[madfostermomma]

I dont think's its a sweeping generalization at all. As a rule- birth parents are given too many chances. If you screw up - fine - then fix it. Everyone makes mistakes but I think the point is that if you are a birth parent you are given more tolerance for your mistakes - which is fine except that it's the children who suffer those mistakes not the birth parents. Why is it fair to a child to wait to have permanency because their birth parents " just can't get it together" - It's not the child's fault - yet they are the ones that suffer.

I'm sorry but a man that shoots another in cold blood with witnesses and kills that man - whether he meant to inflict " that much harm " will be charged with murder yet a birth mother who abuses drugs while pregnant and has a child die from that at 7 months old is not held accountable. She gets more "chances" to try and be a mother to her other children and we pay for those chances. So I'm sorry but I have to respectfully disagree that it is a generalization. In my humble opinion and in a great deal of those I talk to - it is the truth.