Adoption & Child Welfare Headlines: December 18, 2009

Adoption
Nation: Foreign adoptions by Americans hit 13-year low
Alabama: Alabama DHR earns adoption placement honor
New Jersey: Vineland mom says adoption laws keep her stuck in Nevada

Child Welfare
World: Study finds orphanages can be a 'viable option'

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Adoption & Foster Care Headlines: December 16, 2009

Adoption
Pennsylvania: DHS says adoptions, reunifications up in Phila. | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12 ...
India: Adoption norms may become easier for women
Nation: Nationwide Event to Find 4ever Families for Children Waiting in Foster Care

Foster Care
Indiana: Agencies sue DCS over double-digit rate cuts
Alaska: State and tribes working to lower the high numbers of Alaskan Native kids in ...

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Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: December 15, 2009

Adoption
Nation: CBS pays for trip in adoption story
Taiwan: More parents giving children up for adoption due to financial woes

Foster Care
Romania: Romania's unwanted children given a chance

Child Welfare
California: With time and help, a mom may learn to conquer anger

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Foster Care Headlines: December 11, 2009

Foster Care
Tennessee: Group renews TN foster-care law fight
Nation: Grandpa Does More Than Baby-Sit
Indiana: United Way Creating Resource Center For Former Foster Youth

Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 10, 2009

Foster Care
Iowa: Foster families to feel pinch of slashed budget
California: Foster kids pull no punches describing cracks in the system
Texas: Texas Baptist church helps foster teens' transition to adulthood
Illinois: As bipolar diagnoses in foster children rise, informed consent becomes a bygone
Child Welfare
Nation: Corporate cheer takes a turn toward charity
Colorado: County officials oppose state takeover of child-protection services
Ireland: Sperm donor wins access to son
Connecticut: Group seeks to block Conn. cuts to children's aid

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: December 9, 2009

Adoption
Guatemala: Guatemala pushes for DNA tests of kids adopted in US
Australia: Lives crushed as adoption program halted
Texas: Lawyer offers help with boy's adoption
India: High court tightens adoption norms for foreigners
Iowa: Man, 93, adopts 64-year-old man
Fiji: More single mothers, abused women place children for adoption in Fiji

Foster Care
Pennsylvania: Nearly 25% of Phila. foster children live with kin | Philadelphia Inquirer ...
Oregon: 2 mistreated children sue Ore. state agency
UK: Sick foster child 'abandoned by the state'

Child Welfare
Wisconsin: Doyle signs bill on Indian child welfare
West Virginia: W.Va. lawmakers weigh child welfare watchdog
Canada: Birth registration protects children

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: December 7, 2009

Adoption
Nebraska: Nebraska high court overturns boy's adoption
Vermont: Vt. adoption to take place through Web cam
Nation: Two Reality Shows Stir Publicity and Anger
Nepal: Embassies push for transparency in adoptions

Foster Care
Indiana: Foster care payments cut by 10 percent
Canada: Alberta foster kids falling behind peers, dropping out of school: study.

Child Welfare
Colorado: Colorado again fails federal test on child protection

Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: December 3, 2009

Foster Care
New Jersey: Wishes Come True For Children In Foster Care
UK: Mother has boy snatched by social workers after refusing doctor's advice to ...

Child Welfare
Florida: Abuse hot line will get a closer DCF review (related to AR)

Adoption & Child Welfare Headlines: December 2, 2009

Adoption
Nation: Term 'embryo adoption' is misleading, medical group says
India: Adoption, not the last option anymore
Wisconsin: CLE Books updates practical guide to voluntary TPR and adoption cases

Child Welfare
Canada: Alberta Appeal Court ruling on child guardianship

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Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: December 1, 2009

Adoption
Nation: Most Adopted Children Are Happy, Healthy
Colorado: Forcibly adopted American Indians torn between cultures
Louisiana: Urging adoption of minority, mixed-race children

Foster Care
California: Documenting life -- and then death
DC: Court Monitor: cfsa's Foster Care Still Fails

Child Welfare
Texas: Rising Removals
Nation: Casey Amendment Would Protect and Ensure Children’s Health

