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- Title
Federal Family Drug Treatment Courts: Providing Positive Possibilities.
- Authors
Hickey, Amanda
- Abstract
Due to the lack of family drug treatment courts, families are often torn apart when a parent has a substance abuse problem. Children of substance abusers are often abused and neglected. However, children in these tough living situations fear seeking help because they do not want to be the reason that their family is torn apart and they are placed in the foster care system. This Note proposes a federal statute that requires all states to implement family drug treatment courts. These courts allow families to stay intact while providing the parent with the help that he or she needs. Key Points for the Family Court Community:About 8.7 million children live in homes with parents that have substance abuse problems. Over 425,000 children are in foster care in the United States. A majority are there as a result of their parents' substance abuse.Living in a home with a substance abusing parent and living in foster care are both extremely detrimental to children.Family drug treatment courts have positively changed both substance abusing parents' lives and their children's lives.Less than half of the states in America have family drug treatment courts.The federal government has not taken any initiatives to help children that are growing up in homes with parents abusing drugs and alcohol.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHILDREN of drug abusers; PARENTS; TREATMENT of drug addiction; CHILD abuse
- Publication
Family Court Review, 2020, Vol 58, Issue 3, p832
- ISSN
1531-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/fcre.12514