We hope the Senate will understand how the current process blatantly discriminates against families with profoundly intellectually disabled children.
. Democrats, Republicans, Christians, atheists, rich, poor — if ever there was an issue to unite all Texans, this is it.
In the past, ward of state status was generally assigned to the incapacitated who were indigent and had no family to care for them. Giving the child over to the state was a last resort. Not so anymore. For these adult children, parental rights are terminated for no reason, amounting to legal kidnapping requiring the payment of a ransom .
We started the process of obtaining guardianship in early January 2018, but by his birthday, the intrusive, costly and time-consuming process had not been completed by the court. We were allowed to stay only after providing proof that we had started the process to legally care for Caleb as we had been doing since his birth.
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