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A baby is missing from Jeremy's home and he is not fully cooperating with the police, he has told conflicting stories to police, he waited over 34 minutes to call 911 after his baby was noticed to be missing, and he does not appear to be disturbed by the fact that during Deborah's drunkednes, his child "disappeared". RR may not be the ideal mother, but unless she has a conviction as an ax murderer, her home might be safer than Jeremy's. Also realize that children are 4x as likely to die in foster care than with a biological parent. Being with a biological parent is usually healthier than foster care and RR is the biological parent.
Children are more likely to die in foster care.
http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fosterlt_march07_aer.pdf
Children placed in foster care have more compromised developmental outcomes than children who do not experience placement in foster care.
American Academy of Pediatrics. Health care of young children in foster care. Pediatrics (2000) 109:536–39.
Children are more likely to develop Reactive Attachment Disorder in foster care.
http://epublications.marquette.edu/...ve attachment disorder foster care site:.edu"
A child having no dominating parental figure during the early years of development may lead to a child never being able to form an emotional bond to another person.
American Academy of Pediatrics.* “Developmental Issues For Young Children In Foster Care.” EBSCOhost Full Display.* Pediatrics.* 106 (2000): 1146, 6p. 

Katz, Linda L, M.S.W. “An Overview of Current Clinical Issues in Separation and Placement.” Child and Adolescent Social Work* 4* (1987):* 209-225
A 1986 survey conducted by the National Foster Care Education Project found that foster children were 10 times more likely to be abused than children among the general population. A follow-up study in 1990 by the same group produced similar results. A 2001 study found that foster care children were more likely to have a mental health or substance abuse.
http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/FactOverview/foster.html
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2000;154:1114-1117
Despite the large number of children at high risk of poor life outcomes served by child protective services, it is unclear whether removing children from home and placing them in foster care is beneficial for children, especially for children at the margin of placement
National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 1998. Violence in Families. Washington: National Academy Press.
Children who were placed in foster care are far more likely than other children to commit crimes, dropout of school, enter the homeless population, join welfare, and experience substance abuse problems.
Courtney, M.E. and I. Piliavin. Foster youths transitions to adulthood: Outcomes 12 to 18 months after leaving out-of-home care. Madison, WI: School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1998.
According to data compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services in 1999, the rate of child maltreatment was more than 75 percent higher -- and the rate of fatal maltreatment almost 350 percent higher -- for children in foster care than in the general population.
Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Maltreatment 1999, Reports from the states to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (1999), Tables 3.2, 4.1.
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