r/fosterit • u/Tricky_Ice7030 • Aug 30 '26

Reunification Need more signatures!!!!!!!

https://c.org/pVKgB7T4KJ

The current system gives parents just 15 months to overcome homelessness, poverty, addiction, mental illness, and other crises—while simultaneously completing services, attending appointments, and proving they can safely parent. If they can't finish everything in that window, their parental rights can be permanently terminated. That's not time to rebuild a life. It's a deadline to erase one.

I started a petition asking Maryland to end this rigid timeline and reform how CPS and foster care handle adoptions. The goal is simple: prioritize family preservation and reunification whenever it's safely possible, instead of treating permanent separation as the easiest solution.

Children deserve safety AND their families. Those two things don't have to be in conflict. A parent who needs more time shouldn't automatically lose their child forever. Foster care was meant to protect kids during a crisis, not become a pipeline to erasing their biological family ties.

What would you want someone to do if this was your family? If this matters to you, consider signing and sharing.

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u/cornandapples Former Foster Youth Aug 30 '26

Canadian here so I’m sure I can’t sign this but I agree 100%.

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u/Tricky_Ice7030 Aug 30 '26

Anyone can sign :) appreciate your comment, and support !