➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Child Maltreatment History Should Be a Bar to Being a Foster Parent (Opinion)
Youth Today – June 13, 2016
It’s just common sense: An adult’s past criminal history or history of child maltreatment is not to be balanced against the safety of a child. This is not to say a person with any criminal record should be barred as a foster parent, but certainly an applicant with a substantiated history of child maltreatment, no matter how far in the distant past, should be permanently barred.
http://youthtoday.org/2016/06/child-maltreatment-history-should-be-a-bar-to-being-a-foster-parent/