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Women’s Refugee Commission, ‘Detained or Deported: What About My Children?’ Parental Rights Toolkit, 26 February 2025
Abstract
Detained and deported parents struggle to ensure care for their children, to participate in child welfare and family court processes, and to reunite with their children. This can cause prolonged separation, severe trauma to children, and even termination of a parent’s custody rights.
This toolkit provides detained and deported immigrant and undocumented mothers and fathers with crucial information they need to protect and maintain parental rights and make well-informed, critical decisions regarding the care and welfare of their children. It includes information on how to get a lawyer, how to stay in touch with children, and how to participate in family court or child welfare hearings.
The toolkit also provides officials, attorneys, service providers and family members who work with detained parents and their children with critical information to ensure that family unity and children’s best interests are taken into consideration in immigration decisions.
