New Jersey

Still, I see them going from a secure situation to a more uncertain future and a situation in which their welfare largely depends on a job their mother does not yet have.

I know that part of your job is to make a plausible case for the competence of the mother. It sounds to me that there is a strong bias in the court system to keep the children with the birth mother rather than a foster parent. You said that "the court decided there was no evidence of abuse or harm by our client." Is that the primary standard used to decide these cases? That criterion strikes me as inferior to doing what is best for the children.

I hope that, in fact, this turns out to be best for the children.