Thus, a parent could, according to Archard, fulfill her parental obligations that result from conceiving and bearing a child, by finding adoptive parents who will assume parental responsibilities for the child.
Before her parental rights were terminated, Ana said, she completed a regimen of parenting courses and therapy sessions in hopes of being reunited with her family.
She insisted that she never relinquished her parental rights.
"Her parental home was a complete wreckage," Roth says.
She, too, had agreed to surrender her parental rights.
From then on, she hunkers down and grudgingly accepts her parental responsibilities.
removed both children from her care, and the state eventually terminated her parental rights.
To prevent her from taking the children, K. filed a petition to establish her parental relationship.
The child can be adopted only after the mother relinquishes her parental rights.
Their mother lost her parental rights, and Ms. Bufong adopted the children in 2008.
Daishawn, Shawanna and Faith's mother has, in the cold parlance of the child-welfare bureaucracy, had her "parental rights" severed.
