Exploring the complex dynamics between adoption, child abuse, and family violence, and the implications for adoptive families and social services

Having met while working at a children's charity, Naomi and Martin believed that if any couple had the skills needed to provide an adopted child with the right mix of love, nurturing and guidance, it was them.

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After the Sandusky child abuse scandal rocked Pennsylvania, the state required more professionals to report suspected child abuse. That led to a strained child welfare system and more unsubstantiated reports against low-income families.

Diane Baird labeled her method for assessing families the “Kempe Protocol” after the renowned University of Colorado institute where she worked for decades. The school has yet to publicly disavow it.

The child welfare system strives to provide children and adolescents in foster care with a safe, nurturing environment through kinship and nonkinship foster care placement with the goal of either reunification with birth parents or adoption. Pediatricians can support families who care for children and adolescents who are fostered and adopted while attending to children’s medical needs and helping each child attain their developmental potential. Although this report primarily focuses on children in the US child welfare system, private and internationally adopted children often have similar needs.

UPDATE (2/16/2023) -- Columbus Police announced Friday morning that police discovered the body of 5-year-old Darnell Taylor in a sewage drain near Cleveland.

Foster parents, tasked with the 24-7 care of often-traumatized children, show up for parent-teacher meetings, ferry their charges to doctor’s appointments, supervise homework and serve up cuddles. Many work closely with struggling biological parents in hopes of an eventual reunion. These days, many foster parents are being asked to do even more, as an increasing […]

A movement to change the child welfare system asks caseworkers to speak up.

The 147-page report, “‘If I Wasn’t Poor, I Wouldn’t Be Unfit’: The Family Separation Crisis in the US Child Welfare System,” documents how conditions of poverty, such as a family’s struggle to pay rent or maintain housing, are misconstrued as neglect, and interpreted as evidence of an inability and lack of fitness to parent. Human Rights Watch and the ACLU found significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in child welfare involvement. Black children are almost twice as likely to experience investigations as white children and more likely to be separated from their families.

More than 3 million U.S. children were involved in an intervention for suspected abuse or neglect in a single year. Advocates say a disproportionate impact on families of color makes reform urgent.

In many states, adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for custody of their children.

In many states, adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for custody of their children.

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One death came after family courts ordered a child to live with a paedophile, a BBC investigation finds.

A bill introduced before Congress would give states greater authority in deciding whether to seek the termination of parental rights in child welfare cases.

Michael and Catherine Burke allege that the state’s Department of Children and Families discriminated against them for their Catholic viewpoints.

If parents are unable to take care of their children, the latter may end up in foster care. But what if the authorities believe that the couple will never be able to take care of their children? Such a case may end up in forced adoption.

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Explore data about state approaches, children in care, and how money is invested in foster care vs. preventive and permanency services.

2020 Basic Rate Foster Care Subsidy Payments New York State Foster Care Boarding Rates   Foster parents are entitled to a monthly payment allowance intended to help them cover a portion of the costs incurred by caring for children in their home. Basic foster care payments are made to foster parents who provide care for a child

Their parents are generally well-educated and affluent. They receive more time and educational resources from those parents than the average child gets from theirs. Yet they get into more conflicts with their classmates at school, display relative little interest and enthusiasm about learning tasks, and register only middling academic performance. About whom are we talking? Adopted children. This is the paradox of adoption in America.

ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF Children Adopted from Foster Care: Child and Family Characteristics, Adoption Motivation, and Well-Being May 2011