wfgodot
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I have some knowledege of how TX CPS handles cases like this (though much less severe than this).
Newly married couple; the father tested positive for marijuana (court-ordered testing; he'd had one prior conviction, for burglary).
TX CPS....
* first placed the newborn with responsible relatives
* developed a care plan with those and other relatives, and the parents
* visited the home weekly for interviews with both parents
* of course visited the relatives's home at least weekly to observe progress, integrate parents into care plan
* after developing a further care plan, restored the baby to its parents
* scheduled and conducted six more months of follow-up weekly visits with the parents, including extra, random checks
And this was for a failed marijuana test, no evidence of harder drugs, and a clean record for the father since the initial arrest some years prior. The mother had no marks against her at all.
Why Oklahoma cannot manage this is simply impossible to say. This case was much more severe than the TX one above, and included OD-ing drug-users and multiple accounts of meth usage in the home. Why was the child still in the home - or allowed to go home from the hospital to a place like that, in the first place?
Newly married couple; the father tested positive for marijuana (court-ordered testing; he'd had one prior conviction, for burglary).
TX CPS....
* first placed the newborn with responsible relatives
* developed a care plan with those and other relatives, and the parents
* visited the home weekly for interviews with both parents
* of course visited the relatives's home at least weekly to observe progress, integrate parents into care plan
* after developing a further care plan, restored the baby to its parents
* scheduled and conducted six more months of follow-up weekly visits with the parents, including extra, random checks
And this was for a failed marijuana test, no evidence of harder drugs, and a clean record for the father since the initial arrest some years prior. The mother had no marks against her at all.
Why Oklahoma cannot manage this is simply impossible to say. This case was much more severe than the TX one above, and included OD-ing drug-users and multiple accounts of meth usage in the home. Why was the child still in the home - or allowed to go home from the hospital to a place like that, in the first place?
