Mild profanity is used in this film. Some of the humor is at the expense of others. Danny Glover, Tony Danza, Christopher Lloyd, Brenda Fricker, Ben Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jay O. Sanders. When parents cannot take care their child or abuse the child, the state government will remove the child from the parents' home and send him or her to live with foster parents. The vast majority of foster parents, like Ms. Nelson, provide good and loving homes for children.
Parents have a constitutional right to raise their children in the way that they see fit.
This right can be taken away only if the child suffers seriously from neglect or abuse and if a court determines that it is in the best interests of the child to be taken away from the parent. Each state has procedures by which parental rights may be terminated. A parent can waive his or her rights as did Roger's father or else the court, in a contested trial, can decide that neglect or abuse has occurred and is likely to occur in the future. Unless the parent agrees to the termination of those rights, due process of the law requires a hearing with the parent represented by an attorney before a decision is made. Often children are taken from parents only temporarily, for example until the parents can take parenting classes, or until the parent can be treated for alcoholism, drug abuse or mental health problems.