....same with serious alcoholism (but not necessarily unfit enough to deny all visitation). A parent who physically abused the child would be unfit. A parent who starved the child and/or provided SERIOUSLY unhealthy, unsanitary living conditions may be found unfit.

Basically, the standards of proving a parent unfit are the same standards that CPS would use to remove a child from the parent's home and put them in foster care.

I doubt that a CP not encouraging a relationship with an NCP would be considered unfitness....even actively discouraging a relationship might not be considered unfitness. It might be considered a reasons for a custody change...but not necessarily a reason to declare the parent unfit. When the kids are teens its even stickier.