➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
CT: Desperate Choices: Connecticut parents giving up custody for care (Includes video)
Register Citizen – October 08, 2016
Lisa Vincent, a Torrington lawyer, is among two dozen parents and children’s advocates across the state who have formed a grass-roots network that is challenging DCF’s handling of cases involving children with complex trauma-related disorders, many of them a¬dopted. They cite case after case of parents being forced into a situation they call “trading custody for care” – coerced into letting DCF deem their children “uncared for” or neglected and to take over custody, in order to get them into intensive mental health treatment programs.
http://www.registercitizen.com/lifestyle/20161008/desperate-choices-connecticut-parents-giving-up-custody-for-care