New Jersey’s high court has declared that even a worthy mother can lose her parental rights if she fails to protect her children from an abusive father.
“The issue before the trial court was not whether [the mother] was an inherently unfit parent incapable of raising a child,” Justice Barry Albin wrote for the court in DYFS v. F.M., A-108-10. “Rather, it was whether [she] was capable of protecting her children from their unstable and potentially violent father, who refused to seek appropriate treatment to curb his drug abuse and address his mental illness.”
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