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 * Parenting training and Assistance
 * This is most likely when you would go to counseling or a shrink who specialize in Parenting or family issues, and they would give you tips and help you get out of the habit of abusing your children.
 * Foster care/ sent to live with a relative
 * supervised care for delinquent or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute home.
 * Adoption /Terminating parental rights
 * Adoption is a legal process that creates a new, permanent parent-child relationship where one didn't exist before. The adoption proceedings take place in court
 * Terminating parental rights is when you rights as a parent is taken away from you. In other terms its when you lose custody of your child.
 * Generally, this occurs when a child has been removed for abuse or neglect. This is usually done through a court hearing. The parent has the option of choosing a jury trial or a bench trial.
 * Some parents who have had a child taken into foster care will choose to voluntarily terminate their rights, but that is not always the case.
 * This means that a parent has determined that he/she is unable to care for the child, and is willingly terminating their parental rights.