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    Removing a child from long-term caregivers is harmful to ... — Carmelics
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    Removing a child from long-term caregivers is harmful to the child

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    • Where a child has been looked after by a person or people for some time, being taken away from them is very damaging to the child
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    • 1.Harm from removal must be weighed against ongoing harm from abusive or neglectful caregiving environments.
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    • 2.Developmental psychology shows that children demonstrate significant resilience and recovery capacity when placed in stable, nurturing alternative care.
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    • 3.A claim that removal is harmful does not entail that remaining is less harmful, making the comparative judgment morally decisive.
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    • 1.Goldstein, Freud, and Solnit's 'psychological parent' doctrine has been critiqued for overweighting attachment bonds while underweighting children's rights to safety and flourishing.
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    • 2.Caregiver duration alone is an insufficient basis for harm assessments without accounting for the quality and character of the caregiving relationship.
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    Three main considerations are presented in favor of labor-based accounts. One focuses on the interests of the child. Where a child has been looked after by a person or people for some time, it is thought to be very damaging for her to be taken away from them (Archard 2004). In the case of gestation, since the gestational mother is guaranteed to be identifiable at birth, it may be thought in the best interests of the child that she be regarded as the mother (Annas 1984). Moreover, the child and g
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