Campbell v. Bartholomew County Department of Public Welfare

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a court is not required to place children on a shelf until a parent is able to care for them properly
• holding that, where parents had “failed to correct their behavior for years,” the trial court could not be expected to “place [a child] on a shelf” until parents were able to care for the child
• stating that the court was unwilling to put the children “on a shelf” until their mother was capable of caring for them
• expressing an unwillingness to put a child “on a shelf” until a parent is ready
• noting an unwillingness to put a child “on a shelf” until parents are capable of providing appropriate care
• appellate court “unwilling to put [child] on shelf until [parents] are capable of caring for her appropriately”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).