![]() To deny a family who agrees to care for DCF kids by DCF’s guidelines because that family will not alter how they properly parent their own children is going too far,” Gregory Magazu said. ![]() ![]() “DCF is in desperate need of strong families to care for the foster children of Massachusetts. The Magazus told DCF they would not use physical punishment on a foster child, but they refused to spare the rod with their own children, girls ages 7 and 9, and a baby. “There is no prohibition on a foster parent using corporal punishment on their own biological children.” “The case raises important issues concerning foster parenting in the commonwealth,” Bodanza said. The Magazus will argue that the DCF improperly denied the couple’s request to become foster/pre-adoptive parents because of their religious beliefs, which condone spanking their children as a form of discipline. 10 will hear arguments from attorney David Bodanza, representing Gregory and Melanie Magazu. The state Supreme Judicial Court on Sept. BOSTON - A Fitchburg couple will ask the state’s highest court to decide whether the state Department of Children & Families unfairly rejected them as foster parents because their religious beliefs support the use of “domestic corporal punishment” to discipline their own children.
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