Today's guest blogger is Eenang Kang. The New York Times Magazine’s online article “Why a Generation of Adoptees is Returning to South Korea” by Maggie Jones (2015) provides readers with narratives to illustrate a multitude of personal detriments that resulted from international adoption. The article offers brief snippets of historical contents that touches on reasons [...]
Throughout the year we have been following the Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children from its creation through the debates and now to the final report and recommendations that were released in March. All of the recommendations have an impact on either statute, practice, training, the social service information system, the Department of [...]
Throughout the last few days and continuing into next week, the House Health and Human Services (HHS) Finance Committee has been discussing the delete-everything (DE) amendment to HF 1638, which would turn this bill into the omnibus HHS finance bill. The DE amendment is 354 pages long; what follows is the child welfare–related components. This [...]
Today's guest blogger is Claire Hammer. The Need for Representative Care for Indian Children in the Child Welfare System In the 2013 New York Times Article, Focus on Preserving Heritage Can Limit Foster Care for Indians, journalist Dan Frosch examines the Indian Child Welfare Act and how it continues to have a controversial effect, [...]
Today's guest blogger is Andrea Brubaker. “Please Don’t Tell Me I’m Lucky To Be Adopted” Washington Post Written by Shaaren Pine Published: January 9, 2015 Topic: Inter-country adoption Inherent Loss: “Please don’t tell me I was lucky to be adopted” reflects a common sentiment of adoptees who are often given the impression that they [...]
The Star Tribune editorial supporting the Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children, “A start, but press on to prevent child deaths,” (April 2, 2015), should be met with a note of caution: Essentially, the 93 recommendations have substantially changed the emphasis of Child Protection from “well-being to “safety.” In this directive, we have [...]
Today's guest blogger is Shavon Swain. On October 31, 2013 the Chicago Tribune produced an editorial titled, Shut down Internet Adoptions; ‘Re-homing’ is for pets, not children. This editorial was written as lawmakers in Chicago joined forces to discuss the growing, yet disturbing trend of “re-homing”. In this article re-homing is defined as, “...transactions-typically [...]
On Wednesday, April 8, the Senate Committee on Health, Human Services and Housing heard from Ralph McQuarter of the Department of Human Services (DHS) and Jim Koppel, Assistant Commissioner of Child and Family Services at DHS, on proposed child protection funding formulas that are based on recommendations from the Governor's Task Force on the Protection [...]