Without Etta Lappen Davis, and people like her, more families would fail and more children would find themselves living on the streets. As it is, 800 kids a year on average find themselves homeless, with out families, and aged out of … [Read more...]
Why I did not “celebrate” National Adoption Day on November 21
I will be taking an 18 year old legal orphan out to lunch to congratulate her on good grades. I am no longer paid to represent her, but ... for example she has come to terms emotionally with the fact that her adoptive parents dumped … [Read more...]
Time to monitor the pending overhaul of DSS
Besides a zillion places for the proposed change of name to the Department of Children and Families (DCF), any hearing which could lead to a "do not revive" or "pull the plug" order with regard to a child in the custody of the state would … [Read more...]
Why should Guatemalans have to give us their babies to save them from starving?
But then, the focus of child welfare law in these United States, post "The Adoption and Safe Families Act" [also called "ASFA"] is to speed up permanency, by which the law means terminating parental rights and moving children to "better" … [Read more...]
Kentucky holds a summit on child welfare law – why don’t we?
The Chief Justice of the Kentucky Juvenile Court System goes on to say:The changes, which will take effect immediately, coincided with the announcement of an initiative by Lambert to improve Kentucky's courts and child welfare system.The … [Read more...]