Rethinking Foster Care
Molly McGrath Tierney at TEDxBaltimore 2014 Molly McGrath Tierney was the Director for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, managing the City’s child welfare and public assistance programs. Over the past six years, she has led a massive reform effort to dramatically improve the impact of services to vulnerable citizens of Baltimore. Molly’s work is considered a national model …
Lid lifts on the anguish of China’s stolen generation
TIANXI, China: The man from family planning regularly prowled around the mountaintop village, looking for nappies on clotheslines and listening for the cry of a hungry newborn. One day in spring 2004, he presented himself at Yang Shuiying’s doorstep and commanded: ”Bring out the baby.” Yang wept and argued, but, alone with her four-month-old daughter, she was in no position …
Equal Rights for All: It’s Finally Time for Adopted People, Too
As our country has focused enormous attention in recent days on the rights of one minority, gay men and lesbians, we continue (alas) to give short-shrift to the decades-long effort to achieve equality for millions of people in another segment of our population: Americans who were adopted into their families. Change is in the air, however, and a grassroots adoption-reform …
Exposing Adoption Lies & Propaganda #adoptiontrafficking
How Much Are American Children Worth? Jennifer Lyn Wachowski exposes lies and propaganda of the multi-billion dollar adoption industry, the selling of newborns to the highest bidders. Amber and Jennifer discuss the intricacies of adoption law – it is in the best interest of adoption attorneys and law-makers to support adoption because selling the babies of poor, marginalized mothers is …
