child is important, but ultimately the .health, welfare, and safety of the child must be paramount. Being a parent requires parental obligations to care for the child, specifically to ensure the child’s life, safety, well-being, and physical, mental, and emotional health. See § 39.806(l)(c), Fla. Stat. (2016). Contrary to S.M.’s assertion, termination of parental rights does not always end in eviscerating the bond between the parent and child forever. In looking at the best interests of the child, the Legislature has left open the possibility of allowing continued visitation between a biological parent and child after the parent’s rights have been terminated. See § 39.811(7)(b), Fla. Stat. (2016); Fla. Dep't of Children & Family Servs. v. A.D., 904 So.2d 480, 482 (Fla. 1st DCA 2005) (<HOLDING>) These options could alleviate any concern of
holding the termination of parental rights does not necessarily mean that all bonds are broken between parent and child a court may allow some continued communication between the parent and children pending adoption and even after adoption if it determines that such contact is in the childrens best interest holding a parent is excused from maintaining contact with his or her children when the failure to maintain contact is caused by the involuntary confinement of the parent and the parent is precluded from contacting the children during such confinement holding that natural parents consent for an adoption is required so long as the parent complies with the duty to support for any period during the oneyear preceding the filing of the adoption petition recognizing that termination of parental rights can be accomplished only by resort to chapters 63 adoption and 39 termination of parental rights and any attempt by a parent to contract away the childs right to support is void and unenforceable as contrary to public policy holding that publicagency adoption termination of mentallyill biological parents rights that mandated visitation between biological parent and child inappropriate because applicable termination statutes spoke in absolute terms noting however that continued contact between biological parent and child possible on voluntary basis without court order