In the movie, Miles says his daughter is removed and put into foster care because he had to work extra to pay for medical bills after his wife died. They move her from foster home to foster home so he can't see her again.
I adopted two girs through foster care. When kids are removed, the primary goal is to help the parents so that the kids can be returned home. In his case, he was obviously able to provide a nice clean home. Family Services could have provided subsidized day care or arranged financial assistance to help him with his bills. He should have also been allowed visitation until they made sure he was ready for her to return or building enough of a case to determine he was unfit (which seemed unlikely based on the conduct portrayed for him in the movie),
In our case, the biological parenta simply could not care for themselves let alone the kids, but it took about three years of intervention and monitoring before the biological parents' rights were removed and we were able to adopt. What Family Services did in this movie seemed more like kidnapping rather than intervention to keep the child safe.
I adopted two girs through foster care. When kids are removed, the primary goal is to help the parents so that the kids can be returned home. In his case, he was obviously able to provide a nice clean home. Family Services could have provided subsidized day care or arranged financial assistance to help him with his bills. He should have also been allowed visitation until they made sure he was ready for her to return or building enough of a case to determine he was unfit (which seemed unlikely based on the conduct portrayed for him in the movie),
In our case, the biological parenta simply could not care for themselves let alone the kids, but it took about three years of intervention and monitoring before the biological parents' rights were removed and we were able to adopt. What Family Services did in this movie seemed more like kidnapping rather than intervention to keep the child safe.