California

March 2013

Supporting foster youth parents

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00March 1st, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: California, foster care, teen parents, teen pregnancy|

California Senator Leland Yee is sponsoring a bill that would help support foster youth who are parents in the state. The bill would help foster youth raising children with resources to help them stay in school, provide needed parenting and child care. In the Pleasanton Weekly, Leland states that "parenting and pregnant youth are 200% [...]

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July 2012

Is there a limit to the number of parents a child can have?

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:15-06:00July 11th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: California, child welfare, courts, legal issues|

One of the long-held myths about adoption has been that children become confused about the concept of having more than one set of parents. This became one of the rationales used to amend birth certificates identifying adoptive parents as birth parents once an adoption finalization has occurred in the United States, and to justify closed [...]

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