Today's guest post is Rachele Willy. ABC News shared an article entitled “Same-Sex Adoptions Next Frontier for LGBT Advocates,” which can be found here and looks at barriers for same-sex couples to adopt throughout the United States. Only 19 states and the District of Columbia permit same-sex couples to adopt jointly, 13 states and D.C. allow [...]
Today's guest blogger is Libby Onichiri. Source: Foster Kids in Limbo: The Effects of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children on the Permanency of Children in Foster Care” report to the Annie E. Casey Foundation by Professor Vivek Sankaran of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic at the University Of Michigan Law School. The [...]
Today's guest blogger is Robin Johnson. The following is a summarization from a chapter titled “Family Reunification and Kinship Care,” retrieved from The Child Welfare Challenge: Policy, Practice, and Research; written by Peter J. Pecora, James K. Whittaker, Anthony N. Maluccio, Richard P. Barth, and Diane DePanfilis, with Robert D. Plotnick (2009). As the title [...]
Today's guest blogger is Carlotta Crawford-Ojo. The Extended Family of My Two Open Adoptions by Suz Redfearn, February 21, 2014 This article walks the readers through the journey of a married couple who after so many years of fiercely trying to have a baby with their own coils of DNA, finally throws in the towel [...]
Today's guest post is Jinyou Kim. Beyond HallYu published an article titled ‘The Drop Box’ and the realities of motherhood in South Korea by an unknown writer on June 14, 2013. In this article, the author brought an issue of the “baby box” in South Korea. The baby box was set up by Pastor Lee [...]
Today's guest blogger is Zoua Xiong. Adoption and Mental Illness is written by Arline Kaplan and published on the Psychiatric Times website in January 26, 2009. The article addresses the controversial issue as to whether there is psychological risk to adoption. The study was completed by researchers at the University of Minnesota with a sample [...]
Today's guest blogger is Derek Zumbach. The practice of “re-homing” is a relatively new and dangerous form of unregulated adoption that puts children, often incredibly high needs children, at risk of serious harm. This extensive report published in September of 2013 by the Reuters news organization looks into this practice to shed some light on [...]
This guest post was written by Tarynn Anderson. Photo by Mark Holm for the New York Times The article, Focus on Preserving Heritage Can Limit Foster Care for Indians, by Dan Frosch, published on January 26, 2013 in the New York Times, explores the importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act and how [...]
