Best Interests of The Child?

Children have the right to an adequate standard of living, health care, education, and services. They have the right to be raised in a home led by an empathetic and emotionally supportive parent. They have the right to enjoy a healthy relationship with both their parents and extended family members. They have the right to a balanced diet, a warm bed to sleep in, and protection from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and discrimination.

Placement in a home that affords the child the greatest percentage of these factors is in the child’s best interests.

It is easy for parents caught up in a conflict to focus their case on one or two of these factors. However, children benefit when parents are able to step back and consider the whole picture.

 
Best Interests of The Child