Bailey-Null is not alone: Arizona is one of five states – the others are Alaska, California, Kentucky, and North Dakota – as well as Puerto Rico that list mental illness or a disability as grounds for not providing Reasonable Efforts to Reunify a family. Such laws do not take into account the fact that staying with their families may be better for the children. According to MIT assistant professor Joseph Doyle Jr., “My research suggests that children on the margin of foster care placement have better employment, delinquency, and teen motherhood outcomes when they remain at home.”1 tucollaborative.org/pdfs/Toolkits_Monographs_Guidebooks/parenting/Factsheet_1_Child_Custody_Laws.pdf Statue for KY: lrc.ky.gov/statutes/statute.aspx?id=40864
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