- A. The Legislature recognizes that parents have the right and duty to provide for the care, guidance, supervision and rearing of their children.
- B. The Legislature also recognizes that when a child is in need of foster care, the foster parent should have the ability and authority to integrate the foster child into the family setting and to care for the foster child as the foster parent would the foster parent's own child. As such, the foster parent shall be granted parental substitute authority.
Added by Laws 1998, HB 2826, c. 414, § 4, emerg. eff. June 11, 1998.