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Because children typically do better with birth parents when those birth parents can care for them. A University of Florida study found this was true even for infants born with cocaine in their systems. (See NCCPR Issue Paper 13). It is very difficult to take a swing at a “bad mother” without the blow landing squarely on her child.
