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SOURCE: Slate
11/21/2022
The Clinton-Era Law that Still Devastates Black Families
by Dorothy E. Roberts
The Adoption and Safe Families Act mandated state intervention to protect children from neglect, but did nothing to ensure an economic and social safety net to mitigate hardship. The result, spurred by anti-Black tropes, was an acceleration of family breakup by state agencies.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/18/2022
Our Adoption Policies have Harmed Children
by Mical Raz
Changes adopted under the Clinton administration elevated the adoption of children from foster care as a policy goal, which had the effect of marginalizing biological parents from the process, sometimes contrary to children's best interests.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
8/25/2022
Safe Haven "Baby Boxes" are a Medieval Horror
by Maria Laurino
"As generations of twentieth-century Italian mothers and their children can attest, giving a woman no choice but to anonymously surrender her baby is a route to ruined lives."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/6/2022
Adoption System Serves People Who Want Babies, Not Women Who Birth Them
by Gretchen Sisson
Despite Samuel Alito's rhetoric, adoption as practiced in the US does not resolve the basic conflicts inherent in unwanted pregnancy, which overlap historically with racial and class inequalities in the nation.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/20/19
Native children benefit from knowing their heritage. Why attack a system that helps them?
by Bob Ferguson and Fawn Sharp
For 40 years, the Indian Child Welfare Act has protected the best interests of Native children and helped preserve the integrity of tribal nations across the United States.
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5/13/18
The Shameful Practice of Buying and Selling Babies Doesn't Only Happen Overseas, but Here in the US, too
by Janet Golden
In what might be called infant economics, here’s a brief history of the black market baby trade.