While there's disagreement among child welfare officials and advocates about all we can do to prevent broken adoptions, there is consensus on a few common-sense steps.
This is the fourth and final chapter in our series about broken adoptions—cases in which a child adopted out of the foster-care system returns to that system or otherwise leaves the family that adopted them.
For parent advocates, the answer to the problem of broken adoptions is clear: More needs to be done to keep families together.
It's not just about investing more in preventive services, executive director of the Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP), says, but about recognizing that "in the most fundamental of ways," we as a society are "not doing enough to build communities that are conducive to healthy family life…[including] access to living wage employment, decent affordable housing, safe schools, health care. This is why families fall apart," says Arsham.
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