Custody Of A Child Case Study
“Custody of a Child”
Principle of Ethics
Professor John Becker
Custody of a Child In the United States there are a high number of children that are placed in foster care due the parents being inadequate to care for their own children as was the case for the parents of a 9 year old little girl who was taken from her parents when she was a baby. She was put in the care of foster parents who in time became the real parents of this child. After many years of rehabilitation however, the biological parents of this 9 year old girl became clean and began the process of regaining custody of the child and won their case. As a result the 9 year old girl gets returned to her biological parents against her will. Let’s look …show more content…
This method follows the golden rule, which is: Do unto others what you would like them to do to you. If this 9 year old girl gets returned to her biological parents, who deserve the right to be with her because they gave birth to her, both mother and father are going to strive to stay clean and sober so they can be good parents and set a good example for their daughter. Having this child with them might be the only reason they decided to become sober in the first place. Therefore, there are less drug addicts in the world. What if because the child is still young, she might later on in life resent her foster parents for not giving her the right to be a part of her biological parent’s lives, which is common in cases like these. If you were the biological parents, wouldn’t you want a second chance or don’t you think you deserve a second chance, after all no one is …show more content…
In this method the decision made by court is not the proper one. Let us stop and think about what this 9 year old girl thinks. She wants to stay with her foster parents because after all she was raised with them and has come to love and appreciate everything that they have done for her over the past 9 years. It is not fair to her that after she had to be put in foster care because her biological parents were drug addicts and could not care for her, now she is taken away from the parents she now believes are her real parents. What if after a year or two her biological parents fall back into drugs and she, again, has to be put in the foster care? Which would be more painful? And if this were to happen how will this girl benefit? Where would she end up if this became a cycle for the biological parents and she has to be put back into foster care? What example would they be giving their daughter? What if after several years, she herself falls into the same pattern as them, and then all we would have accomplished is that this 9 year old girl, who could have stayed with her foster parents, is now also a drug addict just like her biological parents. Lastly and most importantly, what would be the greater good and greater number, to have 2 drug addict parents or to have a family of drug addicts that could have been avoided if the 9 year old girl would have stayed in a place where she felt safe, a place where she
Principle of Ethics
Professor John Becker
Custody of a Child In the United States there are a high number of children that are placed in foster care due the parents being inadequate to care for their own children as was the case for the parents of a 9 year old little girl who was taken from her parents when she was a baby. She was put in the care of foster parents who in time became the real parents of this child. After many years of rehabilitation however, the biological parents of this 9 year old girl became clean and began the process of regaining custody of the child and won their case. As a result the 9 year old girl gets returned to her biological parents against her will. Let’s look …show more content…
This method follows the golden rule, which is: Do unto others what you would like them to do to you. If this 9 year old girl gets returned to her biological parents, who deserve the right to be with her because they gave birth to her, both mother and father are going to strive to stay clean and sober so they can be good parents and set a good example for their daughter. Having this child with them might be the only reason they decided to become sober in the first place. Therefore, there are less drug addicts in the world. What if because the child is still young, she might later on in life resent her foster parents for not giving her the right to be a part of her biological parent’s lives, which is common in cases like these. If you were the biological parents, wouldn’t you want a second chance or don’t you think you deserve a second chance, after all no one is …show more content…
In this method the decision made by court is not the proper one. Let us stop and think about what this 9 year old girl thinks. She wants to stay with her foster parents because after all she was raised with them and has come to love and appreciate everything that they have done for her over the past 9 years. It is not fair to her that after she had to be put in foster care because her biological parents were drug addicts and could not care for her, now she is taken away from the parents she now believes are her real parents. What if after a year or two her biological parents fall back into drugs and she, again, has to be put in the foster care? Which would be more painful? And if this were to happen how will this girl benefit? Where would she end up if this became a cycle for the biological parents and she has to be put back into foster care? What example would they be giving their daughter? What if after several years, she herself falls into the same pattern as them, and then all we would have accomplished is that this 9 year old girl, who could have stayed with her foster parents, is now also a drug addict just like her biological parents. Lastly and most importantly, what would be the greater good and greater number, to have 2 drug addict parents or to have a family of drug addicts that could have been avoided if the 9 year old girl would have stayed in a place where she felt safe, a place where she