Free DNA tests piloted in family courts to clear up paternity disputes

Free DNA tests piloted in family courts to clear up paternity disputes | Law | The Guardian:

Justice minister Simon Hughes reveals moves aimed at tackling influx of unrepresented litigants following cuts to legal aid

The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services | Nancy Schaefer

The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services | Nancy Schaefer - Kidjacked:

From the legislative desk of Senator Nancy Schaefer 50th District of Georgia

My introduction into child protective service cases was due to a grandmother in an adjoining state who called me with her tragic story. Her two granddaughters had been taken from her daughter who lived in my district. Her daughter was told wrongly that if she wanted to see her children again she should sign a paper and give up her children. Frightened and young, the daughter did. I have since discovered that parents are often threatened into cooperation of permanent separation of their children.

Human trafficking - American Style: Straight from the Courts to Nations Across the Globe

Human trafficking - American Style: Straight from the Courts to Nations Across the Globe:

Have sexually abused kids become proven assets for the family courts to traffic into sexual slavery in foreign lands? Why do courts give sexually assaulted children to their abusers in 85% of the cases while placing parents who dare to report abuse on monitored visitations with their own children?   Concerned parents want to know.

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Huckabee Set to Interview Justina Pelletier

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Huckabee Set to Interview Justina Pelletier | Fox News Insider:

It was a heartbreaking story that was finally resolved last week after a teenager was taken from her family and placed in Massachusetts state custody amid a bitter dispute over her medical condition. Now 16, Justina Pelletier has been reunited with her family and will speak out in her first TV interview, this Saturday with Mike Huckabee.

S.D. tribes look to establish foster care services on reservations

S.D. tribes look to establish foster care services on reservations:

Five South Dakota tribes have asked the federal government for financial assistance to help operate their own foster care services.

The federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), passed by Congress in 1978, sought to keep American Indian foster children with American Indian families. Yet more than 35 years later, 80 percent of tribal children are still showing up in white foster homes in South Dakota.

20 Random Foster Care facts

20 Random Foster Care facts:

What do you know about foster care?

I was a foster child. I aged out after floating through more than 30 homes. I never got adopted. I saw the system in some pretty bad ways. 

The Perils of Adopting From Foster Care...Adoption Gone Wrong

The Perils of Adopting From Foster Care...Adoption Gone Wrong:

Adopter Beware

So, you want to adopt from foster care. Kudos to you. Adopting from foster care can be a wonderful thing.
It can also be an event that will scar you for the rest of you life.