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January 31, 2016 by Randy Wallace MyFoxHouston.com Excerpts: When it comes to protecting children the state agency in charge of that has financial incentives to take kids away from their parents. “For every child that’s taken into custody for at least 6 months is covering 25 peoples’ paychecks,” says veteran family law attorney Julie Ketterman. Judges, attorneys, case workers, therapists and …
Frequently Asked Questions Why are so many children placed in orphanages in countries like Nepal? The initial rise in orphanages in developing countries cannot be attributed to the same factors. Context specific history, poverty, natural disasters, epidemics (such as AIDS) and conflicts are all things connected to the global rise in orphanages. However, in most cases, one of the reasons …
Families in a poor mountainous region have had children seized, and apparently sold, in the name of China’s one-child policy By Shangguan Jiaoming, October 2011 (Shaoyang) – On a long journey in search of his lost child, Yang Libing carries a single photograph. It’s a faded snapshot of his daughter Yang Ling, who this year turns seven years old. Family …
Chris Reynolds is fighting to get his daughter back after he says she was adopted without his knowledge or permission. INDEPENDENCE, MO (KCTV) –A father is fighting to get his daughter back after he says she was adopted without his knowledge or permission. Chris Reynolds hasn’t seen his 3-year-old daughter, Brooke, in more than a year. He and his other children write …
Aboriginal grandmothers(link is external) have protested to Australian politicians about the increasing removal of Aboriginal children from their families to be placed in homes or with foster families, many of them non-Indigenous. Grandmothers were among about 100 Indigenous protesters who marched from the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra to parliament house on Friday, 13 February. In 2008, then [Labor] prime minister, Kevin …
