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Foster Kids Focus of National Adoption Day
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. http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0034589.cfm Defend your civil liberties! Get information at http://www.aclu.org, become a member at http://www.aclu.org/join and get active at http://www.aclu.org/action. |
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