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March 2016

The Child Exchange

By |2016-12-01T19:32:52-06:00March 2nd, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Today's guest blogger is Holly Gilbert. In 2013 Reuters did an investigation into a phenomenon known as “Re-homing” and published it in an article titled The Child Exchange.  Many of the children involved in this re-homing were children who were “hard to place” children in the foster care system, were more likely to have higher [...]

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April 2014

New WI law bans individuals from advertising their children for adoption online

By |2016-12-01T19:33:02-06:00April 21st, 2014|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , , |

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker answers questions from reporters on April 16, 2014, in Madison, Wis. Source: Scott Bauer/AP Wisconsin's Response to Re-Homing In the wake of the 2013 Reuters investigative report on "re-homing"—which brought to light the virtually hidden practice of unregulated and unsafe use of online forums to ask strangers to take one's adopted [...]

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