41. In New York, child welfare officials can terminate parental rights if a mother fails to maintain regular contact with her children by telephone and in visits. 42. In formal foster care, the advocate added, she would face termination of her parental rights before she was halfway through a three-year term. 43. In several states, parental rights legislation, which would be easier to enact than an amendment, has been introduced. 44. In other places, they are seen as an unneeded government intrusion and an abridgement of parental rights. 45. Included in the group espousing the parental rights of fathers is Chicago-based attorney Jeffery Leving. 46. It does not extend any rights to homosexuals wanting to adopt children or expand any parental rights. 47. It is the only known instance in which an embryo produced by a married couple developed into a child after a divorce without a written agreement on parental rights. 48. It takes a year to terminate parental rights. 49. It has become a major battle over parental rights. 50. It transformed police work, hospitals, parental rights, courts. |
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