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part because of active discouragement from child caseworkers and in 
118. Caroline Bailey, How to Support Reunification, Even If You Don’t Want To, 
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you-dont-want-to. 
119. Trudy Petkovich, Selling Co-Parenting, F
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2 (2010) https://www.fostercarereview.org/wp-content/themes/Theme/theme45009/files/Co-
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120. See Johnson, supra note 113 and accompanying text. 
121. John Kelly et al., The Foster Care Housing Crisis, C
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https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/The-Foster-Care-Housing-
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122. See 
What 
is 
Foster 
Care?, 
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HE 
A
NNIE 
E.
C
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https://www.aecf.org/blog/what-is-foster-care/ (last updated June 6, 2019) (noting that 
“[w]hen child welfare systems send children far from home or repeatedly move a child from 
one school to another, that can cause problems, too. It’s hard to maintain or rebuild family 
and other relationships over long distances; parents may not be able to afford visits to far away 
treatment centers. And school stability is an important building block for getting a good edu-
cation. While federal legislation requires agencies to try to keep children in their home 
schools, that doesn’t always happen.”). 
123. See Smith v. Org. of Foster Families, 431 U.S. 816, 860 (1977) (quoting in part Ben-
nett v. Jeffreys, 40 N.Y.2d 543 (1976)). 
124. Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745, 753 (1982). 
125. See 45 U.S.C. § 671(a)(15)(F). 
126. See Klain et al., supra note 66, at 109. 

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