In re Lashawnda M.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Stanley Gartenstein, J.

To all the “horror stories” of the foster care system which have recently surfaced must now be added the frightening matter at bar. What is most disturbing, more so than had this matter involved out-and-out deceit or overreaching, is the fact that the trampling of one mother’s rights to her own child results here from the uninspired application of standard social work platitudes which so often reinforce the sad but crushing reality that, all things being equal, the poor and disenfranchised have less of a chance to keep their own children than the…