Officers advocate counseling over foster care in abuse cases

Officers advocate counseling over foster care in abuse cases | Green Bay Press Gazette | greenbaypressgazette.com:

While reports of child abuse and neglect continue to rise, social services officers are making a push to keep more children in their own homes rather than placing them in foster care.
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Foster father convicted of child sex crimes

Foster father convicted of child sex crimes | foster, child, sex - Gaston Gazette:


After spending parts of two days in deliberation, a Gaston County jury found a former foster parent guilty of 14 child sex crimes.

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Feds Spend $499 in Child Support Enforcement for Every $1 for Access and Visitation

Feds Spend $499 in Child Support Enforcement for Every $1 for Access and Visitation « Fathers & Families:

The United States government spends over $499 for child support enforcement for every $1 it spends to enforce access and visitation by non-custodial parents.  That’s the news from a document entitled “Payments to States for Child Support Enforcement and Family Support Programs” issued by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families.  It’s a breakdown of expenditures for various programs in the recent past and budgeted for the near future.  Here’s a link to the document which is an real eye-opener.


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DHHS Budget 2012-ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

DHHS Budget 2012-ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

FOSTER CARE AND PERMANENCY PDF

FY 2012 BUDGET

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Adoptive parents 'shut out' of Veronica's life

Adoptive parents 'shut out' of Veronica's life - WCIV-TV | ABC News 4 - Charleston News, Sports, Weather:

WCIV-TV | ABC News 4 - Charleston News, Sports, Weather

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) -- Veronica Rose will not be coming home to Charleston. The state Supreme Court ruled 3-2 in favor of Veronica staying with her biological father in Oklahoma.

SC Supreme Court upholds return of Native American girl to home in Oklahoma

SC Supreme Court upholds return of Native American girl to home in Oklahoma | The Augusta Chronicle:

COLUMBIA — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the return of a Native American girl adopted by a South Carolina family to her father in Okla­homa, weighing for the first time state adoption law against the federal Indian Child Welfare Act.