Solutions to Broken Adoptions May Lie in Gray Areas

Solutions to Broken Adoptions May Lie in Gray Areas - CityLimits.org:

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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Adoption: From an Option to a Mandate

Adoption: From an Option to a Mandate - CityLimits.org:

Adoption is a good outcome for many children in foster care. But not every adoptive parent-child combination is meant to be.
This is the third 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.

One Foster Child's Choice? Not To Be Adopted

One Foster Child's Choice? Not To Be Adopted - CityLimits.org:

S.D. held out hope that her parents would bring her home. That never happened. But avoiding adoption was her choice—and it was a wise one, her lawyer says.

This is a sidebar to 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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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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