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Stability, Permanency, and Adoption

The Stability, Permanency, and Adoption (SPA) Blog was developed by CASCW as a way to inform child welfare professionals and others about practice, research, and policy issues regarding permanency and adoption of children and youth.

April 2013

Craiglist ad: Looking to Adopt Your Baby

By |2016-12-01T19:33:07-06:00April 29th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

This guest blog post was written by Nina Pena. This article voices and shares the strong desire to adopt a child and obtain a family. It gives details of the website, craigslist.org, and how it is allowing the solicitation of children. This is especially for parents who are trying to adopt. It explains that craigslist [...]

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Visits don’t always lead to adoption

By |2016-12-01T19:33:07-06:00April 26th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

This guest blog post was written by Tenzin Dolkar. Gross , J. (2007). Gifts from ukraine. [ News Documentary]. The New York Times. The process of International adoption is long, emotional, complicated, and an arduous journey for most families who decides to adopt through this route. However, when the adoption is finalized and the parents [...]

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Vladimir Putin Is Concerned With The Human Rights Of Orphans In The U.S.

By |2016-12-01T19:33:07-06:00April 25th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

This guest blog post was written by Vincent Loera. Steve Gutterman (March 2, 2013) of Reuters wrote an article depicting a Russian rally in support of the U.S. ban on adopting Russian children. The rally was also a call for Kris Shatto a Russian adoptee to be returned to Russia after his brother, Max, had [...]

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Evanston couple must give up Korean baby

By |2016-12-01T19:33:07-06:00April 24th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

This guest blog was written by Erin Bachaus. Black, L. (2013). Evanston couple must give up Korean baby. Chicago Tribune. [Photo by Abel Uribe/ Chicago Tribune] An Illinois couple who adopted a newborn daughter from South Korea are now being forced by the South Korean government to return the child to her native country due [...]

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Reforming International Adoption Practices in Guatemala

By |2016-12-01T19:33:07-06:00April 23rd, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

This guest blog post was written by Erin Lysne. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) The Wall Street Journal published an editorial on February 4th 2013 by Mary Anastasia O'Grady called Guatemala's Inhumane Adoption Law: A U.S.-backed policy bars thousands of children from being given homes in America. In the online version of the article there is also [...]

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Suggestions to help adopted children understand their placement history

By |2016-12-01T19:33:08-06:00April 22nd, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

This guest post was written by Katie Johnson. In the March/April 2013 issue of the Adoptive Families magazine Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky wrote the article "7 Ways to Give Your Child a History." This article discusses the need of older adopted children to understand their story of placement and what it means when they [...]

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Investigation of Russian adopted child’s death

By |2016-12-01T19:33:08-06:00April 19th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , |

This guest blog post was written by Kari Torborg. [Photo of Max Shatto (Maksim Kuzmin) who died on January 21.] The article which is the focus of this blog assignment is entitled "All eyes on Texas town at center of Russian adoption drama". It was published on February 22, 2013 by Richard Solash with Radio [...]

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Does Russian adoption ban hurt kids?

By |2016-12-01T19:33:08-06:00April 18th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

This guest blog post was written by Linda Gross. This link is to an opinion article found on CNN dated January 17th, 2013, written from the perspective of a University of Minnesota woman who, in the process of trying to adopt a girl from Russia with her husband, has negatively experienced the recent ban on [...]

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