All child welfare decisions should be made in the best interests of the child, not based on the personal beliefs of child services agencies or workers. (everychilddeservesa.family)
This can have psychological consequences, and child services agencies usually prefer to unite and strengthen families, rather than tear them apart. (wisegeek.com)
Discriminatory adoption and foster care laws allow child services agencies to keep a child in foster care or a government group home rather than allowing her to be adopted by qualified, loving parents, simply because they don't pass an agency's religious test. (everychilddeservesa.family)