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Old November 19th 04, 08:11 PM
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Foster Kids Focus of National Adoption Day
by Keith Peters, Washington, D. C., correspondent

More than 130,000 children are stuck in foster care—and the system
that's supposed to help them find permanent homes isn't working
very well.

Saturday is National Adoption Day, and adoption advocates are
highlighting the thousands of children stuck in foster care—children
waiting to be adopted but who face myriad challenges.

A new report by the Urban Institute found several barriers to adoption
in most states, ranging from trouble terminating the legal rights
of biological parents to high turnover of welfare staff and poor court
case management. Rita Soronen of the Dave Thomas
Foundation for Adoption said when the states, courts and child welfare
systems don't talk to each other, there will be problems.

The key, she said, is "making sure that these systems that are
supposed to be looking after children are working as effectively and
as efficiently as possible."

"(I support) making sure that they've got everyone working on behalf
of their best interest from the court—to the social worker to the
recruiters for families to the families that step up to the plate to
adopt these kids," she explained.

While think-tanks do studies and politicians debate, however, almost
130,000 children are stuck in foster care, and Dr. Wade Horn,
assistant secretary for children and families at the U. S. Department
of Health and Human Services, said they need loving families to
adopt them.

"What we should worry about at the end of the day is the well-being of
children," he said. "It's not good for kids to spend years and
years in foster care."

HHS is looking for families, he added, who have enough love in their
hearts to open their homes.

Horn said public funds can help a family both during and after an
adoption. In many cases families that adopt a child out of foster
care are eligible for a federal cash subsidy to offset some of the
costs involved in the process.
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