Are foster teen mothers not being given the chance to be a mother to their own children? With teen pregnancy on the rise in the foster care system this is something that needs to be addressed. In Kentucky they are dealing with a terrible mess where foster teen mothers have lost the rights to the children possibly for being inexperienced and in foster care.

Teen mothers are being separated from their infants while in foster care with the mothers in one foster home and infants placed in a different foster home. While some claim that the rights of the foster teen mothers are not being terminated solely because of age and immaturity that the reasoning is because the mothers refuse to act as responsible parents.

The termination of parental rights for more than 10,000 foster teens in Kentucky may be impacted by a decision to reverse termination of parental rights for a foster teen that lost her son at the age of 14.

Personally, I have several issues with all of this. Foremost is what basis do these foster teen mothers have to even begin to know about what is needed to be responsible parents. Honestly, most foster children do not end up in foster care because they have quality parents or even somewhat of a parental figure. We turn around and expect the foster teen mother to know how to be an acceptable parent.

We have to take the time to teach these young mothers how to be mothers before we decide they do not deserve a chance to parent their babies. It is sad how the system gives the adult biological parents of foster children numerous times to become parents and in some cases in years of the foster children’s lives but foster teen mothers are not even given a beginning of a start.

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