“There has to be something egregious and extreme,” he says.Ĭindy H. Gary Kleeblatt, J.D., MA, Connecticut’s DCF communications director, emphasizes that children of parents with mental illness are not typically removed as a result of that illness.
“If parents are participating and benefiting from services, they will be reunited with the child.” At nine months, you would start looking at future plans,” she explains. “Under federal and Connecticut law, you have up to a year to complete reunification or find some alternative. If a judge orders a child removed from the home, he issues specific steps regarding what the agency has to provide in the way of services and what the family is expected to do, adds Claire. “Neglect would be a messy house and that is probably not going to lend itself to predictive neglect.” She notes that in Connecticut, abuse is a category of neglect.
For instance, if three kids previously had been abused, we have reason to believe it will happen again,” she says.
For families, a mental health diagnosis can have devastating consequences when it leads to termination of parental rights under the “predictive neglect” doctrine.Ī legal term, predictive neglect refers to the removal of a child from the home when there is reasonable certainty the child is in danger, says Barbara Claire, agency legal director for Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families (DCF). In spite of awareness and education campaigns, mental illness still carries a stigma that can affect individuals in the community, workplace and home.
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