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• National Adoption Month: Making Adoptions Affordable

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 453
  “Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Family” is a series of conversations and blog posts celebrating National Adoption Month . This post in the series comes from Alison Delpercio, HRC Family & Workplace Projects coordinator. Have you ever considered adoption? Do you know someone who has adopted? Then you ...
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• Nat. Adoption Month Part 6

  
  Wee Ones Little Things — Authority: 117
  SPEAK up for themOpen your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the unfortunate. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the afflicted and needy. -Proverbs 31:8-9“I didn’t think a whole lot of it at the time. I received an email about a teenage girl from Ethiopia who needed an adoptive ...
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• Foster father accused of abuse

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Foster father accused of abuse Police in Kendallville arrested a foster parent Tuesday on a charge he molested an 8-year-old girl. Note: Apparently another pedophile using the system to get access to children.
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• Report: Treatment of kids in DHS care immoral

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Report: Treatment of kids in DHS care immoral A child welfare expert says five foster children in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services were scalded in bath water, sexually molested, beaten with tree switches and belts and hit in the mouth - a pattern of abuse the expert called "outrageous and ...
  18 hours ago

• What If You Didn’t Have a Family?

  
  Lipstick to Crayons — Authority: 425
  Yesterday, I participated in a Twitter conversation/conference about adoption from foster care, and I learned a lot — particularly about an organization called AdoptUsKids. It is the mission of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Washington State Extended Families

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Washington State Extended Families Working for family preservation
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• Loves Park foster father faces abuse charges

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Loves Park foster father faces abuse charges A Loves Park foster father could spend the rest of his life in prison.
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• Lincoln teen suspected of sexually assaulting foster sister

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Lincoln teen suspected of sexually assaulting foster sister A Lincoln woman told police Saturday that her 15-year-old son had sexually assaulted her foster daughter the night before.
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• Missing Foster Child, 9, Found

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Missing Foster Child, 9, Found The Detroit police said they have found a 9-year-old foster child who had been missing since Monday afternoon. Note: Imagine that, kids sneak off on real parents too.
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• National Adoption Awareness Month Theme: Irony of Ironies!

  
  FAMILY PRESERVATION ADVOCACY — Authority: 429
  This years theme for National Adoption Month--which occurs in November--is " You dont have to be perfect to be a perfect parent."  See it here at Child Welfare Info Gateway. I remember first hearing that theme at the Ethica/Donaldson Conference last year. We previewed several PSAs using that theme to encourage ...
  2 days ago

• CR’s new push for more foster care in Tennessee

  
  NCCPR Child Welfare Blog — Authority: 461
  The group that so arrogantly calls itself "Childrens Rights" is back in federal court in Tennessee. Once again, CR is trying to ensure that nothing gives the judge in Anderson County, whose fanaticism about child removal may be unexceeded anywhere in America, even a moments pause about tearing apart family after ...
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• Report Finds Thousands of Kids Stuck in Overburdened Foster Care System

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Report Finds Thousands of Kids Stuck in Overburdened Foster Care System Foster care is supposed to be a short term solution for kids waiting to either go back home or get adopted by a new family. But a new report by a child advocacy group depicts an overburdened system thats causing thousands of children to get ...
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• Conference on minorities in foster care

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Conference on minorities in foster care Figures show a majority of the children placed in foster care in Erie County are minorities.
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• Advocates make 2nd attempt to stop foster care law

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Advocates make 2nd attempt to stop foster care law An advocacy group is making a second attempt at getting the courts to block a state law penalizing counties that put a high percentage of children in foster care.
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• Report Says Foster System Keeps Children Too Long

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Report Says Foster System Keeps Children Too Long Margaret, a 15-year-old, was placed in five different foster homes in a single year. Calvin, 18, spent 15 years being shuttled among his mother, aunt and a residential treatment center. Devin, a 13-year-old, has been in foster care his entire life, even though he ...
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• Local Foster Parent Accused of Abusing Children

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Local Foster Parent Accused of Abusing Children Walter Hammond, 38, is charged with three counts of Aggravated Battery of a Child, causing permanent disfigurement. Note: How can these foster monsters to something like this to these poor sweet innocent children?
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• Report Says Foster System Keeps Children Too Long

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The advocacy group Children’s Rights said thousands of foster city children no longer had hope of returning home or getting adopted.
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• THE DSS MYSTERY: WHERE DID MONEY GO? (MECKLENBURG COUNTY DSS, NORTH CAROLINA)

  
  Stop Corrupt DSS — Authority: 427
  The DSS mystery: Where did money go?   E-mails show officials suspected misspending, but they have never said who was at fault for disappearance of $162,000 in donations for needy kids   http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/1044222.html By Fred Clasen-Kelly frkelly@charlotteobserver.com ...
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• STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SLAMS DHHR OVER FOSTER CARE SYSTEM

  
  Stop Corrupt DSS — Authority: 427
  State Supreme Court justice slams DHHR over foster care system   http://www.register-herald.com/statenews/local_story_306120858.html The Associated Press By Tom Breen Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON — For the second time this year, a state Supreme Court justice has blasted the Department of ...
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• DSHS TO PAY $525,001 TO SETTLE RECORDS LAWSUIT

  
  Stop Corrupt DSS — Authority: 427
  DSHS to pay $525,001 to settle records lawsuit   Abused children: Agency admits to errors   http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/1027189.html?mi_pluck_action=comment_submitted&qwxq=4762396#Comments_Container BRAD SHANNON; The Olympian The state Department of Social and Health Services ...
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