Adoption Headlines: November 24, 2009

Adoption
Nation: One child at a time
New Jersey: NJ adoption groups push for Assembly to consider bill unsealing adoptee birth ...
Canada: CMAJ editorial calls for more kids to be adopted from child welfare system
Vietnam: Unicef queries circumstances of adoptions from Vietnam
Nation: 4500 foster children adopted on National Adoption Day

Find My Family - new series on ABC

Find My Family reunites biological families after adoption. The preview show is Monday. Check it out: http://abc.go.com/shows/find-my-family

Adoption & Child Welfare Headlines: November 19, 2009

Adoption
Hungary: Hungarian Parliament approves unusual adoption bill
Idaho: Group protests adoption decision

Child Welfare
Arkansas: Court upholds seizure of kids from Alamo compound
Australia: Children's advocate call
Canada: Child intervention under review

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 18, 2009

Adoption
Pennsylvania: Adopted as infant, family ties tug at Villanova's Reynolds
UK: Mother wins right to challenge adoption decision
Texas: Law school to promote National Adoption Day
Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan launches 194 proceedings on illegal child adoption

Foster Care
Washington: Yakima program helps foster kids start college
South Carolina: New program gives cars to foster youth
Nebraska: Foster Children Paid To Learn Money Matters

Child Welfare
Massachusetts: Mass. Social Workers Say Commissioner Pushing Too Hard

Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 17, 2009

Foster Care
Australia: Homeless at 18: adult life begins with a thud
Columbus: 120 rally for Rifqa outside courthouse
California: Building families increasingly is the focus of adoptions

Child Welfare
Canada: First Nations children at risk: Madahbee
Michigan: Mich. caseworkers worry about threats from clients
Nation: Colorado State Researcher Studies American Indian Adoption into White Households
International: Counting the world's 'invisible' children

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 12, 2009

Adoption
South Korea: Expats fight to change adoption law
Texas: Viewpoint: Texas freshens 'Why Not Me?' adoption campaign

Foster Care
Oklahoma: Oklahoma kids in DHS care face dangers, report finds

Child Welfare
Colorado: County feeling left out by governor's child abuse task force
Zimbabwe: Child sex abuse rampant in Zimbabwe, says campaigner
World: Child neglect, poverty, abuse among top concerns over children: report
UK: Pupils with special needs to gain right of appeal

Adoption & Child Welfare Headlines: November 11, 2009

Adoption
France: France: Court Rules a Lesbian Can Adopt
Nation: Trafficking reports raise heart-wrenching questions for adoptive parents

Child Welfare
UK: Both Parents To Have The Right To Register Their Child's Birth says Minister ...

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 9, 2009

Adoption
Florida: Governor Crist Applauds Successes of Florida's Explore Adoption Initiative
Nation: Adopted From Korea and in Search of Identity
Ohio: Vanishing family faces
Nation: A New Resource in Lifebook Therapy for Social Workers, Adoptive and Foster ...

Foster Care
Montana: Registry to list potential in-family foster care placements
Michigan: Facing the Mortgage Crisis: Aging Out of Foster Care and Into Affordable Housing

Child Welfare
Connecticut: Racial issues raised at Conn. child welfare agency
Canada: Anishinabek Nation to Develop Own Child Welfare Law
UK: Child protection database goes nationwide

November is National Adoption Month

The Presidential Proclamation of November as National Adoption Month has been posted on the White House website at:
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamations-national-adoption-month

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 5, 2009

Adoption
Florida: NRA seeks to halt adoption agencies from asking about gun ownership
Arkansas: Beebe Concerned About Adoption Restrictions in Arkansas
India: HC rejects plea to probe adoption agency

Foster Care
Florida: Disabled foster child granted US residency
California: Federal Judge Blocks Calif. Foster Care Cuts

Child Welfare
Nation: Toolkits Available to Child Welfare Workers to Better Handle Immigration ...
Nation: Former Federal Juvenile Justice Administrators to Gather in Washington on Nov ...
World: Backgrounder: International Children's Day and Universal Children's Day

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