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.

February 2012

Adoption Tax Credit Awareness day

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:18-06:00February 13th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, adoption tax credit|

The North American Council on Adoptable Children has created a helpful information sheet to declare today, Monday, February 13, 2012, Adoption Tax Credit Awareness Day. The adoption tax credit was first implemented in 2003 as a tool to help adoptive parents that had adopted children with special needs from the foster care system. For more [...]

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What are the rights of birth fathers?

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:18-06:00February 7th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, birth parents, legal issues|

Several stories in the news lately feature the experiences of fathers fighting for custody of children placed for adoption without their consent. Birth fathers are often left out in discussions about adoption and permanency. In one recent ruling, the Utah Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision that determined a Colorado man was not entitled [...]

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Update on Norway child protection case involving family from India

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:18-06:00February 6th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: child protection, child welfare, foster care|

A case in Norway involving the removal of two Indian children from their parents sparked controversy and allegations of racial and cultural bias. According to the articles, the children's grandparents expressed a desire to care fo the children and accused the Norwegian government of preferring to keep the children in foster care until their 18th [...]

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January 2012

Adoptions in 2007 and 2008

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:19-06:00January 25th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, reports|

The Child Welfare Information Gateway has published a report on the number of children adopted in 2007 and 2008. For those who study adoption, this is an important update, as the last major report by the Children's Bureau looked at the numbers of children adopted in 2000-2001. According to the report: There is no single [...]

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In Norway, cultural differences over child rearing and relative care

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:19-06:00January 24th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: foster care, international child welfare, race and culture|

Over the past few days, several articles have reported this story about an Indian family living in Norway whose children were placed in foster care, sparking accusations of racial and cultural prejudice. According to The Telegraph article that was published today, Norway has accused the parents of over-feeding their children and allowing them to co-sleep. [...]

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Weekly news round-up

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:19-06:00January 6th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: foster care, foster care adoption, health, medical health, well-being|

Each Friday on the Stability, Permanency and Adoption blog we will provide a selection of news from the past week that you may have missed. Today's news round up: In Ontario, Canada, working parents who participate in foster-to adopt programs can participate in parental leave benefits. The Star online reports that even if the child [...]

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Law scholar critiques current child welfare narrative

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:19-06:00January 4th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: child welfare|

Last week, Matthew Fraidin, Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, wrote an essay titled, Changing the Narrative of Child Welfare for the Huffington Post. In the article, Fraidin critiques the current system that harms more than helps children by unnecessarily removing many of them from their parents' homes because of factors related to poverty, [...]

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December 2011

Weekly news round-up

By JaeRan Kim|2016-12-01T19:33:19-06:00December 30th, 2011|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, foster care adoption, international adoption, medical health, research|

Each Friday on the Stability, Permanency and Adoption blog we will provide a selection of news from the past week that you may have missed. Today's news round up: An article published in Pediatrics by Jones et al (2011) assesses the impact of missing or altered birth and medical information on internationally adopted children's health [...]

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