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Arkansas Same-Sex Adoption Ban Takes Effect Jan. 1

by Amy Hatch, Posted Dec 4th 2008 11:01AM

An Arkansas law that bans unmarried couples from acting as foster parents or adopting goes into effect Jan. 1, and while it applies to cohabitating heterosexual couples as well, many claim the measure is intended to prohibit gay couples from taking ...
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National network for foster kids

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Mar 6th 2007 8:34AM

I vividly remember Willy from my elementary school. He had punch, bravado, omnipresent snark and enormously sad black eyes. We knew he was a foster child, and with that vague intuition present in kids, we knew his situation was sad. I never knew the ...
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Improvments seen in NJ's foster adoption services

by Amey Stone, Posted Mar 2nd 2007 6:00PM

The Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), a part of the Department of Children and Families (DCF) in my home state of New Jersey has been under a lot of fire over the past few years in the way they oversee the child welfare system, especially ...
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Children missing from foster care

by Heather Craven, Posted Jun 7th 2006 5:05PM

Despite the promise to do so in 2002, the Florida child welfare department has been unable to locate all missing foster children. As of Monday, 652 children have been reported as missing. This number comes as a blow to the state's much plagued ...
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