Adoption Numbers in Question

Adoption Numbers in Question - CityLimits.org:

Sixteen years ago the federal government put new pressure on states to facilitate adoptions. But it never bothered to track how many of those adoptions fail.
This is the second 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.

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Growing Concern Over Broken Adoptions

Growing Concern Over Broken Adoptions - CityLimits.org:

For more than a decade national child welfare policy has encouraged timely adoptions as way to stabilize the lives of kids in foster care. But the system is challenged when a child's new home proves to be a bad fit.

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Foster father accused in baby's death had drug arrest

Foster father accused in baby's death had drug arrest - Ukiah Daily Journal:

The foster father accused of beating a 5-month-old baby girl to death in December while she was in his care was in Mendocino County Superior Court Friday to schedule a future appearance.

Wilson L. Tubbs III, 38, faces a charge of child abuse resulting in death, which carries the same weight as murder, according to the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office.

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LOIS HENRY: County coughs up $1.4 million to wronged parent

LOIS HENRY: County coughs up $1.4 million to wronged parent - BakersfieldCalifornian.com:

Kern County's Child Protective Services department has cost county taxpayers another $1.4 million. That's the settlement amount granted last month to a local doctor in a case where CPS illegally took her two children. The county did this in February, 2011, without a warrant and, as it turns out, for no legitimate reason.

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Trial Set For Abuse Lawsuit Involving Thousands Of Mass. Foster Children

Trial Set For Abuse Lawsuit Involving Thousands Of Mass. Foster Care Children « CBS Boston:

 "BOSTON (AP) — A trial is set to begin in a lawsuit alleging the abuse and neglect of thousands of Massachusetts children in foster care.
Opening statements are scheduled Tuesday in federal court in a class-action lawsuit filed in 2010 by the national advocacy group "

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Editorial | Open family and juvenile courts

Editorial | Open family and juvenile courts | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com:
Lawmakers for years have dabbled with the notion of lifting the confidentiality of Kentucky’s juvenile and family courts. It’s time for them to put an end to the secrecy that protects the system and adults who run it but does very little — if anything — to protect the youths and families caught up in it.

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